Posted Saturday, August 10th, 2019
When Scott Faucher was named Assumption’s new head coach on May 14th, he took over a program that had one available scholarship in the class of 2019. Three months later, he and his staff have built a strong three-player class comprised entirely of players from the local ranks. The full scholarship went to Connecticut native Isiah Gaiter, who graduated from Sacred Heart High School in 2018 before heading to West Virginia for a post-graduate year at Huntington Prep. Gaither had…
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Posted Saturday, August 10th, 2019
Incoming Northfield Mount Hermon post-graduate Sam Silverstein made a verbal commitment to Harvard earlier this week. A graduate of New Trier High School in Illinois, Silverstein's senior season was cut short after breaking his wrist in February. His team was 22-3 prior to his injury but won just one of their five remaining games according to the Chicago Tribune. Now fully healthy, the 6-foot-6 wing starred with Fundamental U on the grassroots circuit and is poised to be an immediate…
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![Summer Stock-Risers - 2020]( "Summer Stock-Risers - 2020")
Posted Friday, August 9th, 2019
The summer recruiting period has come to an end and while this year’s schedule was very different due to the NCAA calendar, there were still plenty of prospects who managed to completely change their recruitment over the course of the last few months. Stock-risers, by their definition, aren’t necessarily the most highly recruited prospects in the class (although some of them now are), but they are the prospects who have played their way into significantly higher recruitment than they previously had. With…
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Posted Thursday, August 8th, 2019
NERR'z Zack Sandberg returned for the second week of the "Be a Baller, not a Bully" camp in Waterbury this week. This is the second year of the co-ed camp which was founded and is run by Ta'Quan "Tootie" Zimmerman, a local product who still plays professionally in various international leagues. The morning session is filled with skills and drills while the afternoon consists of "run and shoot games" but the anti-bullying theme is a constant over the course of…
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Posted Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
An already loaded UConn 2019 recruiting class picked up one more late addition on Tuesday when Richard Springs made a verbal commitment to join the Huskies in this fall's freshman class. Springs graduated from the MacDuffie School in the spring and was set to do a post-graduate year at Brewster Academy, remaining in the same 2020 class he had been listed in since he arrived at MacDuffie in the fall of 2017, but ultimately decided to join Connecticut a year…
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Posted Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
St. Thomas More head coach Jere Quinn is undoubtedly one of the godfathers of prep school basketball. The Chancellors program, and the St. Thomas More School itself, has very literally been his life's work and he has plenty to show for his 41 years on the sidelines including over 1,000 career wins, a nomination to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and a countless number of lives he's changed in the process. This spring though, Quinn was hospitalized and diagnosed…
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Posted Monday, August 5th, 2019
South Kent School forward Josh Reaves announced his verbal commitment to Mount St. Mary's on Saturday. Reaves is a native of Hamden, Connecticut who began his career at Hamden High School before transferring to South Kent last year. He played his grassroots basketball with DTX Elite and was a standout at the second NEPSAC Summer Showcase at Hamden Hall in June. 100% Committed!!! @SKSHoops @Noelromanhfd @DTXBasketball @NERRHoops pic.twitter.com/bzFOP7e2gv — Josh Reaves (@joshuareaves_) August 3, 2019 "The love and sincere interest…
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Posted Sunday, August 4th, 2019
New England's top ranked rising sophomore is leaving the region. Shy Odom, who spent his freshman year at Beaver Country Day School while playing with BABC's u16 team, announced via his instagram account that he will be transffering to Sierra Canyon High School in California. Sierra Canyon has annually featured top talent in recent years but next season's roster is shaping up to be especially compelling given the arrival of Lebron James Jr. and Zaire Wade, the sons of Lebron…
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![McCrory A10 Bound]( "McCrory A10 Bound")
Posted Saturday, August 3rd, 2019
NE6 and incoming Woodstock Academy post-graduate Cairo McCrory made a verbal commitment to the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Friday. Welcome to the party♥️ pic.twitter.com/J9RSr2afdE — Cairo McCrory (@TheRealCairo21) August 2, 2019 A Connecticut native who spent the last two years at the Master's School in West Simsbury after beginning his career at Northwest Catholic High School, McCrory becomes the fourth Woodstock product to commit to UMass in the last two classes as Tre Mitchell, Preston Santos, and T.J. Weeks…
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Posted Friday, August 2nd, 2019
In yesterday’s piece “Where did you play this summer?” we detailed how the new NCAA recruiting calendar, and consequent limitations on getting exposure to college coaches, created more need than ever for student-athletes to make sure they were in the right places, both before and during the live periods. The amount of coaches at a particular event during the live period provides immediate feedback about the quality of the exposure. The reality though is that coaches follow talent, not the…
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