Posted Saturday, September 15th, 2018
Gould Academy guard Boo Buie made a verbal commitment to Northwestern on Friday night while on their campus for his official visit. Northwestern became the first high-major program to offer Buie a scholarship this summer after Buie was instrumental in the Mass Rivals' run to the finals of the Adidas Summer Championships in Los Angeles and followed that up with another strong showing at the Prime Event in Orlando. The upstate New York native arrived in New England last year…
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Posted Friday, September 14th, 2018
The 11th annual Elite 75 Showcase – Frosh/Soph Edition tips on Saturday at the University Sports Complex in Hanover, Massachusetts. Like its ten predecessors, this year’s event is absolutely loaded with the top young talent in the region…and even some from beyond New England’s borders. Over the course of the last few weeks we’ve looked back on those ten previous events and traced the origins of players who have gone on to become some of New England’s biggest stars including…
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Posted Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
Wilbraham and Monson Academy and New Heights guard Idan Tretout announced his verbal commitment to Harvard University on Wednesday. His decision comes on the heels of a big season in the UAA. He averaged over 11 points while 49% from the floor and 39% from behind the arc this spring, while also adding just under 4 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game for New Heights. He continued to play at a high level this summer, helping the team to the championship…
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Posted Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
We'll begin our annual look at New England's top programs in the most logical spot - the defending national champions. At this time last year, no one was expecting Putnam Science Academy to be on the verge of their first national championship. In fact, most people were just curious to see how they would evolve in their first full season in recent memory without Hamidou Diallo. What they went on to do was have a truly magical season and knock…
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Posted Monday, September 10th, 2018
Sunday marked the beginning of the NCAA recruiting period, meaning college coaches from all levels are permitted to watch perspective student-athletes compete but only in their own high school gym and with/against players from that school. In other words, college coaches are allowed to visit schools to watch pick-up or open gym. And so Sunday marked the beginning of the annual wave of college coaches arriving in the region to watch various programs compete. Vermont Academy got things going at…
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Posted Thursday, September 6th, 2018
Earlier this week it was announced that incoming Beaver Country Day freshman Sheyheim Odom was invited to October's USA Basketball Junior National Team mini-camp. On Tuesday, incoming Brewster Academy sophomore Terrence Clarke became the latest local prospect to be invited to the prestigious camp. More than just a camp, the invitation includes Clarke in all USA Basketball Junior National Team initiatives moving forward including year-round life skills initiatives, health and wellness support, and additional mini-camps scheduled for April and July…
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Posted Wednesday, September 5th, 2018
Vermont Academy guard Tyler Bertram returned to his former high school in Cooperstown, New York to announce his college commitment on Tuesday night. After having previously trimmed his list to just seven schools - St. Joseph's, Brown, Hofstra, Loyola Chicago, Rice, Charlotte, and George Washington - he took official visits to St. Joseph's and Charlotte in recent weeks. Charlotte had something unique to offer him, an opportunity to join the program right away, and that was enough for him to shut…
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Posted Monday, September 3rd, 2018
Beaver Country Day incoming freshman Shy Odom has been invited to the USA Basketball Junior National Team Minicamp from October 4th-7th at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The minicamp is the first part of the expanded Junior National Team Program, which was recently announced in conjunction with the NBA, NBA Players' Association, and NCAA. The program will include a year-round life skills initiative, health and wellness support and additional Junior National Team Minicamps, all of which Odom…
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Posted Saturday, September 1st, 2018
The 11th annual Elite 75 Showcase - Frosh/Soph Edition is now two weeks away as it will return to the University Sports Complex in Hanover, Massachusetts for another year of the "Saturday Night Live at the Elite 75" theme on Saturday, September 15th from 5:00-9:00p.m. With interest in the event continuing to ascend, here are some questions to the most common questions we've been hearing: Who should attend the Elite 75 Frosh/Soph? Anyone in the classes of 2021 and 2022…
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Posted Friday, August 31st, 2018
Dean Oliver is a pioneer of advanced analytics in the game of basketball. He was at the forefront of the movement following the popularity in baseball, as captured by "Moneyball." He authored the first mainstream book on the subject "Basketball on Paper" in 2002 and became the first full time statistical analyst in the NBA less than two year later. In the last fifteen years he has worked in the front office of three different NBA franchises and also worked…
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