Prep Profile – St. Thomas More

Posted Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

Perhaps more so than any other school in class AAA of the NEPSAC, St. Thomas More will feel the impact of MCI and Winchendon both deciding to leave the league this season.  With AAA now down to just six schools, every team in the league should see a renewed emphasis on the regular season as a race for the top two spots in the conference essentially guarantees a bye into the semifinals of the post-season tournament. For St. Thomas More,… READ MORE >

Prep Profile – Lee Academy

Posted Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

Good things come to those who drive.  That’s been a recruiting theme over the years at Lee Academy as the college coaches who take on the long drive north are often rewarded by finding ample supply of talented players who are occasionally under-recruited.  That theory has already been validated twice this fall as Drexel and Vermont both scored steals with commitments from Mohamed Bah and Kiefer Douse respectively.  Bah, and six-foot-eight native of Mali, saw a steady dose of mid-major… READ MORE >

Munda Commits, then Changes Mind

Posted Monday, October 29th, 2012

Farleigh Dickinson University scored a commitment from Notre Dame Prep swingman Donnele Munda earlier this weekend, only to have Munda re-open his recruitment roughly 72 hours later.  Munda is a Canadian native who first arrived in New England last season at Vermont Academy, emerging as a highly pursued mid-major prospect with wide ranging recruitment and scholarship offers ranging from the MAAC on down.  The six-foot-four swingman transferred to Notre Dame Prep for his final season of eligibility and rededicated himself… READ MORE >

Prep Profile – South Kent

Posted Sunday, October 28th, 2012

South Kent School has had one of the most prominent prep basketball programs in the entire country over the last decade.   In each of the last nine seasons the school has put together a loaded roster with alumni including NBA players like Andray Blatche, Dorrell Wright, Isaiah Thomas, and Mo Harkless along with a plethora of big names from college basketball like Matthew Bryan-Amaning (Washington), Gilbert Brown (Pittsburgh), Maurice Creek (Indiana), Kevin Parrom (Arizona) Russ Smith (Louisville), J.J. Moore (Pittsburgh),… READ MORE >

Castro Calls it for Butler

Posted Friday, October 26th, 2012

Worcester Academy senior guard Rene Castro took to his twitter account early Saturday night to announce his commitment to Butler.  “Thanks for all of my family and friends who support me i have decided to commit to butler university to play basketball,” he tweeted at 6:52p.m. His commitment comes nearly ten days after trimming his list down to four schools – Butler, Duquesne, George Washington, and Boston University.  “Butler had the right match for Rene with great academics and basketball,”… READ MORE >

Holy Cross Adds Latest Pledge

Posted Friday, October 26th, 2012

Holy Cross picked up their fourth commitment in the class of 2013 on Friday when Riley Criswell made a verbal commitment to head coach Milan Brown. Criswell is a six-foot-seven wing from Carrollton High School in Georgia and the Atlanta All-Stars AAU program.  He averaged 11 points, 8 rebounds, and 4 blocks last year as a junior playing under his father at Carrollton and is known as a versatile swingman who can shoot the ball well to three and has… READ MORE >

Prep Profile – New Hampton

Posted Friday, October 26th, 2012

Noah Vonleh has been the story at New Hampton this fall, first making headlines with his move back to the class of 2013 and recently by trimming his list down to six schools.  On Friday, that attention shifted to first year senior point guard Travis Jorgenson, who announced that he was re-opening his commitment after having been committed to his hometown University of Missouri for over the last year.  The move makes Jorgenson one of the top five rated available… READ MORE >

Dingba’s Move to 2014 Reshuffles Rankings

Posted Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

In a story that was first reported by ESPN.com, Samuel Dingba announced on Wednesday that he would be staying at Salisbury School for a post-graduate year after graduating in the class of 2013 as planned.  The move had nothing to do with basketball - he should be a full qualifier after this season and had over two dozen scholarship offers in 2013 - and everything to do with preparing himself academically for college after arriving in the United States little… READ MORE >

Prep Profile – Brewster Academy

Posted Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

It was 13 years ago that Jason Smith was named the head boys basketball coach at Brewster Academy, a school that lacked a basketball tradition and was anything but a national powerhouse.    Since that time he has built Brewster into one of the premier post-graduate programs in the entire nation.  Last year’s National Prep Championship made them the only school in the country to win multiple titles since the National Championships originated in 2007.  In the last five years alone,… READ MORE >

Vermont Scores with Douse

Posted Monday, October 22nd, 2012

  The University of Vermont scored a huge verbal commitment on Tuesday from Lee Academy point guard Kiefer Douse.  The point guard position was the Catamounts top priority heading into the summer recruiting period and after targeting a number of talented options from the northeast and beyond, they ultimately zeroed in on Douse.  The six-foot-three Canadian native spent this weekend visiting Vermont officially before offering his verbal commitment less than 48 hours later.  He had visited Arkansas State earlier this… READ MORE >

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