Posted Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
The nation's second ranked overall prospect, Mitch McGary, had coaches from Duke, Florida, and Michigan glued to their televisions this afternoon as he announced his commitment live on ESPNU. "It looks like I'm going to be a Wolverine," he said to the delight of Michigan coaches and fans. McGary joins St. Mark's guard Nikolas Stauskas and Glenn Robinson Jr. to give head coach John Beilein a top five national class in 2012, and his best recruiting class since arriving at…
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Posted Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Brewster Academy senior forward T.J. Warren made a verbal commitment to North Carolina State on Wednesday, choosing the Wolfpack over Georgetown after having previously cut Kentucky, North Carolina, and Florida. The news was first reported by ESPN.com's Dave Telep. "When I was growing up I went to a lot of games when Herb Sendek was the coach and Julius Hodge was there," Warren told Telep. "I've always been a State fan." While N.C. State has hardly been the Wolfpack program…
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Posted Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
St. Andrew’s School has won 25 games and advanced to the NEPSAC class AA final four in back to back seasons, but with will begin a new chapter this season. Gone from last year’s graduated class of 2011 is over 4,000 career points, including 2,000 plus alone from current Syracuse freshman Michael Carter-Williams, and so the Saints will have to change their style of play this season in order to compete in one of America’s top non-college leagues. The senior…
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Posted Monday, October 31st, 2011
Arizona already had the nation’s top ranked recruiting class to date and as one of two schools still in the hunt for the nation’s best available center and sixth ranked overall prospect Kaleb Tarczewski, there was potential to put together one of the best recruiting classes college basketball has seen in recent years. Potential turned into reality early Monday afternoon when Tarczewski committed to head coach Sean Miller, choosing Arizona over a Kansas program that has been considered the frontrunner…
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Posted Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Ben Freeland, a native of Santa Rosa, California arrived at Suffield Academy this fall for a post-graduate year, but was no stranger to New England after a brief stint in the area this summer hitting events like Hoop Mountain Super Weeks 1 and 2, along with the Elite 75 Showcase. It was during this trip that Freeland’s recruiting began to take off, as the big man received interest from a variety of programs in the Ivy and Patriot Leagues. This…
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Posted Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Little more than a week after landing their first commitment in the class of 2012, New Hampshire was back at it on Monday, accepting a verbal commitment from Frank Okeke from DeSoto High School in Texas. At six-foot-eight and two-hundred-and-twenty pounds, Okeke is an old school power forward who provides a physical presence inside the paint and high volume rebounder on both ends of the floor. Okeke joins Chris Orozco, a six-foot-three shooting guard from Tenafly High School in New…
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Posted Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Three of New England's elite AAU programs, The BABC, New England Playaz, and Rhode Island Hawks went into battle Saturday Night in the sixteen-and-under division at the Rhode Island Hawks Halloween Hoopfest. The face-off began with the Hawks and Playaz. The Hawks jumped out to an early 43-35 halftime lead, but failed to resist the Playaz second half charge, ultimately falling in the long run 67-66. Next up, the Playaz went on to face the BABC, entertaining on-looking fans with…
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Posted Saturday, October 29th, 2011
Holy Cross continues to show the width of their recruiting efforts, going to Philadelphia to land their most recent commitment in six-foot-eight power forward Isaiah Baker from the Shipley School. Baker made a verbal commitment to head coach Milan Brown on Sunday night. Baker made headlines earlier this month after being selected for the Eddie Griffin Challenge as one of the best seniors in Pennsylvnia. He is known as a strong and skilled post player that can stretch defenses with his shooting…
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Posted Saturday, October 29th, 2011
It was a cold weekend in Connecticut as an early winter storm resulted in unprecedented power outages across the state, but that was hardly enough to keep the coaching staff at Yale down after they landed a big commitment Sunday morning from Justin Sears, a six-foot-seven forward from Plainfield High School in New Jersey. Sears is a high-level athlete best known for his dominance on the defensive end of the floor. He was widely recruited throughout the Ivy League and…
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Posted Saturday, October 29th, 2011
This was yet another summer that saw many of the NHIAA’s top prospects leave for the prep school ranks. Some of those players include Dimitri Floras, Devin Gilligan, Christian Iozza, Tom Nason and Matt Dean. Still, the cupboard is far from bare, as there is still much talent in the granite state’s public school ranks. And while the NHIAA hasn’t produced a ton of scholarship level players in recent years, the fact is New England is home to many competitive…
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