Posted Monday, May 25th, 2020
With our NERR-TV Unsigned Senior Virtual Showcase coming to a close earlier this week, it's now time to put the class of 2020 to bed as a whole. With that in mind, final rankings have been released, and expanded, in all six New England states. Terrence Clarke, Hassan Diarra, Femi Odukale, Aidan Carpenter, CJ Jones, and Tyler Kolek finish as the top ranked prospects in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, and Rhode Island respectively. Final New England rankings will be…
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Posted Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
UCLA head coach Mick Cronin is the latest guest of The Upside Podcast with NERR founder Adam Finkelstein. This week's discussion covers a wide variety of subjects including Cronin's coaching foundation growing up as the son of a famous high school coach in Ohio, working under both Bob Huggins and Rick Pitino, and then taking over programs at Murray State, Cincinnatti, and now UCLA. Adam and Coach Cronin discuss his recruiting philosophy, ability to hold his players accountable without suffering…
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Posted Friday, May 22nd, 2020
With the NERR-TV Unsigned Senior Virtual Showcase coming to a close this week and having proven to be the best exposure opportunity for players amidst these unprecedented times, we are now extending the program to the class of 2021. By now focusing exclusively on rising seniors we will try to bridge the gap for players who have been rubbed of spring recruiting less than a year after they had a shortened summer to attract the attention of college coaches. The…
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Posted Thursday, May 21st, 2020
It was two months ago that we debuted the NERR-TV Virtual Showcase, an unprecedented program for unprecedented times, designed to capitalize on the visibility and credibility of the various NERR platforms to help unsigned seniors get the late exposure they needed after spring recruiting was shut down. That initiative proved to be more successful than we ever could have imagined. All 50 unsigned seniors who participated ended up being actively recruited by college programs, including over 20 from the scholarship level.…
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Posted Wednesday, May 20th, 2020
Cinque Robinson didn't even start playing basketball until just before high school and has only been visible on the AAU circuit for the last two years. Following his graduation, the Lindenhurst, New York native was determined to pursue opportunities to take his game to the college level and so he opted for a post-grad year at the Storm King School, where he could continue to develop his game. He did just that over the course of the last nine months,…
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Posted Tuesday, May 19th, 2020
St. Sebastian's School and Mass Rivals junior guard Lyndel Erold announced a verbal commitment to play his college basketball at Brown University on Sunday night. Erold had a breakout junior season at St. Sebastian's averaging 16 points, 8.5 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.3 steals per game while taking 18 charges on the season. While he finished the winter season without any offers, the buzz had been building in recent weeks, ultimately leading to his first offer from Brown late last…
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![James D2 Bound for SCSU]( "James D2 Bound for SCSU")
Posted Monday, May 18th, 2020
St. Andrew's School post-graduate guard and Kingswood-Oxford School alum Sean James made a verbal commitment to Southern Connecticut State University on Sunday night, where he will join his SAS teammate Evan Gutowski. James and Gutowski were both recently profiled by the NERR-TV Unsigned Senior Virtual Showcase and are two of ten players who have since gone on to commit to D2 schools. James is a highly skilled guard who overcame a hip injury to have a successful senior campaign at…
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Posted Monday, May 18th, 2020
New Jersey native Parnell Pierre began his career at Roselle Catholic, a basketball powerhouse in his home state, before transferring to Lawrence Academy for the 2018-19 school year. After a strong junior campaign and similarly successful AAU season with the DC Blue Devils, expectations were high coming into his senior year with Pierre aspiring to play his way into recruitment from schools in the Patriot League or Sun Belt Conference. Unfortunately, that's when adversity hit as a late-summer Achilles injury…
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Posted Sunday, May 17th, 2020
Following the interest in last week's feature on Re-Ranking the Class of 2018, we opted to repeat the process on the previous recruiting cycle. These exercises aren't just fun, they're informative from an evaluator's perspective, as we can zero in on traits and qualities that translated as we expected, and potentially others that did not. The class of 2017 was marked by heavy early expectations with players like Jermaine Samuels, Kimani Lawrence, Tomas Murphy, and Tremont Waters and ended up…
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Posted Friday, May 15th, 2020
CBS Sports College Basketball Insider was the latest guest on The Upside Podcast with Adam Finkelstein this week. Rothstein has become one of the nation's most well-known college basketball analysts and personalities in recent years utilizing an "entrepreneurial approach to the media industry" through his use of branding, marketing, customer engagement, and distribution. This interview digs into that unique and creative style while also exploring the ways in which the sports media industry has, and continues to, change. The podcast…
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