No Reclass, No Sneaker, No Problem

Posted Friday, May 18th, 2018

Charles Coleman and Noah Kamba don’t play on a sneaker circuit, they haven’t reclassified, and won’t turn 18 until October. They are both getting recruitment from some of the highest levels of college basketball though. The inside-out tandem is now in their third year playing side-by-side, both during the high school season at Dexter Southfield, as well as during the grassroots season with WrightWay Skills. That process culminated with a NEPSAC championship in March as Dexter won the Class C… READ MORE >

Under the Radar Standouts

Posted Thursday, May 17th, 2018

It was little over one month ago that the Northeast Hoops Festival assembled all of the top teams in the northeast for the region's premier tune-up. Two weeks of live period action followed close behind and there's been more good basketball in early May. Leading up to next weekend's Memorial Day Super 16 Showcase, NERR will take the better part of the next ten days to examine the players who may not have earned the highest or most scholarship offers,… READ MORE >

Notre Dame Prep forward is D1 bound

Posted Wednesday, May 16th, 2018

For as much as Notre Dame Prep may have changed in the last year what remains the same is that head coach Ryan Hurd continues to churn out scholarship players. The latest is post-graduate forward Gabe Merete who announced his commitment to Florida Atlantic late Monday night. COMMITTED‼️�� #GoOwls pic.twitter.com/9E48jThTn1 — Gabe Merete (@Gabe_Merete) May 15, 2018 Merete is a Florida native who will both be realizing his division I dream while also returning back closer to home to do… READ MORE >

EYBL Session 3 Recap

Posted Tuesday, May 15th, 2018

BABC and Expressions Elite both traveled to Atlanta last weekend for the third session of Nike's EYBL. The session started with a head-to-head match-up between the two teams that came down to the wire. BABC led throughout most of the game, holding a 41-30 halftime lead, as Expressions struggled to score and finish plays in the first half but X wouldn't go away in the second as they increased the tempo of the game and began to score with much… READ MORE >

Team New England Wins Providence Jam Fest

Posted Monday, May 14th, 2018

The Hoop Group came to New England this weekend to host the Providence Jam Fest and when it was all said and done it was Team New England that took the tournament’s highest prize, the 17u Platinum division championship. One of eight teams to receive an opening round bye, Team New England opened late Saturday afternoon with a pair of convincing wins over Riverside Hawks 65-48 and then SJ Hoops Elite 58-24. Things got more competitive on Sunday morning though… READ MORE >

Super 16 Tips in Two Weeks

Posted Saturday, May 12th, 2018

We are now just two weeks away from NERR's second and final grassroots tournament of the spring as the Memorial Day Super 16 Showcase will be returning for it sixth consecutive year. After attracting the most talented field in tournament history last May, this year's event might be even better with commitments from teams in New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and beyond. The field also includes teams from both the Adidas Gauntlet as well as the Under Armour… READ MORE >

Nixon, Phelan, & McCauley headline latest Commitment Catch-Up

Posted Thursday, May 10th, 2018

The last two weeks have brought a handful of new commitments in the class of 2018 as names continue to fly off the board and student-athletes finalize their plans for next season. Here's a look at some of the most recent commitments: Choate Rosemary Hall post-graduate wing Jayden Nixon will be joining the program at the University of Virginia as a preferred walk-on. Nixon is a high level athlete who helped lead Choate to the NEPSAC A championship and scored… READ MORE >

Washington Back on the Board

Posted Thursday, May 10th, 2018

Just as the class of 2018 is beginning to dry up, one name has come back on the board as Travell Washington has de-committed from Pepperdine according to Lawrence Academy head coach Kevin Wiercinski. Washington, a 6-foot-9 native of California, announced his commitment to return to the west coast in late March, shortly after he went home for spring break and Lorenzo Romar was named the program's new head coach. Click here for the full story. While the reasons for… READ MORE >

Mattos Accepts Offer

Posted Tuesday, May 8th, 2018

Kearsarge High School's Tayler Mattos has been a man among boys in the NHIAA in recent years and yet he won't even celebrate his 18th birthday until August and so the plan was for him to do a post-graduate year following his graduation next month. That plan has now changed though after Mattos took an official visit to Bowling Green this weekend and signed National Letter of Intent on Tuesday morning. The 6-foot-10 big man averaged 26 points, 14 rebounds,… READ MORE >

Yag’s Point Forward - EYBL April Recap

Posted Tuesday, May 8th, 2018

With the first two sessions of the sneaker circuits’ 2018 campaign now in the books, it’s time to take a look at which prospects made the biggest impact and who we should be keeping an eye on as we head into the summer months. Here’s a team-by-team New England breakdown of how things went in Dallas and Indianapolis, along with other individual prospect performances for those playing for teams outside the region: NIKE EYBL EXPRESSIONS: Todd Quarles’ has quietly assembled… READ MORE >

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