Posted Monday, October 26th, 2009
Franklin High School’s Matt Dean recently made a commitment to attend Hamilton College next year and play basketball. Hamilton College is a top academic school whose basketball team has been a dominant power in the Liberty League, advancing to the conference finals in each of the last six seasons under head coach Tobin Anderson. Despite being located in New York, Hamilton has made recruiting New England a priority, and has landed a number of talented prospects from our region. This…
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Posted Monday, October 26th, 2009
A week after Northeastern landed six-foot-seven forward Alex Bates from Maryland, the Huskies have picked up another verbal commitment from six-foot-ten center Ryan Pierson. Pierson is currently a senior at Christian Brothers High School in St. Louis, Missouri and runs with Team Ramey Basketball on the AAU circuit. He is an inside out big man who should be a good fit in head coach Bill Coen’s flex system with his ability to score on the block or face the basket…
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Posted Monday, October 26th, 2009
While he still has yet to coach his first game on the Boston University sidelines, first year Terriers head coach Patrick Chambers continues to show results in recruiting as he and his staff earned their sixth verbal commitment of the 2010 class this weekend. Malik Thomas, a six-foot-seven swingman from Wadleigh High School in New York, committed to Boston University on Saturday. With his long frame Thomas has the size of the forward and the perimeter skills of a guard…
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Posted Sunday, October 25th, 2009
After taking a series of unofficial visits to Ivy and Patriot League schools this summer and fall, Troy Robinson took his first official visit to Bryant University this past weekend. The visit will also be his last. “I called [assistant] Coach [Mike] Kelly in the car on the way home and told him I was committing,” Robinson told the New England Recruiting Report. “I couldn’t get a hold of [head] Coach [Tim] O’Shea because they were in a scrimmage, but…
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Posted Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Rod Odom de-committed from Arizona late Sunday night and made a verbal commitment to Vanderbilt early Monday morning. When Odom originally committed to Arizona less than three weeks ago, he was blunt about the fact that Arizona barely edged out Vanderbilt. “I was real close to going to Vanderbilt last night,” Odom told SNY’s Adam Zagoria at the time, “but I’ve been talking it over with my mom and dad and we made that decision.” Well given a few additional…
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Posted Sunday, October 25th, 2009
When the New England Recruiting Report first debuted in August of 2006 it was the first website of its kind, an online source dedicated solely to covering basketball and recruiting in the New England region. In the three years that have passed NERR has added a variety of features including video highlights, a database of all of the region’s top prospects, profiles of all of the top school programs in the region, and a new Junior Elite Division. This past…
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Posted Saturday, October 24th, 2009
It was almost two weeks ago that the New England Recruiting Report profiled Winchendon post-graduate and Crosby High School graduate Anthony Ireland. A year ago Ireland was barely on the division I radar, but after shining with the New England Playaz this summer, the point guard suddenly became a priority for schools from some of the best mid-major conferences around the country. This weekend Ireland opted to end his recruitment as he made a commitment to Loyola Marymount while he…
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Posted Saturday, October 24th, 2009
The New England Recruiting Report’s latest video of the week features Alex Burt, a senior guard from Dover High School in New Hampshire. NERR first became aware of Burt this summer when he proved his worth by competing on the national level with the Mass Rivals AAU team. To check out Burt's personalized highlight reel click on his profile or scroll to the lower right hand corner of the NERR home page. Any prospect who has a highlight video posted…
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Posted Saturday, October 24th, 2009
As was first reported by Alex Schwartz of the Northstar Basketball Blog, Northeastern University picked up a verbal commitment from six-foot-seven forward Alex Bates earlier this week. After an impressive month of July on the camp circuit, Bates ended up with over 10 division I scholarship offers. Ultimately, Bates told Schwartz that Northeastern stood out among the pack because of the competitiveness of the CAA, the quality of the school’s academics, and the family like atmosphere with head coach Bill…
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Posted Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Phillips Exeter Academy operates within two very distinct worlds. Academically, they are one of the top secondary schools in the country. Athletically, their basketball team competes in Class A of the NEPSAC, arguably the most competitive basketball conference in the country. Occasionally, those two worlds can be at odds with each other, creating challenges for the Exeter basketball program that other schools in the league don’t have to consider. To put it into perspective, imagine if Yale or Harvard was…
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