Posted Wednesday, March 30th, 2016
Maine wasn’t the only state that saw two bitter rivals battle it out for the top prize in their state association. In Vermont, Burlington got the better half of crosstown rival Rice Memorial 37-29 in front of a sold out Patrick Gymnasium on the campus of the University of Vermont. Senior Josh Hale was the hero for the champions, score 4 of his 11 points down the stretch of a defensive battle to win the 21st state championship in Burlington’s…
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Posted Monday, March 28th, 2016
Phillips Andover guard Danny Evans made a verbal commitment to the University of Maine on Monday afternoon and is expected to sign his National Letter of Intent during the upcoming Late Signing Period. A 6-foot-4 guard from England, Evans starred with the UK's 18-and-under national team this summer before arriving in the New England prep ranks for his post-graduate season. He announced his arrival with a strong performance at the Scholar Roundball Classic in December and went on to lead…
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Posted Monday, March 28th, 2016
Our look back at the high school season in all six New England states brings us to the state of Maine today, were five state champions were recently crowned. A pair of local rivals met in the inaugural Class AA final and together they delivered a classic for the ages as Portland held off South Portland 52-50 in double overtime. Amir Moss delivered a star-studded performance for the champions, pouring in 27 points and grabbing 11 rebounds. South Portland did…
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Posted Sunday, March 27th, 2016
Cameras were rolling at the recent Elite 75 Academic Experience and so, as promised, not a bounce of the ball was missed. And so while the event was attending by numerous high academic schools from across the northeast region - including places like Williams, Trinity, Tufts, Bates, Colby, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Connecticut College, Rochester and numerous others - the exposure opportunities lasted long after that day of action ended. Check-out updated NERR profiles for the following players which now include personal…
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Posted Friday, March 25th, 2016
The high school and prep school seasons are officially over in New England and that means the spring grassroots circuit is right around the corner. In preparation for that time of year, we've again collaborated with CoxHub to create our own hypothetical dream team. This team is certainly far more fantasy than reality, based on a world were all the top players in New England could unite under a single umbrella. That isn't possible in the current landscape, but if…
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Posted Friday, March 25th, 2016
The MIAA crowned four state champions in Massachusetts last weekend with Cambridge Rindge & Latin taking the top prize in Division I. After winning the north, Cambridge matched up with Catholic Memorial in the semis, and narrowly escaped by a 77-73 margin. They met St. John’s Shrewsbury in the final, who had come out of the central region and knocked off Putnam in the semis. St. John’s held a narrow lead for most of the first half but Cambridge was…
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Posted Thursday, March 24th, 2016
We continue our look back at the season that was in New England’s six state associations with a recap of the year in the Ocean State. Things ended in very familiar fashion, with Bishop Hendricken taking another state championship with a 62-57 win over LaSalle Academy in the finals of the state open. Trailing by as many as nine points early in the second half, Hendricken responded with a 17-0 run to give them control of game heading into the…
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Posted Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
Brewster Academy post-graduate big man Zach Cameron-Chodes made a verbal commitment to Kennesaw State on Tuesday after taking official visits to both their campus as well as Eastern Kentucky in recent weeks. A native of Missouri, who previously starred at Parkview High School, Cameron-Chodes returns closer to home to play for longtime Boston College head coach Al Skinner, who just completed his first year at the helm of the Kennesaw State program. A six-foot-ten big man and high level athlete…
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Posted Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
The 2015-2016 high school basketball season has now come and gone in all six New England states and so today we begin to look back at all six of those respective state associations. Up first is Connecticut, where the CIAC crowned four state champions this weekend at Mohegan Sun in games that were aired live on CPTV Sports. The grand finale took place on Sunday night as Hillhouse High School (New Haven) met Weaver High School (Hartford) and while the…
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Posted Monday, March 21st, 2016
In the long overdue final chapter of a six part series, the New England Recruiting Report looks at the best big men still left on the board in the class of 2016. Our big man category includes those players that impact the game primarily around the paint and are typically limited to guarding opposing teams' post players. Jordy Tshimanga, MacDuffie – The wide-bodied lefty has plenty of heavy hitters on him right now as there simply aren’t many true centers…
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