College basketball coaches are hitting the road hard this week as they begin having school and in-home visits with members of the Class of 2016.
Here’s a quick rundown of some high-profile visits coming up this week.
**N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried and assistant Orlando Early took off recruiting in a helicopter to see priority 2015 targets Bam Adebayo and Dennis Smith, Jr. A helicopter.
Great view as I head out recruiting #chopper #gopack pic.twitter.com/aRVqLSGuM4
— Mark Gottfried (@Mark_Gottfried) September 9, 2015
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Mark Gottfried, Orlando Early fly in to see Dennis Smith Jr. https://t.co/5tImJgTX6b
— Bret Strelow (@bretstrelow) September 9, 2015
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**Malik Monk has home visits Wednesday with Kentucky and Arkansas and with Oregon Friday, his brother Marcus told SNY.tv. Malik Monk recently cut his list to Arkansas, Florida State, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina and Oregon.
**Wenyen Gabriel hosts head coaches from Duke, Maryland and Providence on Wednesday, and head men from Kentucky and UConn on Thursday. For more, listen to his coach Mike Mannix on The 4 Quarters Podcast.
**Rawle Alkins is visiting St. John’s unofficially on Wednesday, he told SNY.tv. The 6-5 guard will head this week to Word of God Academy (N.C.). He recently cut his list to 10 schools.
**Shamorie Ponds has home visits with St. John’s, Creighton and Providence on Wednesday, and Minnesota on Thursday. He heads to Providence for an official this weekend and to Minnesota next weekend.
**St. John’s will also host German wing Richard Freudenberg on Wednesday before visiting junior college wing Bashir Ahmed of Hutchinson (KS) Community College on Thursday.
**Kentucky visits Huntington (W.V.) Prep small forward Miles Bridges on Wednesday ahead of his official visit to Michigan State this weekend, per ESPN’s Jeff Borzello. North Carolina will also visit next week.
**Detroit Jesuit point guard Cassius Winston met Wednesday with Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, per Borzello, and Pittsburgh and Stanford come in on Thursday.
**Andrew Jones has home visits Wednesday with Baylor and Texas, followed by Arizona and Texas A&M on Thursday and Louisville on Friday. He takes an official to Texas this weekend following last weekend’s trip to Arizona.
**2017 center Zach Brown will host Miami on Wednesday and N.C. State on Saturday. For more, read this.
**UConn head coach Kevin Ollie and assistant Glen Miller will be at Putnam Academy Wednesday for 2016 commit Mamadou Diarra, as well as Hamidou Diallo, Eric Ayala and Emmanuel Umoffia.
**UConn, Rutgers, VCU, Georgia Tech will see 2016 shooting guard/small forward Chuba Ohams of Putnam Academy, with Rutgers in Wednesday.
**Rutgers head coach Eddie Jordan and assistants Van Macon and Greg Vetrone will see 2016 pledge Kwe Parker and Hargrave (VA) Military Academy small forward DeRiante Jenkins Thursday.
**LSU has a home visit Wednesday with De’Aaron Fox, a source confirmed. Fox recently cut his list to Arizona, Kentucky, Kansas, Louisville, LSU, N.C. State and North Carolina.
**Team Thad PG Jaylen Fisher takes an official to UNLV this weekend and hosts Memphis coach Josh Pastner Wednesday, per his coach.
**Marques Bolden will host head coaches from Baylor, Kansas and Alabama, per ESPN’s Jeff Goodman.
**Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey visits Javin DeLaurier today before DeLaurier takes his official to Texas this weekend, a source confirmed.
**Ohio State and Memphis will visit 2016 Starkville (MS) guard Tyson Carter on Wednesday ahead of his visit to Mississippi State this weekend, per Corey Evans.
**Louisville will visit 2016 Douglasville, GA shooting guard Brandon Robinson and Wednesday and Georgia comes in next week, per Evans.
**Georgetown will be at St. Anthony’s on Monday for 2016 commit Jagan Mosely and 2017 PF Daniel Mading, per a source.
**2017 DeMatha (MD) Catholic wing D.J. Harvey won’t commit anytime soon, his father told SNY.tv.
**Seton Hall hosted Taurean Thompson of Brewster (N.H.) Academy and Isaiah Washington of St. Raymond’s on Tuesday. Meantime, Thompson has scheduled an official visit for Syracuse for Sept. 25-26, per coach Jason Smith.
**Florida and Temple will be in this week to Blair (N.J.) Academy to see 6-8 2017 small forward Kodye Pugh.
** Syracuse, Villanova, UConn, Temple and Maryland this week will watch Isaiah Mucius, a 6-foot-8 2018 wing from St. James Prep (MD).
**2017 PG Trae Young has home visits coming up with Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Baylor, Texas Tech, Mizzou and SMU, he tells @SNYtv
