BY MATT SUGAM & ADAM ZAGORIA

Dan Hurley turned down an offer to become the next head coach at Rutgers on Monday — and will not return home to New Jersey to try to save the day.

Hurley has agreed in principle to a contract extension through 2019-20 at Rhode Island, sources with direct knowledge told SNY.tv. He is expected to sign the extension soon.

Hurley initially signed a six-year deal worth approximately $4 million at Rhode Island a year ago after leaving Wagner following a two-year stint there. The Rutgers offer was not significantly more than what he makes at Rhody.

It was reported here last week that Rhode Island was working on Hurley’s extension.

Rutgers still must hire an athletic director, but for now is moving ahead with ts coaching search anyway — with former South Carolina and Vanderbilt coach Eddie Fogler running the coaching search, sources confirmed to SNY.tv. Now they must look elsewhere for a coach to take them into the Big Ten in 2014.

Hurley,  a Seton Hall alum, a New Jersey native and the son of  St. Anthony coach and Naismith Hall of Famer Bob Hurley Sr., has opted to stay to rebuild Rhode Island.

In Hurley’s first season at Rhody after two years at Wagner, the Rams struggled to an 8-21 campaign, but they should be much stronger in the revamped Atlantic 10 Conference next season with the addition of transfers Jarelle Reischel (Rice), DeShon “Biggie” Minnis (Texas Tech) and Gilvydas Biruta (Rutgers).

They also add four-star Michigan guard E.C. Mathews and three-star New York forward Hassan Martin.

Meantime, Rutgers interim head coach David Cox — who went 3-0 during Mike Rice’s suspension — has gained the support of at least some players.

“I feel that he would be a good choice,” Sandra Mack, the mother of sophomore point guard Myles Mack, told SNY.tv.

“He provides the stability and strength that the team needs at this critical time. The team had also voiced this to the administration and I feel they should honor their wishes after all they’ve had to endure.”

In other New Jersey coaching news, Seton Hall is looking at bringing in former Rutgers head coach Freddie Hill as an assistant to replace Chris Pompey, who is no longer on the staff, sources confirmed to SNY.tv.

Hill recruited Gill St. Bernard’s point guard Jaren Sina while an assistant at Northwestern under Bill Carmody.

Sina is currently visiting Alabama and is also considering Seton Hall, Northwestern and Indiana.

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ATLANTA — Rhode Island head coach Dan Hurley may not turn out to be Rutgers’ next men’s basketball coach after all.

Hurley and Rhode Island are close to an agreement on a contract extension through the 2019-20 season, although it has not yet been finalized, sources confirmed to SNY.tv.

The news was first reported by SI.com.

Theoretically, if Rutgers were to make a hard pitch in the next few days, Hurley might still be an option.

As of now, however, the school has no athletic director to make such a hire after Tim Pernetti resigned Friday in the wake of the Mike Rice abuse scandal.

Hurley spent nine seasons molding St. Benedict’s Prep into a national power before he moved on to Wagner, which he led to a 25-6 record in his second season there. He then took the Rhode Island job.

In his first season, the Rams struggled to an 8-21 campaign, but they should be much stronger in the revamped Atlantic 10 Conference next season with the addition of transfers Jarelle Reischel (Rice), DeShon “Biggie” Minnis (Texas Tech) and Gilvydas Biruta (Rutgers).

They also add four-star Michigan guard E.C. Mathews and three-star New York forward Hassan Martin.

Earlier Saturday, it was reported by CBSSports.com that former UCLA head coach Ben Howland is “intrigued” by the Rutgers opening.

Other candidates for the job are Temple head coach Fran Dunphy, La Salle head coach Dr. John Giannini, Detroit Pistons coach Lawrence Frank and Lakers assistant and former Rutgers star Eddie Jordan.

First Rutgers needs to higher a new Athletic Director, which Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi will do before the university hires a new basketball coach to replace Rice, who was fired Wednesday in the wake of the video scandal.

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Bobby Hurley

Hurley joins Buffalo from the University of Rhode Island where he has been serving as associate head coach under his brother, Dan Hurley.

UB Director of Athletics Danny White made the announcement on Tuesday at a 5:00 pm press conference at Alumni Arena.

“After reviewing a large and highly qualified national pool and following my conversations with some of the most respected figures in college athletics, Coach Hurley was clearly the choice to lead the next era of UB basketball,” White said. ” As we continue to foster our role as the flagship athletic department for the state of New York, the appointment of Coach Hurley sends a clear statement that the University at Buffalo is committed to bringing big time college athletics to the Western New York community and the state at large.

“Coach Hurley adds an exciting dynamic to our athletic program,” White added. “He is one of the most accomplished players in college basketball history with a legacy that includes three Final Four appearances and winning two national championships. I’m confident, after our discussions, that he is the right leader to take our program to the next level. We couldn’t be more proud to welcome Bobby, Leslie and their family to the Western New York community.”

A first-team All-American in 1993, Hurley is best remembered for being the point guard at Duke – one of the best college basketball teams of all time. Along with Western New York native Christian Laettner, Hurley led the Blue Devils to three Final Four appearances and consecutive national championships in 1991 and 1992. Hurley still holds the NCAA record for career assists with 1,076.

Following his outstanding career at Duke, Hurley was selected by the Sacramento Kings with the seventh pick in the 1993 NBA Draft. He went on to play five years in the NBA with the Kings and Vancouver Grizzles.

Hurley joined the Philadelphia 76ers as a scout in 2003 before venturing into private business. He was hired as an assistant coach at Wagner College in 2010 and spent two seasons with the Seahawks, playing a critical role in rebuilding the men’s basketball team. He helped lead Wagner to a 25-6 record during the 2011-12 season – its best record in school history – before joining Rhode Island, where he was associate head coach this past season.

Hurley comes from a strong basketball lineage. His father, Bob, Sr., is a legendary coach in the high school ranks, leading perennial power St. Anthony’s to 26 state championships and more than 1,000 wins in 39 years of coaching. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010. Hurley’s brother, Dan, is the head men’s basketball coach at Rhode Island, after a successful tenure at Wagner College and an outstanding prep school coaching career.

Hurley and his wife, Leslie, have two daughters, Cameron and Sydney, and a son, Bobby.

What They Are Saying About Bobby Hurley

“I am incredibly happy for Bobby and for the Buffalo Basketball program. What a great marriage it will be for Bobby to work with Danny White. The two will form an incredible team that will take Buffalo Basketball to another level of success. Bobby Hurley is as good of a competitor and the equal of any guard to play in the history of college basketball.” – Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University Head Men’s Basketball Coach

“I am excited for Bobby and the great opportunity he has ahead of him at the University at Buffalo.  The last few years we have coached together have been special and I know he is ready for this next step.  Buffalo is getting a great coach and an even better person.” – Dan Hurley, Rhode Island Head Coach

“Buffalo has made an inspired hire in Bobby Hurley.  Bobby is one of the most intense and courageous competitors I have ever been around, and he has a great feel for the game.  He is a winner in every sense of the word, but he also has a refreshing humility and blue-collar approach.  Bobby is a great person, and an outstanding young basketball coach.  Buffalo just hit it out of the park by hiring Bobby.”  - Jay Bilas, ESPN

“I couldn’t be happier for Bobby. It’s my hometown, so I’m excited for the city of Buffalo and UB. You are getting a ‘Class A’ person and character and a ‘Class A’ in terms of basketball knowledge. I don’t want to put pressure on him, but I’m expecting the basketball program to improve because Bobby is a great coach.” – Christian Laettner, former Duke teammate

“My wife and I are extremely excited. I think the University, students and alumni are going to really enjoy how hard the team will play. Bobby has a lot of energy. After his three years of coaching with Danny, he’s ready to take on this leadership role.” – Bob Hurley, Sr., Hall of Fame Coach

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But for all intents and purposes, the state championship will take place Friday night sometime after 8 p.m. at the Prudential Center in Newark.

Hall of Fame coach Bob Hurley and St. Anthony (18-0) will carry an 83-game winning streak dating to March 2010 into a showdown with St. Benedict’s Prep (18-1), which had also been unbeaten before stumbling Wednesday night at Blair.

The two teams cannot meet in the state tournament because St. Benedict’s is not a full member of the state association and plays a national schedule as a result. While St. Anthony’s season has culminated the last two seasons — and 12 times overall — with a Tournament of Champions crown, St. Benedict’s is looking ahead to the ESPN National High School Championship in April.

“This is the game for the bragging rights of the state of New Jersey, really,” St. Ben’s coach Mark Taylor told SNY.tv Thursday. “This is probably the two best teams in the state overall and look, everybody wants to say they’re the best team in the state so this is the game that probably will dictate that.”

St. Anthony, which over the weekend won the SNY Invitational, is ranked No. 6 nationally by ESPN.com, while St. Benedict’s was No. 9 before the Blair game.

Together, the two teams feature seven players committed to Division 1 programs.

Everyone had hoped the two programs would be unbeaten coming into this game, but Taylor’s team stumbled at Blair, perhaps looking ahead to the Friars.

“You know what, it’s a long year,” Taylor said. “I tell the kids, you can’t have too many highs, you can’t have too many lows. The great thing is, when you have a bad night, you get to play again two nights later. But at the end of the day, you never want to lose. But this could be a positive long-term if we grow from it.”

Taylor said two of his key players, junior guards Jonathan Williams and Jordan Forehand, were injured and might not play.

For many years, St. Anthony and St. Benedict’s never played because Chris Hurley, Bob’s wife and the official St. Anthony scorekeeper, did not want her husband coaching against her son, former St. Benedict’s coach Dan Hurley, now the head coach at Rhode Island.

But a year ago, the two teams met for the first time in more than a decade during Taylor’s first season in Newark. Both teams were unbeaten heading into a January showdown in Hackensack. Led by point guard Tyler Ennis, who has since signed with Syracuse, St. Benedict’s led by eight points in the third period, but ultimately lost, 51-50.

St. Anthony’s win in that game and the next month against Andrew Wiggins and Huntington (W.V.) Prep in the PrimeTime Shootout at Roselle Catholic helped Hurley’s team remain undefeated across two seasons during which Kyle Anderson was on the team.

Anderson finished up 65-0 in two years at St. Anthony, and the current team — led by Temple-bound point guard Josh Brown (featured here) — has won its first 18 games this year.

Now the teams will tangle again.

“Yeah, I’m definitely looking forward to it,” St. Anthony senior guard Hallice Cooke, the MVP of the SNY Invitational, told SNY.tv. “It’s going to be a packed crowd and they’re a great team so it’s going to be an exciting game.”

Under Hurley, St. Anthony has won 27 state championships and 12 T of C titles. Hurley’s goal, first and foremost, will always be preparing for — and ultimately winning — the state tournament.

Even if St. Anthony loses this game, that will never change.

Two years ago, St. Patrick and St. Anthony were ranked first and second nationally and also happened to play in the New Jersey state tournament in what was called the mythical national championship played before more than 8,000 fans at Rutgers. St. Anthony won the game, spoiling the “Prayer for a Perfect Season” of then-St. Pat’s coach Kevin Boyle and his star, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, that was captured in an HBO documentary.

There will probably never be another New Jersey game of that magnitude — and this one certainly isn’t.

“It’s different because this one here it doesn’t have that much on the line,” said Cooke, a sophomore in that 2011 game. “It’s going to be another game, it’s not 1 and 2. It’s not going on to the state championship [if you win].

“It’s a regular game for us to get better. And we can do is play our hardest and see what the results come.”

Told that St. Benedict’s sophomore guard Isaiah Briscoe had guaranteed a victory to USA Today, Cooke didn’t flinch.

“They could talk,” he said. “He’s a confident kid. I know Briscoe.

“I don’t pay any mind to that. I’m just focused on what I have to do and what my team has to do. When we’re on the court, we’ll see what everything’s about.”

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Hall of Fame coach Bob Hurley and St. Anthony will take a 79-game winning streak into this weekend’s SNY Invitational at City College.

The Friars (14-0) won the SNY event in 2011.

The last time St. Anthony lost a game (in March 2010), the Yankees were the defending World Series champions and Tiger Woods was still married to Elin Nordegren.

In the above video, Hurley talks about the leadership of Temple-bound point guard Josh Brown, who’s averaging 14 points, seven rebounds and five assists.

Brown and the Friars will meet Wes Myers and three-time defending New York PSAL champ Boys & Girls tonight at 8 p.m.

Long Island Lutheran, led by UConn-bound forward Kentan Facey, meets junior point guard Shavar Newkirk and Cardinals Hayes in the first game at 6 p.m.

The winners will meet in Saturday’s 4 p.m. championship game, while the consolation game is at 2.

The games will be shown live on SNY.

For more Videos and Player Blogs on the SNY Invitational, click here.

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UNION, N.J. — Curtis High School on Staten Island has been having an under-the radar season despite being 9-2, with one of those losses coming at the hands of perennial power St. Anthony, 61-31, Saturday night at Kean University.

One of the biggest reasons for Curtis’ early success is due in large part to 6-foot-7 senior small forward Hassan Martin.

Martin, a Rhode Island commit, has been the main scoring option for the team as he’s able to use athleticism to the max, whether it is on the boards, through the lane, or wherever his team needs him. Curtis is one of two 2013 Rhody commits for Dan Hurley’s squad, the other being top tier shooting guard E.C. Mathews.

The Rams are currently 5-8 but should take a big step forward in 2013-14 with the additions of Martin and Mathews, plus transfers Gilvydas Biruta (Rutgers), Jarelle Reischel (Rice) and DeShon “Biggie” Minnis (Texas Tech).

Martin won’t be on Rhody’s campus as a student for another seven months but has already made a few trips up for basketball season, seeing the Rams play SMU recently. Martin loved the trip.

“It was great to go up there, take in the atmosphere, and it only made me more excited for when I get there,” he said.

With Martin playing against St. Anthony legendary coach Bob Hurley, the father of his future coach, he said he definitely made the connection.

“It did a little bit because all the Hurleys are good coaches especially with Coach (Bob) Hurley being one of the greatest coaches ever,” Martin said. “I got an early taste I guess.”

Hurley’s Friars held Martin to just three points on the night, as Temple-bound Josh Brown and Oregon State-bound Hallice Cooke led New Jersey’s top team to a 30-point win.

Despite the loss, Martin believes his squad will be fine come the postseason.

“I think we’ve been playing well so far and as long as we stay focused we should be fine,” he said.

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Bob Hurley’s Friars defeated Newark Central, 73-33, to improve to 2-0 on the season.

“I don’t look in that locker room and see a lot of the 67-game winning streak,” Hurley told Mike Kinney of MSGVarsity.com. “Yes, it happened, but we’re in the now. And the now needs to get a lot better.”

After St. Anthony beat Neptune on Saturday, Hurley pointed out that other players — Myles Mack, Lucious Jones, Jerome Frink and Kyle Anderson — formed the core of the teams that won 65 straight games and two New Jersey Tournament of Champions titles over the previous two years.

With this latest victory, St. Anthony broke its own record of 66 straight victories set under Hurley from 1995-97.

The Passaic “Wonder Teams” under Ernest “Prof” Blood won 159 consecutive games from 1919-25.

Oregon State-bound Hallice Cooke (14 points) and Jordan Compas (13) helped the cause for St. Anthony, which committed double-digit turnovers in the first half.

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WEST ORANGE, N.J.

This year is no exception.

Having won their 66th consecutive game Sunday with a 64-28 victory over Neptune at the Tip-Off Hoop Group Showcase, the Friars will now seek to set a modern-day New Jersey record of 67 straight wins when they play Newark Central Thursday night.

Ironically, St. Anthony is seeking to break its own record of 66 straight wins set under Hurley from 1995-7.

The Passaic “Wonder Teams” under Ernest “Prof” Blood won 159 consecutive games from 1919-25.

“I haven’t given this thing one second of thought,” said Hurley, the Naismith Hall of Famer who has won back-to-back New Jersey Tournament of Champions titles and 12 overall. “That is something that’s not coming up.

“If we were to win 80 in a row it won’t come up because this group has 26 games to kind of figure out what we’re good at and the last time I checked the 65-games prior to this Myles Mack, Lucious Jones, Jerome Frink, Kyle Anderson, there’s a lot of guys who I think their fingerprints would be on that more than this group I have here.”

Mack and Anderson enrolled at St. Anthony in 2010 after Paterson Catholic closed its doors for financial reasons. The duo helped St. Anthony go 33-0 and win the first of back-to-back Tournament of Champions titles in 2011 before Mack went off to Rutgers. Last season, Anderson led the Friars to a 32-0 mark before he landed at UCLA.

Now, Temple signee Josh Brown and Oregon State signee Hallice Cooke are the leaders of the current team.

Playing in front of Temple coach Fran Dunphy, Brown had 17 points, four rebounds and four assists in the win over Neptune, and Cooke added eight points.

“[Brown] has seen Myles Mack and he’s seen Lucious Jones two years ago and he’s seen Kyle Anderson and Jerome Frinke last year,” Hurley said. “You have to lead in your own way. Some guys have those outgoing personalities, some guys are quiet like Jerome Frink.

“So Josh is gotta right now because he’s a point [guard], he’s gotta be a little more vocal than maybe some of those guys. But I know he’s excited because the supporting group around him is very good and some of these younger guys around him, Jagen Mosely, has real good potential.” Mosely is the first freshman to start at St. Anthony since Elijah Ingram, Hurley said.

“Once they get their varsity leges, the older kids can lead and they don’t have to dominate the numbers,” Hurley said.

Brown knows he must take on a bigger role as he leads the team in the post-Kyle Anderson Era.

“I have a bigger role this year and I’m embracing it,” Brown said. “But it’s not just me, it’s not just Hallice, it’s a team sport. And we all just come together and at the end of the day we just want to get the victory.”

Next year, Brown is headed to an imploding Big East Conference where it is unclear who Temple will be facing in future years. With the seven Catholic schools having announced their plans to withdraw, Temple could end up with UConn, Cincinnati and South Florida as their only remaining Big East rivals.

“I’m just doing what I love to do, is play basketball,” Brown said. “Any conference, I’m going out there to just work hard, keep working on my game every day and reach my potential.”

Asked if wanted to face Georgetown and New Jersey native Reggie Cameron after the Catholics leave, Brown said, “I want to play against the best of the best, so it doesn’t really matter.”

Next year, Brown will join a Temple team that will also include Will Cummings and possibly Rysheed Jordan in the backcourt. Jordan is down to Temple, St. John’s and UCLA and will sign in the spring.

“I’m a team guy so I think it’s all going to work out,” Brown said. “We all play hard, we all got one goal and that’s winning so I think it will work tremendously.”

In the meantime, one more win at the high school level and Brown and his St. Anthony teammates will make modern-day New Jersey history.

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UNCASVILLE, Conn.

“It felt good but I wish they were cheering because we won,” said Rhody sophomore guard Mike Powell, who finished with 10 points, including back-to-back second-half 3-pointers in a game that was taut until the final minutes.

The Rams are now 0-3 entering Sunday’s consolation game against Seton Hall in the Hall of Fame Tip-Off Tournament and you can bet that doesn’t sit well with first-year coach Dan Hurley, a Seton Hall alumnus who comes from a family that is synonymous with winning and whose Hall of Fame father, St. Anthony coach Bob Hurley, sat courtside.

“Ideal would be 3-0,” Dan Hurley said in his typical deadpan.

He added in a voice hoarse from yelling and suffering: “Obviously, right now we’re not a good team. We’re transitioning to become one.”

Hurley lost only five games all of last season at Wagner, before leaving to take the Rhody job. And in nine years before that at St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, he went 223-21.

He will do his share of losing this year with a Rams team that has just nine scholarship players and was picked 15th in the 16-team Atlantic 10.

They got 37 combined points from guards Powell, Xavier Munford (16) and Andre Malone (11), but only four points and two rebounds from their starting frontcourt of Alwayne Bigby and freshman Jordan Hare, a 6-10 freshman with a big upside.

But his team fought like they had a real shot to beat the Buckeyes, a team coming off a Final Four appearance, because they did.

If it weren’t for DeShaun Thomas’s game-best 25 points, including 3-of-6 from beyond the arc, Rhody might have pulled off the upset.

“It hurts to lose and we’re disappointed,” Hurley said.

But in a lighter moment, he added: “It was exciting to play with a lot of spirit and a lot of fight against a top 5 national-caliber team that has a great chance to play in the Final Four.”

Still, Rhody figures to make a dramatic jump next year when they add transfers Gilvydas Biruta (Rutgers), Jarelle Reischel (Rice) and DeShon “Biggie” Minnis (Texas Tech), and recruits Hassan Martin, a 6-7 forward out of Curtis High School on Staten Island, and E.C. Matthews, a 6-4 point guard from Michigan.

“We’re gonna have a lot more depth on our team, better competitors, have a lot more talent, so we should be able to make a good push next year,” said Munford, a junior guard who played for Hurley at St. Benedict’s.

Still, this was a learning experience for Hurley’s young club, playing the No. 4 team in the country to a virtual deadlock until the final minutes.

“Obviously, with [Hurley's] background on this side of the coast he’s going to get great players up there and I think he’s got the right approach with what he’s doing,” Ohio State coach Thad Matta said.

“With the way they played tonight he may get there a little quicker than he thought he would.”

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The 6-foot-9 Anderson led St. Anthony to back-to-back New Jersey Tournament of Champions titles and a 65-0 record in his two seasons at the school. Among other things, the NCAA is looking into Anderson’s relationship with NBA agent Thad Foucher, who has a preexisting relationship with Kyle Anderson Sr. from their AAU days.

“I read about it, kind of read as much as I could about it and hope that it all gets resolved quickly because we’re going to try to see him over the Barclays Center in a few weeks [when UCLA plays in the Legends Classic Nov. 19-20],” Hurley told SNY.tv Thursday.

“I just don’t know anyone around him that would put him in this situation,” Hurley added. “He’s got a terrific family.

“I wasn’t involved in the recruiting process. “They kept me abreast of what was happening from one week to the next. But I don’s see that as the people that I know, so I’m hoping this thing all gets resolved and that he’s able to go out there and have a good year because I really expect him to have a terrific season.”

Hurley has previously told SNY.tv that Anderson, who was tabbed by CBSSports.com as the No. 6 best point guard in college basketball, is a “modern-day Magic Johnson.”

Anderson’s UCLA teammate, Shabazz Muhammad, is also being investigated by the NCAA. Both players are able to practice with the team, although Muhammad injured his right shoulder Wednesday at practice.

FOUR DIVISION I COMMITS

Without Anderson this season, St. Anthony has no true superstar, but they now have four Division 1 commits.

Josh Brown (Temple), Hallice Cooke (Oregon State), Kentrell Brooks (Marist) and Tim Coleman (NJIT) are all committed.

“Four done now and there’s two more seniors so I hope something works out for both of them,” Hurley said.

The other two seniors are 6-8 Canadian forward Aaron Ariri and 6-3 wing Cody Jenkins.

“[Ariri] is a four,” Hurley said. “We’ll try to build up his versatility. He’s a quick learner and a hard worker and we’re working with him on weight training. His body’s gotta get quicker, but he’s a very good prospect. The longer he’s here, once people are aware of him, I think he’ll definitely draw recruiting interest.”

Hurley compared Ariri to former St. Anthony power forward Jerome Frink, now at FIU.

“We’d like to think that because we had Jerome for four years, that by the time he’s a senior he learned certain things and that made him a very dangerous player,” Hurley said. “This kid has played a lot of good basketball and is pretty versatile and now we’re trying to figure out what he can be good at.”

He added: “There was some talk that he might reclassify if he doesn’t have enough recruiting interest, but the way he looks in the gym I think there will be enough schools interested in him and he can graduate and go on to a Division I school at the end of this year.”

As for the 6-5 Coleman, who committed to NJIT this past week, Hurley said.

“He might’ve been the strongest kid on our team last year,” he said. “If only for the knee injury he had two-thirds through the season people just kind of forgot about him.

“But he’s a tough, small 6-4 wing player. He can score. He rebounds. He plays very hard. He’s a really good kid to add to a college team. He’s personable, he does well in school school. He’s athletic, he’s a lefty, he can make a shot. So there’s a lot of good components there.”

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