Andre Drummond, the No. 1 player in the Class of 2012, will visit Rutgers unofficially Feb. 20 for the UConn game.
The 6-foot-11, 270-pound Drummond will likely visit with Matt Quinn, the son of St. Thomas More coach Jere Quinn.
“He’s a good kid and I like Freddie [Hill] and those people so I’ll try to help them out,” Jere Quinn said of the Rutgers coach. “If we get him down there maybe they’ll like [Hill] a little better.”
Quinn has previously coached several players who ended up at Rutgers, including former NBA guard Quincy Douby and former Rutgers guard Justin Sofman, now at Monmouth.
Drummond could be the best player Quinn ends up coaching.
“He could be the best center in the country as a sophomore,” Quinn said. “He’s ranked the No. 1 sophomore in the country right now. He’s 6-11, 270. He runs like a deer.”
Quinn said everyone from UConn to North Carolina had called on Drummond but that he was in no hurry to narrow his list.
“Everybody in the world is talking to him right now,” Quinn said. “I told him, ‘You’re two years away and we’ll make some decisions at the end of your junior year. There are so many things that change in college basketball. To make a decision about what you’re gonna do now doesn’t make sense.'”
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