Martin Geben is off the board.
The 6-foot-9 Lithuanian forward from Hagerstown (Md.) St. Maria Goretti pulled the trigger for Notre Dame, choosing the Irish over Virginia.
“He pulled the trigger today,” St. Maria Goretti coach Amrit Rayfield told SNY.tv.
Geben visited Notre Dame last week and it went well.
Thursday was quite a day for the folks at Roselle (N.J.) Catholic.
First, they received the news that Tyler Roberson had been cleared to play this season at Syracuse, as we reported here.
And they also learned that 6-foot-9 2015 power forward Chris Silva had picked up an offer from Syracuse. Associate head coach Mike Hopkins is expected to watch Silva in person at RC on Sept. 15.
Of course, Syracuse is also recruiting 2015 RC guard Isaiah Briscoe.
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Could a former Seton Hall player who’s now at Illinois influence a former Louisville commit to join the Illini?
Illinois guard Aaron Cosby — who transferred from Seton Hall — will host Quentin Snider on his visit to Illinois this weekend.
Both Cosby and Snider are from Louisville and have played ball together since middle school. Their fathers know one another, too.
“Coach [John] Groce said Aaron told them they needed to get in contact with us,” Scott Snider told the News Gazette of the day in July when Snider decommitted from Louisville. “They looked him up and everything and called either that night or early the next morning.”
Michael Chandler, the 6-foot-10, 245-pound center from Northwest Florida State, will visit Arizona and Oregon this month and plans to decide by October, his uncle told SNY.tv.
The former Louisville, UCF and Xavier commit has not set dates for the visits but definitely plans on taking them.
“Those two schools are definitely bringing him in for a visit,” Allan Chandler told SNY.tv by phone Friday morning.
“Right now the big fella, his feeling is we’ve done been throught this a lot with the recruiting, we done been through it. Right now he doesn’t want to have to go through all this stuff. He’s going to take his visits and then decide where to go.”
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Whether Tyler Ulis and Devin Booker end up packaging together in college remains to be seen, but both players have talked about it.
Ulis, a point guard from Chicago, and Booker, a shooting guard from Missouri, will both be at Michigan State together on their visit today and Saturday and will then head to Kentucky on Sunday and Monday.
“There’s a natural connection there,” James Ulis told the Detroit Free Press of his son and Booker’s relationship developed on the AAU circuit.
“If I’m Devin and I want to find a point guard who really knows how to give the ball up and be unselfish, who really knows how to get shots for people, I think that’s how the connection started,” James Ulis added. “Now I think they’re starting to think it could be a reality. They certainly talk about it more than any of us have.”
Paul Jorgensen, a 6-foot-2, 180-pound point from Don Bosco Prep in North Jersey, verbally committed to George Washington Thursday night.
“I chose to commit to GW over Fairfield, Harvard, Lehigh and Quinnipiac because I loved the city of DC,” Jorgensen told SNY.tv.
“The coaching staff was amazing and I feel my game can grow there.”
New Heights coach Chris Alesi said Jorgensen can help coach Mike Lonergan’s club.
