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    • Articles, Roselle Catholic

    Briscoe Peach Jam actionHere are a few quick recruiting hits on Monday night/Tuesday morning:

    **Kentucky assistant Barry “Slice” Rohrssen is expected to meet with Roselle (N.J.) Catholic point guard Isaiah Briscoe and his coach Dave Boff on Tuesday at RC. St. John’s coach Steve Lavin is due in Thursday, Boff confirmed to SNY.tv. The 6-foot-3 Briscoe is slated to visit Missouri this weekend along with Antonio Blakeney and Thomas Bryant and will then trip to St. John’s Oct. 17 with Cheick Diallo and Brandon Sampson. Briscoe recently visited Seton Hall, Kentucky and UConn. Briscoe confirmed to SNY.tv that he plans to decide soon.

    Recruiting

    2014 adidas NationsIn a wide-ranging interview with Evan Daniels of Scout.com, Jaylen Brown, the No. 1 player in the Class of 2015, said he’s added North Carolina to his list and discussed several schools he’s considering.

    The 6-foot-6 Brown is set to visit Kansas this weekend for “Late Night in the Phog,” Kentucky Oct. 17 for “Big Blue Madness” and potentially UCLA on Nov. 15.

    “My first one is next weekend for Late Night in the Phog at Kansas,” Brown told Daniels at the USA Basketball mini-camp in Colorado Springs, CO. “Then I have one the following the weekend at Kentucky for Big Blue Madness. Then I have an unofficial date for November 15th with UCLA but that might get pushed up, but it might not.”

    Articles, Kentucky

    In his 17 years as the basketball coach at St. Raymond’s High School in The Bronx, Gary DeCesare estimates that 20 of his 35 players who committed to Division 1 schools never signed a National Letter of Intent.

    Instead, DeCesare advised them to sign scholarship papers only because he is staunchly opposed to the NLI.

    “I’ve never encouraged kids to sign a National Letter of Intent because what a lot of parents don’t know is that there’s two pieces of paper,” DeCesare, who now coaches at St. Rita’s in Chicago, told SNY.tv. “One is the National Letter and one is the scholarship papers, and the National Letter binds you to the school, the scholarship papers binds the school to you.”

    Articles, Recruiting

    RawleNEW YORK — Between Seton Hall’s Basketball Tip-Off Party on Friday, the Michigan-Rutgers football game on Saturday and the Jim Couch National Training Showcase on Sunday, there was a lot going on in the New York/New Jersey hoops world this weekend.

    Here are some recruiting notes from those events:

    **Rawle Alkins, the 6-foot-5 2016 Christ the King guard, was among those on hand at Seton Hall Friday night and also has upcoming visits planned to Villanova (Oct. 24) and Indiana (Oct. 25), he told SNY.tv. He will also trip to either Providence or N.C. State the weekend of Oct. 17.

    “I went to [Seton Hall’s] Midnight Madness,” Alkins told SNY.tv at the Jim Couch event Sunday at Mott Haven Campus in New York. “It was fun. They had a suite for me. I was hanging out with a lot of celebrities. They talked about the program. They showed me around a little bit.”

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