Seton Hall Transfer Jaren Sina Has Suitors (UPDATED)
As expected, Seton Hall transfer Jaren Sina has
As expected, Seton Hall transfer Jaren Sina has
Melo Trimble arrived at the Rutgers Athletic Center Tuesday night as living, breathing, running and gunning proof that one special player — and one special recruiting class — can change the course of a college basketball program.
That has always been one thing I’ve loved about covering basketball. A class of one or two or three special players — each with his own unique story — can turn the fortunes of a basketball outfit pretty quickly.
A year after going 17-15 overall and 9-9 in the ACC, the No. 10 Terps are now 25-5 and 13-4 in their first year in the Big Ten following their 60-50 victory over Rutgers on the Scarlet Knights’ Senior Night.
Senior guard Dez Wells went for 20 points and 10 rebounds –and this dunk over two defenders that was No. 1 on the SportsCenter Top 10 — and Trimble had 10 points and 2 assists in the victory.
If the NCAA Tournament began today, the Terps would be be a dangerous 3 seed in the East, according to ESPN’s Joe Lunardi.
Indiana and Kansas were the first two schools to reach out to Thon Maker after he recently Tweeted he was “on track to graduate” in 2015.
The 7-foot, 211-pound Maker also says he’s “70 percent” that he will reclass to 2015, making him eligible for the 2016 NBA Draft.
“The messages were in the hundreds, in terms of college coaches and media reaching out to see what was going on,” Maker’s guardian, Ed Smith, told Franklyn Calle of Slam in this story. “It was a little bit of a firestorm for Thon, [head] Coach [Larry] Blunt and myself. [Assistant coach] Chuck Martin of Indiana was on it quick. He was the first college coach to reach out. And then [assistant coach] Kurtis Townsend of Kansas was next just moments later.”
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Ever since Isaiah Briscoe chose Kentucky over St. John’s in November, the Red Storm has been trying to regroup to find their point guard of the future.
Now things may be coming to a head.
Marcus LoVett, a 6-foot point guard from Chicago (IL) Morgan Park, Tweeted Monday morning, “In a week I’ll be making my decision.”
LoVett didn’t specify when and where he will announce his college choice, but he and his father have both given reason to believe the player could land at St. John’s.
“NY seems like a nice place to go,” LoVett Tweeted recently.
Kassoum Yakwe, a 6-7 2016 forward from Our Savior New American, says he may attend prep school next year or reclass to 2015.
“I have all of my courses done in school,” Yakwe told Travis Hines of the Ames Tribune while visiting Iowa State for Monday’s game against Oklahoma.
“It’s good for me to go to college or go to prep school to work on my game. I can go to college and redshirt and make sure I’m going to play or go to prep school. Me and my guardian are making the decision.
“I’m not going back to high school.”
By JACK LeGWIN
LAKELAND, Fla.– Not many players get to accomplish in their whole career what Dewan Huell has accomplished in only three years.
When Miami Norland won their fourth straight 6A State Championship, that meant that juniors Huell, and teammate David-Jean Baptiste had won three state championships in the three years that they had played for head coach Lawton Williams at Miami Norland. The win gave Williams his sixth state championship win.
“Not too many kids have three rings,” Huell told SNY.tv. “Not many schools four-peat.”
