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Zach Brown, the 7-foot-2, 265-pound big man who recently committed to UConn, could potentially reclass and land on campus in 2016 instead of 2017.
Still, Putnam Science Academy (CT) coach Tom Espinosa thinks it’s doubtful.
He told Dave Borges of the New Haven Register there’s “a very slim chance” that will happen. “I think he’ll be back here next year.”
“I think he would benefit a lot more coming back,” Espinosa said. “He’s got a lot of work to do. In Miami, he put up big numbers, but he wasn’t playing against the highest competition that he’s gonna play here, at a prep school in New England.”
Brown committed to UConn on Jan. 20 and then announced his transfer to Putnam Science, which also features 2016 UConn commit Mamadou Diarra and 2017 target Hamidou Diallo.
“Defensively, he’s kind of way behind, I believe,” Espinosa said of Brown. “But offensively, he’s very quick, he keeps the ball high, he’s got great up-and-under moves. The last two days of practice, he’s dominated.”
UConn’s four-man 2016 recruiting class of Diarra, point guard Alterique Gilbert, small forward Vance Jackson and power forward Juwan Durham is ranked No. 6 nationally by Scout.com.
