Cole Anthony visits Wake Forest, North Carolina
By ADAM ZAGORIA Cole Anthony, the No. 1-rated
By JACOB POLACHECK
Cole Anthony, the 6-foot-3 combo guard from Archbishop Molloy (NY) High School, will transfer to Oak Hill (VA) Academy for his senior season.
“We’re deciding to attend Oak Hill Academy,” he said on ESPNU.
Chandler Lawson Cam Thomas, Lynn Greer, Tobias Rotegard and fellow New York City prep star Kobi Cockburn will also join Anthony at Oak Hill next year.
“We are so excited that Cole will be joining the Oak Hill basketball family,” Oak Hill head coach Steve Smith told ZAGSBLOG Saturday. “We have a long history of outstanding point guards who have played for us,” “Nine have gone on to play in the NBA. I think Cole has the potential to be the next great one.”
“I love his ability to create for his teammates and himself,” he said. “He has tremendous court vision and a great feel for making the right plays. “
By ADAM ZAGORIA Several schools in hot pursuit
By ADAM ZAGORIA
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — Cole Anthony says he doesn’t know yet where he’ll be spending his senior year of high school, but it won’t be at New York powerhouse Archbishop Molloy, his home for the last three years.
The 6-foot-3 New York City point guard, ranked No. 2 in the Class of 2019 by Rivals.com and the winner of a gold medal this summer with the USA U18 team, is looking for a new home for his senior year.
“I have no idea yet,” Anthony said Friday at the Peach Jam, where he’s playing with the New York-based PSA Cardinals.
Greg Anthony, the former NBA player and Cole’s father, said they have had discussions with several national powerhouses, including Oak Hill Academy (VA), Montverde Academy (FL), IMG Academy (FL) and Findlay Prep (NV), but they haven’t made a decision yet.
Cole Anthony says he has ‘no idea’ where he will play HS ball next year and says it will be hard to leave his family in NYC. Wants to win a national championship in HS. @FloHoops https://t.co/vm6O0joAyz
— Adam Zagoria (@AdamZagoria) July 13, 2018
“It’s obviously getting close to a time where we’re going to have to really think about it,” Greg said. “We haven’t focused on it yet because we had FIBA Americas and now we got this, so that’s kind of what our focus is.”
He added: “We just don’t know yet….That stuff’s not where we are right now.”
By ADAM ZAGORIA
ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO — Fresh off watching Justify win the Triple Crown at the Belmont Stakes in New York on Saturday, Kentucky coach John Calipari made an appearance here Monday night to watch several top prospects in a blowout of epic proportions.
Calipari and assistant Tony Barbee were among the coaches courtside for Tyrese Maxey, Matthew Hurt and Cole Anthony as the U.S. destroyed Panama, 118-26, in the FIBA Americas U18 Championship at the Meridian Centre.
“He just tries to help me get better always, tells me the things I need to work on,” Maxey, a Class of 2019 Kentucky commit, said of his future coach after going for 12 points and 3 assists in the lopsided loss. “He’s just checking in, saying hello all the time, asks me how I’m doing.”
By ADAM ZAGORIA
The July recruiting period doesn’t begin for another couple of weeks, but college coaches will be flocking to Canada beginning Sunday to watch Cole Anthony and the USA U18 team compete in the FIBA Americas Championship in St. Catharines, Ontario.
College coaches are now permitted to watch the USA Basketball youth teams train in Colorado Springs, CO., and compete in their various international events — even when they don’t occur during live periods. The USA plays its first game Sunday evening against the Dominican Republic before facing Panama and the Dominican Republic Monday and Tuesday. The quarterfinals, semis and finals run Thursday-Saturday.
The 6-foot-3 Anthony from Archbishop Molloy (N.Y.) is ranked No. 6 in the 2019 ESPN 60 and is the highest-ranked guard on the USA team. Coaches from Villanova, Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Oregon, Louisville, Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Ohio State are among those expected to watch Anthony, who is focused on bringing home a gold medal. A spokesman for the event said at last count, they were expecting about 30 American schools to be on hand.
“Me personally, I’m wide open in my recruitment,” Anthony said this week by phone from Colorado. “I just love to see as many college coaches as I can.”
By ADAM ZAGORIA The recruitment of Class of
