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By DAVID DORSEY
FORT MYERS – Trevon Duval heard his coach with clarity. Almost 96 feet away from him stood teammate DeAndre Osuigwe, wide open.
“I told DeAndre to go hide in the corner, Bradenton IMG basketball coach Vince Walden said. Then Walden shouted to Duval to get him the ball. It didn’t take long for the 6-foot-3, 195-pound point guard, one considered the best in the class of 2017, to comply.
Duval threw a one-handed, full-court outlet pass to Osuigwe, who had open space to make a shot in the quarterfinals Monday night of the 44th Annual Culligan City of Palms Classic.
“It was old-school, no question,” Walden said of the pass.
Jarred Vanderbilt, the 6-8 small forward from Victory Prep
Mohamed Bamba, the 6-foot-11 big man from the Westtown (PA) School, is planning visits to Duke and Kentucky in the coming weeks, but has yet to set any dates.
So far, Bamba has only taken one official, to Texas the weekend of Oct. 29, in addition to going to Harvard on several occasions.
As for Duke, the Blue Devils would love to add him in the spring, when they will lose Amile Jefferson to graduation and possibly freshmen Harry Giles, Jayson Tatum and Marques Bolden to the NBA Draft.
“Brotherhood,” he told Scout.com of Duke’s recruiting pitch after putting up six points, five rebounds and three blocks as Westtown defeated 7-foot-1 DeAndre Ayton and Hillcrest Academy (AZ), 53-42, in the semifinals of the Signature Series of the City of Palms Classic.
“You can see it too. They go out there and get after it. Those guys are like a true brotherhood.”
Matt Coleman, the 6-foot-1, 174-pound point guard from Oak Hill (VA) Academy, is down to Duke and Texas, he told Scout.com.
Stanford is out of the mix.
“I could see a commitment coming within a month from now, but right now I just don’t have that feeling of where I want to go in my heart,” Coleman told me recently.
His most recent visit was to Texas at the end of October.
“Texas was real nice, I say they laid out the red carpet,” he said. “Just being there with my family and [head coach] Shaka [Smart] spending some time, I really enjoyed myself.”
Coleman visited along with 7-footer Mohamed Bamba of the Westtown (PA) School and the PSA Cardinals. Bamba is considering Texas along with Duke, Kentucky, Harvard and a few others, but also won’t sign until the spring.
