Recruiting Roundup: Weekend Visits and Tidbits
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Filip Petrusev, the 6-foot-11, 215-pound Serbian forward from Montverde (FL) Academy, enjoyed his official visit to Tennessee last weekend and his weighing his future plans.
“The visit was great,” he said. “I’m really happy with what I have seen, great facilities, campus, coaches, bigtime basketball. They said that they need a more talented player than the ones they have who can make [an] immediate impact and play right away. That’s why they made me a No. 1 priority.”
Petrusev has also taken an official to Charlotte.
“Charlotte has a Serbian coach [Ivo Simovic] and Serbian players [Milos Supica and Luka Vasic],” he said of their appeal.
Derrick Walker, the 6-foot-8 power forward from Sunrise Christian (OK) Academy, announced his commitment to Tennessee on Friday.
Proud and blessed to announce that I will be attending the university of Tennessee #SEC #volsnation pic.twitter.com/mhYN7m8gnK
— Derrick Walker (@derric__k) February 3, 2017
“I felt the program is moving in a great direction,” Walker told Scout.com. “Rick Barnes is a great coach and Rob Lanier did a great job of recruiting me, but also as a young team they showed accountability amongst themselves.”
Walker, who ran with MoKan Elite on the Nike EYBL circuit last year, chose Tennessee over St. John’s and Georgia. He joins 6-10 Blair (N.J.) Academy stretch four Zach Kent as the second commit in the Vols’ 2017 class.
Walker took an official to Tennessee last month (Jan. 2).
Walker took his final visit to St. John’s last weekend and was at Madison Square Garden Sunday night for the Red Storm’s 82-77 loss to Xavier.
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