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    • Recruiting, UConn

    During the same week UConn picked up St. John’s transfer Sid Wilson, the Huskies also hosted a critical recruit in the Class of 2018.

    Jalen Carey, the 6-foot-3, 170-pound point guard from the Playaz and Montclair (N.J.) Immaculate Conception, enjoyed his official visit to UConn and will next head to Syracuse on Sept. 8.

    “He is a priority and they plan in two years to get [him] to the league,” John Carey, the player’s father, told ZAGSBLOG about UConn. “They love him.”

    Carey previously visited Miami, which could lose guards Lonnie Walker and Bruce Brown to the NBA Draft, and are prioritizing Carey to help replace them.

    UConn

    UConn has landed a pledge from St. John’s transfer Sidney Wilson.

    “Sid is going to UConn,” his father told ZAGSBLOG.

    The 6-foot-7 wing from The Bronx who spent last season at prep power Brewster (N.H.) Academy after transferring from St. Raymond’s High School announced his transfer from St. John’s this week. He must sit out the 2017-18 season and can suit up for the Huskies in 2018-19. UConn is expected to file a waiver request with the NCAA seeking permission for Wilson to play immediately this season.

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    “It was a difficult decision to leave St. John’s but this was best for Sid and his growth,” Sidney Wilson Sr. told Rivals. “Not just on the basketball court but mentally, as well. Being in the city was more of a burden, which was really the first reason why I moved him from out of it to Brewster. I kind of lost sight of it when he came back.

    “Him not being home for a year and a half, I missed him a lot and so did his sister. However, I forgot the initial reason why I moved him: to get some growth and to become comfortable with losing his mother [in 2015].”

    UConn

    Calling the UConn Huskies’ 2016-17 season tumultuous would be an understatement.

    In November, UConn lost two key players — Alterique Gilbert and Terry Larrier — to season-ending injuries.

    After finishing 16-17, three players opted to transfer, two key frontcourt players graduated, a coach departed the staff and the program’s top recruit asked to be released from his Letter of Intent so he could go elsewhere.

    That’s not the type of season they’re used to up in Storrs, Conn., where the Huskies have won four NCAA championships since 1999.

    “Coach [Kevin] Ollie, we met and he we took some time and one of the things he constantly talked about was identifying what a UConn man was, identifying how we wanted to play and we also talked a lot about culture and trying to figure out the right guys that were going to fit,” UConn assistant Dwayne Killings said on The 4 Quarters Podcast.

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