Lots of discussion on Bradley's newest recruit and signee, Andrew Davis...from the same school and academy that Michael Beasley once attended
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=15684
Not much has been made known - but he seems like a kid with a lot of potential...focused on basketball and getting better, and a great student.
One comment in the paper said...
"Coach Platt is the connection,” said Davis’ father, Dan Davis, a former Division I basketball player at Oklahoma City and now an attorney."
--but this can't be true, since Oklahoma City University has never beena D-I school!
Here is a story about another SIMILAR big guy from IMG --a 2010 recruit who just committed yesterday-
http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=9&c=2&cid=971429&nid=4972689&fhn=1
This guy- Alex Gavrilovic, was even more under the radar than Andrew Davis at IMG Academy.
http://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/recruiting/tracker/player?recruitId=103391&season=2010&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fncb%2frecruiting%2ftracker%2fplayer%3frecruitId%3d103391%26season%3d2010
Note what the coach at IMG said in the lower half of the article, since it applies to Andrew Davis too.
"During the season, IMG played 67 games, including contests against strong junior college teams in Florida and some of the best prep competition in the country.
“We play almost a pro season,” IMG coach Dan Barto told ScoutFriars.com. “That’s why our kids don’t have a problem with the physicality of the college game. We’ve had 55 players earn D1 scholarships over the past nine years and a number of our players are going that route this year.”
“Scoring and rebounding numbers really have no meaning for us. We don’t keep track. ...if (he) had played on a traditional high school team, he’d have averaged 22 and 15, but we have 22 players, we sometimes split our squads and sometimes he only played half a game, so its not really fair to talk about numbers,” said Barto."
Here's a video of this other kid - it's possible Davis is in some of these scenes...
You can them playing against top junior college opponents, like Daytona..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwAM4KX8nGA&feature=player_embedded
Here's a new name linked to BU - don't know much about him, but given where he's from, I'd have to think Coach AB III was the conneciton, and maybe that means we are not recruiting the kid any longer...
http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=8&c=1&nid=3878783
Here's a mention of Anthony Manuel...see last line..
http://yourseason.suntimes.com/2298466,052010-high-school-notebook.article
Every year the NBA pre-draft camp posts all the precise measurements on the players who attend in hopes of boosting their draft canches. Some of the measurements are interesting and this year is no different.
The ones that stand out the most:
--Jordan Eglseder - long hyped as 7ft-1 inch, is really only a little over 6-10!!
--Adam Koch is a true 6-8
--Osiris Eldridge is not 6-3 as many have long suspected, he topped out at only 6-2,
and OE's reach and wingspan are among the SMALLEST for any player in the 6-2 size range!
Among all the shooting guards at the NBA Predraft camp, Eldridge's measures are well below the standards and averages...
http://www.draftexpress.com/nba-pre-draft-measurements/?page=avepos&year=All
--Iowa State's Marquis Gilstrap was touted as a solid 6-7, but is really only a bit over 6-5 - so this'll hurt his draft chances
--Eric Boateng was once said to be a 7-footer, is really only 6-9.25!
--Tennessee's Wayne Chism is not 6-9, he's only a bit over 6-7
--Chas McFarland from Wake and also from Lovington, IL (just south of Decatur) - is 7-1 with a nearly 9-foot reach! Remember - all the D-I colleges and programs in the midwest overlooked and passed on this kid who ended up having a decent college career at Wake Forest!
http://www.draftexpress.com/nba-pre-draft-measurements
Here are some more predraft measurement surprises!!
-Evan Turner has a vertical that's almost 5 inches better than John Wall!!
-in the 25 yard sprint - John Wall 3.14 seconds, Evan Turner 3.27 seconds...more data to come.....
More followup on SIU's Kevin Dillard..
This story makes it more likely Dillard ends up at Dayton than at his other remaining option Alabama. Yesterday, Alabama coach Anthony Grant got a verbal from a top 2011 point guard (4-stars). Since Dillard would have to sit out until that year, he might not like having to compete or play backup to a really top talented kid like this with a HUGE upside..
http://scouthoops.scout.com/2/971487.html
http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=8&c=1&nid=4447637
Alabama also signed 2 top rated guards for their class of 2010- a 4-star point guard and a 4-star shooting guard-
http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=9&c=8&cfg=bb&toinid=567&yr=2010
I gotta think even Dillard is bright enough to see he'd be riding the pines there.
Before the University Oregon nearly ran out of candidates when hiring for their new basketball coaching vacancy - and before they had to settle for hiring Creighton's Dana Altman, they also pursued Illinois' Bruce Weber. In this interview with Illinois AD Ron Guenther, he says --
"I think it was very serious (Oregon's interest in Weber)," Guenther told the Champaign News-Gazette.
"I think the thing that Bruce and I have talked about consistently is having the security and having the place that you can build a program," Guenther said. "Maybe it's from him being with (former Purdue coach) Gene (Keady) for 19 years and Gene staying for so long at Purdue. And so I think he has great interest in this conference. I think he has a great interest in staying in Champaign."
So that brings to about a dozen, the number of names that were said to have been candidates approached by Oregon with offers before they finally nabbed Altman!
http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/05/guenther-oregon-had-interest-in-illinis-weber.html
Speaking of Illinois - one of their big wigs, AD Ron Guenther, discusses the possible addition of Missouri to the Big Ten...
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/illini/story/9217BA54329D016386257729000674C5?OpenDocument
Drake picks up a transfer - a kid who's bounced around quite a bit and never played much...was caught up in all the scandal and dismissals at Binghamton...
http://www.godrakebulldogs.com//ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=15700&ATCLID=204948897
Ex-ISU player (who played at ISU before they were in the MVC) Doug Collins is going to be the new coach of the Philadelphia Sixers...finally putting someone from ISU into the NBA!
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/basketball/bulls/2300338,doug-collins-philadelphia-76ers-coach-21.article
More evidence of the frenzy for just about any and every big man...
Kyle Cain, who just decommitted from mid-major Rhode Island...is now being hotly pursued by KENTUCKY and North Carolina!!
At least he seems to realize he would just be a backup at those schools.
http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=9&c=2&cid=971463&nid=4342161&fhn=1
More of the same -- still under probation for all the illegal phone calls made by Kelvin Sampson, University of Oklahoma is now under investigation for more illegal phone calls by an assistant.
http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0510/737700.html
This writer connects the dots and it's pretty clear the Oklahoma guys have been caught cheating again...
http://www.newsok.com/berry-tramel-basketball-incident-another-rotten-mess-for-sooners/article/3462752?custom_click=pod_headline_ou-sports
http://normantranscript.com/headlines/x433570929/Former-OU-aide-linked-to-financial-adviser
But as I have said many times....since Oklahoma is a big guy, a BCS school, they've gotten away with murder for decades, and they've NEVER been seriously penalized, even when they HAVE been caught cheating while on probation!!
Wake me up - or dig me up if it happens long after I am gone - when the NCAA ever hands down any significant penalty to a BCS school no matter how egregious or blatant the cheating is!!
Finally - as predicted many times, the marginally talented Percy Miller (also known as rapper "Lil Romeo") was booted form the USC basketball team, as he's no longer needed. The only reason he was ever recruited in the first place and offered a scholarship was because he was firends with a few top level recruits, specifically DeMar DeRozan...
He actually played 19 total minutes in his career at USC...lass thanmost walk ons ever play!
So, the BU guys won't see Percy when we play USC next season!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2010/05/usc-basketball-percy-lil-romeo-miller-leaves-team.html
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