School Lists
Here are some school lists that I got from players at the Reebok Summer Classic East, the Joe Brown Memorial Tournament, and through telephone communication:
Lamont McClaurin ’11, Cardinal Dougherty (PA): Michigan St., Syracuse, and Virginia
Offers: None
Favorite: None
Dream School: North Carolina
Juan’ya Green ’11, Archbishop Carroll (PA): Villanova, Maryland, St. Joseph’s, Syracuse, and Ohio St.
Offers: Villanova
Favorites: Villanova, Maryland, St. Joseph’s, and Syracuse, with Maryland as number one
Dream School: North Carolina
Shaquille Thomas ’10, Paterson Catholic (NJ): Virginia Tech, Xavier, Providence, Rutgers, Clemson, St. John’s, Kansas, LaSalle, and Fordham
Offers: Xavier and Fordham
Favorites: Virginia Tech, Xavier, and Providence, with Virginia Tech and Xavier as the top two about whom he said, “I like them a lot,” but he did say “I’m open for anything right now.”
Laquan Mendenhall ’10, Kolbe Cathedral (CT): Temple, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Rutgers, Post, and North Carolina Central
Offers: None
Favorite: Temple
Dream School: North Carolina St.
Rod Odom ’10, Middlesex Prep (MA): Stanford, Columbia, Georgetown, Providence, UPenn, and Harvard
Offers: None
Favorite: Georgetown
Dream School: Georgetown
Brian Voelkel ’10, Iona Prep (NY): Princeton, American, St. Joseph’s, and Manhattan
Offers: None
Favorites: None, “I don’t really have one.”
Note- he said he has an average in school of about an “80.”
Steve Rennard ’10, St. Joseph’s (Metuchen, NJ): Princeton, UPenn, Lafayette, Bucknell, Vermont, Lehigh, NJIT, and Brown
Offers: None
Favorites: None
Note- he said he has a “4.0” GPA
Wayne Newsom ’10, Piscataway (NJ): Robert Morris, Iona, Dartmouth, and Rhode Island
Offers: Robert Morris and Iona
Favorites: None, “I don’t have any.”
Ashton Pankey ’10, St. Anthony’s (NJ): Virginia, Virginia Tech, Syracuse, St. John’s, Hofstra, Rutgers, Xavier, Temple, and Kentucky
Offers: Virginia, Virginia Tech, Hofstra, and Xavier
Favorites: Virginia, Virginia Tech, Syracuse, and Xavier, and he said “my top school [is] probably Syracuse.”
Dream School: “I don’t really have one. . . . I would like to go to Florida, [or] North Carolina, [or] Syracuse.”
Note- he said this on the chances of him going to college with AAU & soon-to-be high school teammate Devon Collier: “It’s possible, he [and I] . . . are real close. . . .It’s a high possibility.
Devon Collier ’10, St. Anthony’s (NJ): St. John’s, Fordham, Syracuse, Villanova, Florida, Miami, Virginia, and Virginia Tech
Offers: St. John’s, Fordham, Virginia, and Virginia Tech
Favorites: None, “I don’t have a favorite right now, I’m just open-minded.”
Dream School: None, “I don’t really have dream school, I’m just trying to see which school fits me best.”
Note- he said that he transferred to St. Anthony’s for a “better basketball environment. I like the academics [and it’s] . . . not far away from me.”
Jayvaughn Pinkston ’10, Bishop Loughlin (NY): Florida, Villanova, UConn, Marquette, Rutgers, Seton Hall, St. John’s, Xavier, and Virginia Tech
Offers: he is unsure of who has offered
Favorites: Florida, Villanova, Marquette, St. John’s, and Memphis, saying “most of the schools” are his favorites, with Florida being number one
Dream School: Florida
Mike LaPlante ’11, St. Andrew’s (RI): Princeton, Boston College, and South Florida
Offers: None
Favorite: Princeton
Dream School: Syracuse
Sherrod Wright ’09, Mt. Vernon (NY): Villanova, Nebraska, Kentucky, Marquette, Syracuse, Wake Forest, Florida, Proidence, Pitt, Xavier, South Carolina, Georgia Tech, Virginia, UMass, UConn, George Mason, St. John’s, Rutgers, Seton Hall, North Carolina St., and Oklahoma St.
Offers: Xavier, South Carolina, Georgia Tech, Virginia, UMass, Oklahoma St.
Favorites: None
Notes- he said that “right now, [Mt. Vernon] doesn't’t have basketball a basketball” program, and needs “1.1 million” dollars, though he said that the school will “most definitely” get it. As well, he plans on cutting his list down in late August or September.
Paul Bilbo ’09, St. Dominic (NY): Hofstra, Manhattan, Columbia, Lafayette, Dartmouth, Harvard, Davidson, Wagner, Holy Cross, and Lehigh
Offers: Hofstra and Manhattan
Favorites: Hofstra, Manhattan, and Columbia are his top three, but he does not have a top choice
Note- he has “at least a 3.0” GPA
Rashaun Stores ’09, All Hallows (NY): Manhattan, Drexel, and Marist
Offers: Manhattan
Favorite: Manhattan
Note- he said that “there are some other [schools he] doesn't’t even know about,” that his AAU coach does know
Omari Lawrence ’09, South Kent (CT): Florida, Marquette, Virginia, Louisville, Kentucky, St. John’s, West Virginia, Memphis, Arizona, Clemson, Pitt, Seton Hall, Georgetown, and Xavier, saying that “the whole Big East and the ACC” are recruiting him
Offers: West Virginia, Louisville, Memphis, Pitt, Seton Hall, St. John’s, Arizona, Clemson, Georgetown, Xavier
Favorite: St. John’s is at the “top of my list,” he said
Note- he said that he did not play in the Playaz Ball due to a “torn . . . muscle . . . in [his] shoulder, [that will have him] . . . out for two to three months,” and said his reasoning for transferring to South Kent because of “the whole Kevin [Parrom] and [Oliver] Antigua situation, . . . [and his] family went up there and liked it.”
Shaq Stokes ’11, St. Patrick’s (NJ): Miami and Villanova
Offers: Miami
Favorite: Miami
Note- there are other schools recruiting him that he could not think of
Abdul Gaddy '09, Bellarmine Prep (WA): Arizona, Texas, Memphis, Cal, Florida, Washington, UCLA, USC, Oregon, and Kansas
Offers: All
Favorites: None
Dream School: Arizona
Note- after de-committing from Arizona, Gaddy said that he wanted to go to college with AAU teammate Avery Bradley '09, so I asked him which school both of them are considering, but he said "I [don't know] what schools he is considering."



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