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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