Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Recruiting News

In this post, some recruiting updates from around the Ivy League.



For a list of committed players to attend Ivy League schools, including profiles of incoming Cornell recruits, and a listing of Cornell's prospective recruiting targets, click here. For a list of general Ivy League prospective recruiting targets, click here. Please note that we update these lists daily.

Below is a listing of the dates of the Ivy League basketball camps which typically compete with one another for position in inviting the top Ivy League prospects.
  • Yale June 3-5
  • Princeton June 12-14
  • Penn June 17-19
  • Columbia (Session 1 - June 17-19, Session 2 - June 19-21)
  • Brown June 23-25
  • Cornell June 25-26
  • Harvard June 25-27
  • Dartmouth June 27-30
Class of 2012 Recruiting News

Matt Christiansen (Bishop McGuinness HS) Tulsa, Oklahoma, 6-9, F, committed to San Francsico over an offer from Harvard per Rivals.com.

Northstar Basketball Blog reports that Aldin Medunjanin (Millbrook School) Millbrook, NY, 6-2, G, has interest from Yale, Siena, Holy Cross, Niagara, Hofstra, and Tufts. He does not have any offers but will be visiting Holy Cross this summer.

Jeremy Schulkin (Westtown School) West Chester, PA, 6-6, F is hearing from Penn per Recruit Scoop.

The New Haven Register reports that Kris Dunn (New London HS) New London, CT, 6-3, G, has offers from Providence, Rhode Island and Massachusetts and has interest from UConn, Boston College, Georgia Tech and Stanford. He visited Harvard last year.

Rivals.com reports that Nate McGinley (Centaurus HS) Lafayette, CO, 6-3, G, has Yale, Northern Colorado, American, Colorado, and Colorado State among interested schools.

Scout.com reports that Larry Wideman (Green Sea Floyds HS) Green Sea, SC, 6-4, G, has a list of Princeton, Yale, Wofford, Winthrop, Old Dominion and Jacksonville.

Victor Rohlf (Sagemont Upper HS) Westmont, FL, 6-3, G, has widespread Ivy interest from Brown, Columbia, Penn and Yale as well as from Hartford.

Tanner Giddings (Windsor HS) Windsor, CA 6-9, C, lists Yale and Cal Poly as schools of interest per Rivals.com.

Thomas Sjoberg (St. Thomas Academy) Mendota Heights, MN, 6-5, G, recently visited Cornell and is also hearing from Yale and Penn per the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Eric Fanning (The Perkiomen School) Pennsburg, PA, 6-5, G, has a steady list of low majors contacting him including, Dartmouth, Penn, Florida Atlantic, Colgate, The Citadel, Army, Quinnipiac, Stony Brook, St. Francis, Coastal Carolina, and Maryland Eastern Shore.

According to Rivals.com, Michael Obacha (Oak Ridge Military) Oak Ridge, NC, 6-8, F, has offers from Tennessee Tech, Tennessee St., Appalachian State, Furman and UNC-Greensboro and is also hearing from Penn.

The Northfield Mount Hermon School reports on the recruitment of several of its players. from the classes of 2012 and 2013. Skyler White (Northfield Mt. Hermon School) Northfield, MA, 6-8, F (class of '13) and Lucas Van Ness (Northfield Mt. Hermon School) Northfield, MA, 6-10, F (class of '12) attended the elite camps at Columbia, Penn and Yale. Also at the Penn Camp were Anthony Dallier (Northfield Mt. Hermon School) Northfield, MA, 6-6, F (class of '13), Sam Donahue (Northfield Mt. Hermon School) Northfield, MA, 6-0, G (class of '13) and Will DeFanti (Northfield Mt. Hermon School) Northfield, MA, 5-10, G (class of '13). Dallier already has an offer from Duquesne and recently visited Stanford.

Derrico Peck (Northview HS) Duluth, GA, 6-5, F, has interest from Harvard, Tennesseee Tech, Charleston, Liberty and East Carolina per Rivals.com.

Class of 2013 Recruiting News

Crown Magazine writes that Agunwa Okolie (Denis O’Connor School), Ajax, Ontario, 6-7, F, has interest from Cornell, Stanford, Elon and Lafayette.

Marquise Coleman (Booker T. Washington HS) Norfolk, VA, 5-9, G, is hearing from Brown and Penn per Rivals.com.

Darian Harris (Shiloh Christian) Springdale, AR, 6-4, G, has a list of Yale, Tulane, Tulsa, Denver, Oral Roberts, Missouri State, Texas A&M, and Kansas according to Rivals.com.

Matt Howard (AC Flora HS) Columbia, SC, 6-4, G, is hearing from Cornell, Harvard, Davidson, Furman, Holy Cross, Bucknell, George Mason, Notre Dame, Virginia, Cal, Wisconsin, Iowa State and Arizona State, among many others per Rivals.com.

Rivals reports that Steve Vasturia (St. Joseph's HS) Philadelphia, PA, 6-4, G, has heard from Penn, Davidson, Boston College, St. Joseph's, LaSalle, Temple, Rutgers and Seton Hall among others.

Nolan Berry (DeSmet HS) Saint Louis, MO, 6-7, F, has heard from Harvard, Saint Louis, Southern Illinois, Loyola-IL, Butler and Vanderbilt among many others according to Rivals.

Ariel Watson (Good Counsel HS) Wheaton, MD, 6-3, G, has heard from Yale, Lafayette and LaSalle.

TheRecruitScoop provided steady updates in the last week on Ivies contacting members of the class of 2013. Below are some of those updates.

Nigel Williams-Goss (Findlay Prep) Las Vegas, NV, 6-2, G, has early suitors including Columbia, Harvard,Washington State, USC, UCLA, Arizona, Georgia Tech, and Oklahoma. Per Rivals.com, he has offers already from Hawaii, Oregon, Oregon State, UNLV and Washington.

Goodluck Okonoboh (Tilton School) Tilton, NH, 6-7, F, has heard from Harvard, Penn, Louisville, Penn State, Florida, Georgia Tech, Syracuse, DePaul, Pitt, West Virginia, Providence, Texas and Temple.

Davon Reed (Princeton Day School) Princeton, NJ, 6-4, G, has heard from Dartmouth, Penn, Harvard, Stanford, Villanova, Baylor, and Virginia Tech among many others. According to Rivals.com, offers are already on the table from Rutgers, Seton Hall, LaSalle, St. Joseph's, Temple, VCU and West Virginia.

Javion Ogunyemi (Troy HS) Troy, NY, 6-6, F, has heard from Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Miami (FL), Temple, UMass, Providence and St. Joseph's .

Steve Haney (Eastern HS) East Lansing, MI, 6-5, G, has offers already on the table from Western Michigan and Central Michigan and is getting steady interest from multiple BCS schools as well as Cornell and Harvard.

Alec Wintering (Cannon School), Concord, NC, 5-10, G, has heard from Yale, Penn, Rice, Mercer, VCU, Duquesne, Davidson, Richmond, San Diego, and High Point.

Stephen Domingo (St. Ignatius HS) San Francisco, CA, 6-5, G, is hearing from Princeton, Harvard, Penn, Stanford, Cal, San Francisco, San Diego St., Georgetown, UCLA, Washington, Washington State, and Arizona.


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Roster Report: Capsule Look at Key Cornell Returning and Graduating Players

Below, a brief capsule look at some of the returning and graduating personnel from Cornell's roster...
  • The following is the player production in Ivy League conference games Cornell is losing with its three graduated seniors from the 2010-2011 roster:
Mark Coury (14 games, 3 starts, 18.1 minutes, 6.4 points, 4.4 rebounds, 50% FGs)
Adam Wire (14 games, 4 starts, 16.8 minutes, 3.9 points, 4.1 rebounds, 47% FGs)
Aaron Osgood (5 games, 2 starts, 18.8 minutes, 4.4 points, 3.6 rebounds, 53% FGs)
  • Cornell's returning interior players on the 2011-2012 roster posted the following averages in Ivy League conference games:
Josh Figini (12 games, 9 starts, 8.5 minutes, 3.8 points, 1.7 rebounds, 37% FGs)
Eitan Chemerinski (13 games, 7.7 minutes, 2.4 points, 1.7 rebounds, 56% FGs)
  • Cornell returns four players next season that shot at least 38% or better from beyond the arc in Ivy League conference games a year ago. The Big Red also return three double figure scorers. These players include:
Andrew Ferry (38/92, 41%) (11.6 points per game)
Chris Wroblewski (21/50, 42%) (13.0 points per game)
Errick Peck (16/42, 38%) (11.7 points per game)
Max Groebe (21/55, 38%) (7.0 points per game)

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

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Cam Long has last workout before NBA draft with Wizards

Today Cam Long had his final team workout with the Washington Wizards before this Thursday's NBA draft. To date he has already worked out with a couple of other NBA teams including the Warriors, Thunder, Bobcats and Timberwolves You can watch his post workout interview with the media here. There is also a few highlights here of the group he worked out with which included local Georgetown star Chris Wright.

Long has received more attention from the scouts than guys like Folarin Campbell and Will Thomas got back when they went through these workouts.  Some NBA mock draft sites even have Long being drafted late in the 2nd round. I think that is a stretch and ideally players don't like being drafted in the second round. For one there isn't guaranteed money like being selected in the 1st round and also they would often have a better chance of making a team by picking the right opportunity as a free agent later on.  

News and Notes: Tuesday Edition

Above and below, images from the official game program of the 2009-2010 Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival at which Cornell took the championship with wins over Davidson and St. John's. Jeff Foote ('10) was named Tournament MVP with Ryan Wittman ('10) also named to the All Tournament team. Earlier in the season, Cornell swept through the Legends Classic an undefeated 4-0, knocking off UMass, Toledo, Vermont and Drexel with Wittman and Jon Jaques ('10) named to the All Tournament team. Wittman was also the recipient of the MVP honors. Below, news and notes for Tuesday...

  • NJHoops.com reports that Montez Blair, a 6'3" wing forward out of Timber Creek, NJ is headed to Cornell to compete as a triple jumper on the track & field team. Blair received some recruitment attention from Cornell's basketball program while he was in high school. Ultimately, he attended Navy as a freshman and played on the Midshipmen basketball team. During 2009-2010, Blair appeared in 11 games for the Midshipmen, transferring midseason when he was dissatisfied with life at the Academy. He averaged 5.2 minutes per game with a 2.4 points per game average at Navy, shooting, 35% from the floor and 32% beyond the arc. As a sophomore, he played half a season during 2010-2011 with Iowa Western, a junior college. He averaged 13.8 points and 4.4 rebounds per game for one of the better junior college programs in the country and earned scholarship offers as a transfer for basketball from IPFW, Southern Utah, Eastern Illinois and Dartmouth per Juco Junction, but opted to compete in track at Cornell. Below, some local media coverage of Blair's arrival at Iowa Western.


  • Fans interested in summer league news can check out the NCAA website which provides links to several of these certified leagues, many of which include include incoming and returning Cornell and Ivy League players, as well as some former players. Some of the following Cornell players are expected to be in summer leagues this summer:
Errick Peck-Indy Pro Am (team: Orange Team)
Jake Matthews-Pittsburgh Pro Am (team: SPK Law)
Josh Figini-Howard Pulley Summer Pro Am, St. Paul, MN
Dwight Tarwater-Rocky Top League, Knoxville, TN (team: Larry Smith Insurance)
Ned Tomic-Cleveland Am Pro (team: Allan's Wolfpack)

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