Koch Bar commits to Bradley

[tornado]

Koch Bar only started playing basketball about 3 years ago, then he came to the US about 18 months ago, and really only started getting good coaching and playing good competition about one year ago..
so I think if there's ever been a kid with a "huge upside" - this is him

http://www.fortwayne.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140506/SPORTS/320139126

btw- here's another couple stories from a couple years ago about the development of basketball in Sudan..it does mention all those Mooseheart kids
it mentions Bil Duany - one of Mark Adams' co-developers of A-Hope - and how they ended up in Indiana

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/sports/basketball/20sudan.html?_r=0

http://www.magbloom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/duany.pdf

a few other Indiana Elite 2016 kids are DI players
http://www.prephoopsindiana.com/pros...dida-ikongshul (just got WMU offer)

https://twitter.com/Stof34/status/615640085686583296

https://twitter.com/indianaelite/status/615965693549264896

https://twitter.com/JeffRabjohns/status/616760654385446912

https://twitter.com/indianaelite/status/615964804335820800

https://twitter.com/indianaelite/status/614479663365230592

https://twitter.com/indianaelite/status/614558965633019905

http://indianaelite.com/team/4048

http://indianaelite.com/team/4047

http://indianaelite.com/team/4057

not a bad program to stay on the good side of...
they will all be at Adidas Invitational (Indianapolis) next weekend (starting Wed.)

[Tommy]

I think the most important thing about this commit is getting his younger brother to commit in 4-5 years! 8th grader at 7'3"! Stick him in the middle and tell him to keep his arms up!

[Dub]

I am very excited about this commitment from Bar. And I was ready for a coach who would put some effort into recruiting and developing bigs. I guess it's the type of ball I like to watch... Heck it was largely our size and length that helped us compete in our last trip to the ncaa, so here's to a move back in that direction. Boo yah!

[Da Coach]

I think the most important thing about this commit is getting his younger brother to commit in 4-5 years! 8th grader at 7'3"! Stick him in the middle and tell him to keep his arms up!

On further review....regarding the photo on Koch Bar's Twitter page where he tweets-
My little bro Chol Marial is blowing up Twitter this days, good job bro ...
...to clear up some confusion, despite the use of the term "little bro", I'm fairly certain that they are not really brothers. However, they are teammates at West Oaks Academy and they both originate from the same region of South Sudan.

https://twitter.com/koch_bar/status/608022890290782210

We still might try to recruit the younger kid, though at 7'3", and still in the 8th grade, he'll certainly have other schools recruiting him.

[LongTimeFan]

Unless I am reading one of t's tweet links wrong, it looks like Bar might be playing in a Indiana tournament during July 8th through the 12th. Anybody in that area going? I wonder if there would be a video streaming of the games?

http://indianaelite.com/team/4048

[AZ BU Fan]

Coach Wardle has really raised 'the bar' for BU MBB with this recruit!

Awesome!

I continue to predict China will someday be the next source of MBB players for US universities!

[tornado]

Dave Reynolds column on Koch Bar

http://www.pjstar.com/article/20150706/SPORTS/150709559/12701/SPORTS

reiterates a lot of what the former article said...

"He liked everything about Bradley ??” the facilities, the coaches and the school,...He wanted to go somewhere where he could help build a program with a new staff.???