2018 & Beyond recruiting targets

[Dubl R 1]

I know our staff has been over in Iowa but I still do not know if we are recruiting Ivan Aurrecoechea but he had another monster game with 25 pts/15 rebs

Wow! I don't know if he can defend/rebound/ pass... but he's got tremendous low post footwork/moves and touch... and can finish above the rim. 6'8" 240 lbs who "goes to work" as soon as he catches it on the block... man we haven't had one of these types since....????

Just imagine how valuable it would be to add a reliable offensive post threat to compliment our outside shooters... somebody who can draw a double team to allow Childs to clean up the weak side boards. This is what we need.

[tornado]

Wow! I don't know if he can defend/rebound/ pass... but he's got tremendous low post footwork/moves and touch... and can finish above the rim. 6'8" 240 lbs who "goes to work" as soon as he catches it on the block... man we haven't had one of these types since....????

Just imagine how valuable it would be to add a reliable offensive post threat to compliment our outside shooters... somebody who can draw a double team to allow Childs to clean up the weak side boards. This is what we need.

guys like Bret Bisping (15 ppg & 10.5 rpg at Siena), Robert Covington (18 ppg/8 rpg at Tenn. State) and Chas McFarland (8.6 ppg & 6 rpg at Wake Forest) never got a look from any school in the midwest even tho they were right here in their back yard - but turned out to be pretty solid big men.

Ivan is definitely gonna be playing DI Ball next year - time will tell how he does...
Even Michael Ochereobia (9 ppg & 5.4 rpg his senior year) did a credible job elsewhere

[BUfan39]

guys like Bret Bisping (15 ppg & 10.5 rpg at Siena), Robert Covington (18 ppg/8 rpg at Tenn. State) and Chas McFarland (8.6 ppg & 6 rpg at Wake Forest) never got a look from any school in the midwest even tho they were right here in their back yard - but turned out to be pretty solid big men.

Ivan is definitely gonna be playing DI Ball next year - time will tell how he does...
Even Michael Ochereobia (9 ppg & 5.4 rpg his senior year) did a credible job elsewhere

And Robert Covington is playing in the NBA now for the Philadelphia 76ers.

[Da Coach]

A new name that Bradley is following-
2018 Ochai Agbaji- a senior at Oak Park High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He is an athletic 6'4" shooting guard who has had a recent growth spurt and emerged as one of the top players and scorers in the Kansas City area. He also plays with the MoKan Elite summer program.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/ochai-agbaji

https://247sports.com/player/ochai-agbaji-46042163

https://www.prephoops.com/2016/12/recruiting-report-ochai-agbaji-2018/

http://luchshee-video.ru/watch/MOST-Under-Rated-Player-in-the-Country:-Ochai-Agbaji-is-the-REAL-DEAL/2_YwNn50dDM

Videos-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knv9Pbijh0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SGxioKdDHk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90O23H84CEA

Bradley recruit Ochai Agbaji has really blown up in the last couple weeks. When I first posted about him, he only had a couple offers from lower mid-majors.
In the last couple weeks he has received offers from Oklahoma State, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Texas A&M, and today he received an offer from Kansas.

[LongTimeFan]

I guess it is time to move on to the next one. Outside of Cunningham, when was the last time we out recruited a 'big' school. In Cunningham, there were other things playing into his decision.

[Da Coach]

2018 Xavier Pinson from Simeon had narrowed to UC-Davis & Kent State-
then he verballed to KENT STATE - but now he's withdrawn his verbal and reopened...
https://twitter.com/xpinson3/status/919261745906057216

Sometimes it benefits a kid to wait.
2018 point guard Xavier Pinson was offered by a number of mid-majors, including several MVC schools, and he committed to Kent State early last fall. Then he apparently learned quickly that he might do better than Kent State, and withdrew his commitment. He has had a fairly decent senior season so far, though not spectacular. Simeon, is the top ranked school in the state of Illinois, and there are 4 or 5 other D1 recruits on his team who are all ranked as high or higher than Pinson. Most recruiting sites have him as a 2-star recruit, and Rivals recently upped him to 3-stars. Most state rankings have Pinson ranked somewhere between the 15th and 20th best player in the state of Illinois in the class of 2018.

But despite not being ranked as high as most Power-5 conference recruits, by waiting, a number of bigger schools got more and more desperate for a point guard, so he started getting better offers like Wisconsin, Georgetown, Dayton, and Missouri.
Today, he committed to Missouri.

[tornado]

Nobal Days is not exactly under-the-radar. He already has offers from Wisconsin, Marquette, Illinois, Northwestern, Nebraska, Kansas State, DePaul, and other major schools.
http://verbalcommits.com/players/nobal-days

Hmmm...there's gotta be a reason some midmajors are still recruiting the kid....grades?..

https://twitter.com/WisBBYearbook/status/960735212698300417

[egib52]

Sometimes it benefits a kid to wait.
2018 point guard Xavier Pinson was offered by a number of mid-majors, including several MVC schools, and he committed to Kent State early last fall. Then he apparently learned quickly that he might do better than Kent State, and withdrew his commitment. He has had a fairly decent senior season so far, though not spectacular. Simeon, is the top ranked school in the state of Illinois, and there are 4 or 5 other D1 recruits on his team who are all ranked as high or higher than Pinson. Most recruiting sites have him as a 2-star recruit, and Rivals recently upped him to 3-stars. Most state rankings have Pinson ranked somewhere between the 15th and 20th best player in the state of Illinois in the class of 2018.

But despite not being ranked as high as most Power-5 conference recruits, by waiting, a number of bigger schools got more and more desperate for a point guard, so he started getting better offers like Wisconsin, Georgetown, Dayton, and Missouri.
Today, he committed to Missouri.

Helps when the "high majors" start to get desperate. Not intended to disparage the kid, but there seemed to be consensus he was a mid major talent until late.

[LongTimeFan]

As has been mentioned, it is harder for a mid-major to get quality players in the April signing period. It is not impossible just harder.

[Da Coach]

Yes, especially when the bigger schools are desperate to fill open scholarships, and they gobble up a lot of kids better suited for mid-majors just to stock their bench with backups and practice players.
I'd bet that if someone did an analysis of these lower rated kids who suddenly get offers from major schools late in the recruiting cycle and see what happens to them in the subsequent years, you'd find that a far higher percentage of them don't get much playing time, get "recruited over", and transfer within 1 or 2 years to find a better school for them where they play more. I am not necessarily predicting that will happen to Pinson, but there is a good chance it could.

But their high school and AAU coaches always try to get these kids to the highest possible level, and not necessarily the best fit for the kid, because it is a feather in their caps, which they use to recruit other kids to their programs.

[LongTimeFan]

It is unfortunate that Bradley is facing this when trying to fill scholarship(s). I know if Boya reclassifies we have filled two scholarships but there is usually some extra movement between years.

[tornado]

Bradley recruit Ochai Agbaji has really blown up in the last couple weeks....

today Ochai Agbaji committed to Kansas...

[tornado]

David Sloan with a triple double 14 pts, 10 rebs, 16 assists
He leads all of juco ball with 9.5 assists per game - he also shoots 40% from 3-pt

https://twitter.com/JALCBASKETBALL/status/961639503961186306

[tornado]

Bradley offers Class of 2019 SG Isiaih Mosley from Columbia MO - he is ranked Top 150 by Rivals (#134)

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=27451

[tornado]

Trying to keep up with all the additions & subtractions....


2018 (with two seniors we should have 2 or more scholarships available)

Armon Brummett - COMMITTED on 1/23/2018 - here was the earliest mention of him - Armon Brummett
Aristide Boya - already COMMITTED - maybe will reclassify as 2018 (see under 2019)
Amir Allen - OFFERED - Putting up double-doubles - redshirted last year so should have 3 more years to play starting next fall
Damien Baugh - Memphis PG OFFERED
Tavin Lovan - Memphis SG OFFERED - LINK & LINK
Tre Harvey - plays with Donavan Moore at WBHS in Michigan
Emmanuel Bandoumel - Canadian SG, just OFFERED
Emmanuel Umoffia - OFFERED 12/13/17
Chase Adams - has new highlight video - LINK - still a good PG option for 2018, and Bradley has reportedly OFFERED - LINK
Brothers Tremell Murphy & Anthony Murphy - OFFERED - two really talented juco sophomores
Marlon Taylor - OFFERED - athletic juco wing player
Koreem Ozier - teammate of Aristide Boya at SCS - LINK
Kaleb Thornton - Bolingbrook point guard - had a great run in IHSA Finals
Gaven Pinkley - visited Bradley August 17, 2016 -has offers from InSU & Missouri State
Richardson Maitre - injured and may reclassify as 2019 (at Indian Hills juco)
Courvoisier McCauley - 6-4 Indianapolis SG and prolific scorer averaging 27.2 ppg as a junior and 31.1 ppg this season- but plans a year at prep school so will become a 2018 recruit - LINK
Kenny Strawbridge - Rockford Lutheran - More
DeAndre Heckard, Tray Jackson, Daishaun Woods, Robert Harvey, Angus Glover, Chandler Bevans,
Lacey Watson - 6-4 SG from from Rock Island but now transferred to Davenport IA, Bailey Dee - just visited Bradley on 8/9/2016
Naseer Turner - also visiting on August 27, 2106 - - our staff watched him recently
Hunter Strait, Hunter White, Keontae White, Tim Carter, LaTrayvion Jackson, Tyreese Davis, Jake James, Robert Montgomery, ShanQuan Hemphill, Hunter Davis,
DeAnthony McCallum, Ja'Shon Henry, Dexter Dennis, Mohamed Thiam, Xavier Rhodes,
Christian Guess, Michael Wykoff, Shaun Williams


2019 (projected to have 5 seniors leaving in 2019 so at least five additional scholarships available - four if the one used for Boya is now taken)

Aristide Boya - COMMITTED
Josh Wallace - OFFERED 11/28/2017
Antavion Callum - OFFERED on 11/24/2018 *
Shereef Mitchell - just OFFERED on 11/8/2018, also just reclassified and got UC-Davis offer
Donavan Moore - OFFERED 7/23 - LINK - but moving to Michigan
Xzavier Jones - OFFERED 7/23 and VISITING on 8/07/17!
Michael Moreno - just visited and got OFFERED August 27, 2016
Sydney Curry - Bradley has OFFERED - LINK LINK
Tyem Freeman - OFFERED
Alex Hemenway - Indy area SG - OFFERED 1/5/18 - LINK
Isiaih Mosley - OFFERED on 2/09/2018
Myles Baker, Mario McKinney - Vashon PG, Luther Taylor, Cyrus Alexander, Karl Wright, Michael Peake, Terrence Hargrove, Lamel Robinson, Christian Braun, Dajuan Harris, Jesse Bingham, Jakobie Robinson, Brandon Mahan, Caleb Stone-Carrawell, Malcolm Dandridge, Jeremiah Hernandez, Marquise Kennedy, Kejuan Clements, Akol Arop, Caleb Grill, Malcolm Whitlow,
David Sloan - Bradley was recruiting him out of prep school in FL, but now he's at John A. Logan juco
Chol Marial - friend of Koch Bar, rated #1 in Class of 2019
**** Class of 2019 Chol Marial recently played at the Adidas Nation and was playing for an African team vs. the TOP US 2017 players-
so he was facing the very best kids two years older...and still had a great game - 8-9 from the floor, 18 pts, 9 rebs, 3 blk - LINK


2020 (will lose 4 more seniors so will have four more open scholarships for 2020)
Desmond Polk - OFFERED on 11/10/2017
Mabor Majak - Hamilton Southeast near Indianapolis - OFFERED - LINK
Rashad McDaniels - recently visited Bradley - LINK
Anthony Leal
Adam Miller - Manual guard, Bradley has already OFFERED - LINK
Caleb Love, Mike Saunders, Jr., Demarius Splunge

2021 (lots depends on if we have built up with jucos or 4-year guys but Stipanovich & Childs will be seniors and thus 2 more will open up in 2021)
Isaiah Donnell - LINK


U of I still following Bradley around and offering all the kids we are offering

https://twitter.com/tennprepacademy/status/962510369632735232