2017 Valley recruits

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updated list of who the new players are in the MVC for 2017-18



2017
Bradley - Ryan Stipanovich - LINK, Elijah Childs, Luqman Lundy (0 open scholarships)
Drake - Teyvion Kirk - now reopened, Tai Bibbs - now reopened (3 scholarships currently open as Bibbs, Kirk, and Billy Wampler are all gone)
Evansville - Evan Kuhlman (signed), Noah Frederking (signed) (3, maybe 4 scholarships currently open) (Silas Adheke removed as he classified as a 2016)
Illinois State - William Tinsley, Elijah Clarance (signed), Christian Romine & Milik Yarbrough, transfers eligible in 2017 (1 scholarship currently open with departure of Deontae Hawkins)
Indiana State - Devin Thomas (signed), Tyreke Key (signed), Elafayette Stone (now reneged and signs with juco - see below) (signed), Daniel Huenermann (signed) (2 scholarships currently open as Donovan Franklin is gone & Elafayette Stone gone)
Loyola - Cameron Krutwig (signed), Christian Negron (signed) (1 scholarship currently open, Maurice Kirby gone)
Missouri State - Reggie Scurry (signed), Darian Scott (signed), Mustafa Lawrence, (signed) (0 scholarships currently open)
UNI - Austin Phyfe (signed), Adam McDermott - walk-on transfer from North Dakota sitting out 2016-17 (1 scholarships left for 2017)
SIU - Demarius Jacobs - had signed LOI but now reneged and going to prep school, Eric McGill - presumably will sign this spring, Jeremy Roscoe - (will not sign a LOI since he signed one in 2016), Marcus Bartley - transfer eligible in 2017 (1 or 2 scholarships currently open - depends if Jeremy Roscoe qualifies)
Wichita State - Samajae Haynes-Jones - signed, Asbjorn Midtgaard (signed) (zero scholarships currently open)

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Only a week from the beginning of the spring signing period (April 12 - May 17, 2017) ...and there are ONLY TWO players that are on the list as expected spring signees... (Lundy, McGill)

Last year on this exact date there were a dozen spring commits that would sign including Hodgson & Brown, Jr. for Bradley - so activity this spring has been very quiet... but more would be expected in the next weeks

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2017...
Elijah Clarance (signed)...

ISU signee Elijah Clarance might be pretty good - and he's entitled to have the highest goals - go for it.....
but he's kinda predicting he will be the best MVC player since Hersey Hawkins.
I sure hope we have someone to defend him or he's gonna dominate the Valley.


FIRST- he predicted he might be a one-and-done, or possibly take as much as 2 or 3 seasons to get to the NBA...
"Their two senior guards go out now, I will come in and get the chance to play right away.
I'm going to get a really big role.
.. I do not know how long it will take - but from one to three years I think I'm going to the NBA, "says Clarance."

but why stop there - .......
"Elijah Clarance: "I can be an NBA all-star"

...I think I can be an NBA all-star."


His high school had enrollment of around 220 as did all the opponents they played, and he just played in a Maryland high school All Star game.
His team got smoked by 30 points....but he did score 22

[PurpleAceFan]

ISU signee Elijah Clarance might be pretty good - and he's entitled to have the highest goals - go for it.....
but he's kinda predicting he will be the best MVC player since Hersey Hawkins.
I sure hope we have someone to defend him or he's gonna dominate the Valley.


FIRST- he predicted he might be a one-and-done, or possibly take as much as 2 or 3 seasons to get to the NBA...
"Their two senior guards go out now, I will come in and get the chance to play right away.
I'm going to get a really big role.
.. I do not know how long it will take - but from one to three years I think I'm going to the NBA, "says Clarance."

but why stop there - .......
"Elijah Clarance: "I can be an NBA all-star"

...I think I can be an NBA all-star."


His high school had enrollment of around 220 as did all the opponents they played, and he just played in a Maryland high school All Star game.
His team got smoked by 30 points....but he did score 22

Love the confidence. I'll pass on the comment around the level of competition he played in high school as it's very uneducated. I'll just center on the fact that he was the player of the year and love his backstory.

http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/sports/all-county-boys-basketball-goretti-s-clarance-blossoms-in-big/article_4b4b3b50-11ca-11e7-aa9d-b776f3b23636.html

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... the level of competition he played in high school as it's very uneducated. ..

if you read BradleyFans regularly you'd be better educated...

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=825124365&postcount=42

His high school has an enrollment of 210

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updated to reflect recent changes



2017
Bradley - Ryan Stipanovich - LINK, Elijah Childs, Luqman Lundy (0 open scholarships)
Drake - Teyvion Kirk - now reopened, Tai Bibbs - now reopened (3 scholarships currently open as Bibbs, Kirk, and Billy Wampler are all gone)
Evansville - Evan Kuhlman (signed), Noah Frederking (signed) (3, maybe 4 scholarships currently open) (Silas Adheke removed as he classified as a 2016)
Illinois State - William Tinsley, Elijah Clarance (signed), Christian Romine & Milik Yarbrough, transfers eligible in 2017 (1 scholarship currently open with departure of Deontae Hawkins)
Indiana State - Devin Thomas (signed), Tyreke Key (signed), Elafayette Stone (now reneged and signs with juco - see below) (signed), Daniel Huenermann (signed) (2 scholarships currently open as Donovan Franklin is gone & Elafayette Stone gone)
Loyola - Cameron Krutwig (signed), Christian Negron (signed) (1 scholarship currently open, Maurice Kirby gone)
Missouri State - Reggie Scurry (signed), Darian Scott (signed), Mustafa Lawrence, (signed) (0 scholarships currently open)
UNI - Austin Phyfe (signed), Adam McDermott - walk-on transfer from North Dakota sitting out 2016-17 (1 scholarships left for 2017)
SIU - Demarius Jacobs - had signed LOI but now reneged and going to prep school, Eric McGill - presumably will sign this spring, Jeremy Roscoe - (will not sign a LOI since he signed one in 2016), Marcus Bartley - transfer eligible in 2017 (1 or 2 scholarships currently open - depends if Jeremy Roscoe qualifies)
Wichita State - all deleted - cuz nobody really gives a crap now...

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ISU signee Elijah Clarance might be pretty good - and he's entitled to have the highest goals - go for it.....
but he's kinda predicting he will be the best MVC player since Hersey Hawkins.
I sure hope we have someone to defend him or he's gonna dominate the Valley.


FIRST- he predicted he might be a one-and-done, or possibly take as much as 2 or 3 seasons to get to the NBA...
"Their two senior guards go out now, I will come in and get the chance to play right away.
I'm going to get a really big role.
.. I do not know how long it will take - but from one to three years I think I'm going to the NBA, "says Clarance."

but why stop there - .......
"Elijah Clarance: "I can be an NBA all-star"

...I think I can be an NBA all-star."


His high school had enrollment of around 220 as did all the opponents they played, and he just played in a Maryland high school All Star game.
His team got smoked by 30 points....but he did score 22

ran across this old post about another former ISU player who was said to be headed soon to the NBA even before he got to ISU...but I don't think he ever made it...

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=280595&postcount=27

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Nobody in the MVC has any 2018 recruits and several schools are still trying to fill their 2017 scholarships...

UNI got their 2017 verbal two full years in advance - in 2015 - LINK

Most of the other 2017 verbals came starting in late summer of 2016 - so I expect we could see a 2018 verbal this summer, we'll have to wait & see.
Bradley will have at least TWO scholarships to fill with Donte Thomas and Jojo McGlaston graduating

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ISU does land Zach Copeland

2017
Bradley - Ryan Stipanovich - LINK, Elijah Childs, Luqman Lundy (0 open scholarships)
Drake - Teyvion Kirk - now reopened, Tai Bibbs - now reopened (3 scholarships currently open as Bibbs, Kirk, and Billy Wampler are all gone)
Evansville - Evan Kuhlman (signed), Noah Frederking (signed) (3, maybe 4 scholarships currently open) (Silas Adheke removed as he classified as a 2016)
Illinois State - William Tinsley, Elijah Clarance (signed), Zach Copeland, Christian Romine & Milik Yarbrough, transfers eligible in 2017 (zero scholarship currently open)
Indiana State - Devin Thomas (signed), Tyreke Key (signed), Elafayette Stone (now reneged and signs with juco - see below) (signed), Daniel Huenermann (signed) (2 scholarships currently open as Donovan Franklin is gone & Elafayette Stone gone)
Loyola - Cameron Krutwig (signed), Christian Negron (signed) (1 scholarship currently open, Maurice Kirby gone)
Missouri State - Reggie Scurry (signed), Darian Scott (signed), Mustafa Lawrence, (signed) (0 scholarships currently open)
UNI - Austin Phyfe (signed), Adam McDermott - walk-on transfer from North Dakota sitting out 2016-17 (1 scholarships left for 2017)
SIU - Demarius Jacobs - had signed LOI but now reneged and going to prep school, Eric McGill - presumably will sign this spring, Jeremy Roscoe - (will not sign a LOI since he signed one in 2016), Marcus Bartley - transfer eligible in 2017 (1 or 2 scholarships currently open - depends if Jeremy Roscoe qualifies)
Wichita State - deleted
...waiting to hear if we should add Valpo or Belmont..

[PurpleAceFan]

ISU does land Zach Copeland

2017
Bradley - Ryan Stipanovich - LINK, Elijah Childs, Luqman Lundy (0 open scholarships)
Drake - Teyvion Kirk - now reopened, Tai Bibbs - now reopened (3 scholarships currently open as Bibbs, Kirk, and Billy Wampler are all gone)
Evansville - Evan Kuhlman (signed), Noah Frederking (signed) (3, maybe 4 scholarships currently open) (Silas Adheke removed as he classified as a 2016)
Illinois State - William Tinsley, Elijah Clarance (signed), Zach Copeland, Christian Romine & Milik Yarbrough, transfers eligible in 2017 (zero scholarship currently open)
Indiana State - Devin Thomas (signed), Tyreke Key (signed), Elafayette Stone (now reneged and signs with juco - see below) (signed), Daniel Huenermann (signed) (2 scholarships currently open as Donovan Franklin is gone & Elafayette Stone gone)
Loyola - Cameron Krutwig (signed), Christian Negron (signed) (1 scholarship currently open, Maurice Kirby gone)
Missouri State - Reggie Scurry (signed), Darian Scott (signed), Mustafa Lawrence, (signed) (0 scholarships currently open)
UNI - Austin Phyfe (signed), Adam McDermott - walk-on transfer from North Dakota sitting out 2016-17 (1 scholarships left for 2017)
SIU - Demarius Jacobs - had signed LOI but now reneged and going to prep school, Eric McGill - presumably will sign this spring, Jeremy Roscoe - (will not sign a LOI since he signed one in 2016), Marcus Bartley - transfer eligible in 2017 (1 or 2 scholarships currently open - depends if Jeremy Roscoe qualifies)
Wichita State - deleted
...waiting to hear if we should add Valpo or Belmont..

Nice get by the Redbirds, beating out a Pac 12 (Colorado) and a Big Ten (Nebraska) to get him. Offense shaping up pretty nicely for Redbirds next year. Let's see if they can guard people at the same level though. Hopefully my Aces will have some people to test that, but not looking good right now.

[mvcfan]

Birds are going to be very athletic and deep next year. In my opinion they could be better then last year.

[Da Coach]

Birds are going to be very athletic and deep next year. In my opinion they could be better then last year.

I think they can be the top team next year with WSU gone, but I don't see them being as good as last year's 28-win team. They just lost their 2 top scorers, their top rebounder, their top two 3-point shooters, their top 2 leaders in steals, the MVC Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, and the MVC leading assist and steals leader.
Who'll play point guard? Evans averaged just barely over 1 assist per game and had more turnovers than assists.

[Da Coach]

Missouri State gets a commitment from a junior college forward- Abdul-Hakim Fofana. He is originally from the west African country of Burkina Faso-

http://verbalcommits.com/players/abdul-hakim-fofana

He averaged 15.4 ppg and 11.8 rpg at Dakota College at Bottineau, a Division II junior college-

http://www.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2016-17/div2/players/abdulhakimfofanatbwy

[Da Coach]

Missouri State gets a commitment from a junior college forward- Abdul-Hakim Fofana. He is originally from the west African country of Burkina Faso-

http://verbalcommits.com/players/abdul-hakim-fofana

He averaged 15.4 ppg and 11.8 rpg at Dakota College at Bottineau, a Division II junior college-
http://www.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/201...akimfofanatbwy

He has an interesting history-

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-TGDIoEExbEJ:www.model.com.tw/blog/abdul-hakim-fofana+&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

This is his first year of playing basketball at the juco level, so he might have 3 years of eligibility left if qualifies for D1.

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that article seems to indicate that he enrolled in school there in Atlanta but then when it got too expensive he went and enrolled in Houston...

So- like Taylor Brown - his clock would have started at that point by enrolling for college level courses, even if he did NOT play basketball, then he spent a full year in North Dakota at juco.
So he may have 3 years of eligibility left but he likely has no redshirt year remaining.

But he does appear to be an athletic kid tho obviously inexperienced with only a couple years of well organized ball - so gotta figure he might be a redshirt candidate but maybe doesn't have that redshirt year available to him. I think this signals exactly how slim the pickings are at this point and although any kid might surprise and be a game changer - probably what we'll see are fairly obscure commits. Even the ISU commit seems odd - as in why would a 6-4 shooting guard - one of the top players in juco ball, who some have labelled the best juco 3-point shooter in the nation have so few offers at this late stage? And with two dozen DI programs in his own state and many more in nearby states - that he doesn't appear to have a single DI offer from any school within 1,000 miles.


also, this means someone will have to be leaving because they didn't have any open scholarships before landing this guy

ONE MORE COMMIT - Evansville lands Marty Hill
He is from Northeast Community College in Nebraska and is a teammate of former BU Recruit Vance Johnson
**the newspaper over in Evansville says
"Marty Hill....averaged 14.8 points, shooting 42.7 percent from behind the 3-point line. He also averaged 4.0 rebounds and 1.7 assists."
..but they didn't do their homework very well, as those are his stats from two seasons ago - not his current stats.



Updated

2017
Bradley - Ryan Stipanovich - LINK, Elijah Childs, Luqman Lundy (0 open scholarships)
Drake - Teyvion Kirk - now reopened, Tai Bibbs - now reopened (3 scholarships currently open as Bibbs, Kirk, and Billy Wampler are all gone)
Evansville - Evan Kuhlman (signed), Noah Frederking (signed), Marty Hill (2, maybe 3 scholarships currently open) (Silas Adheke removed as he classified as a 2016)
Illinois State - William Tinsley, Elijah Clarance (signed), Zach Copeland, Christian Romine & Milik Yarbrough, transfers eligible in 2017 (zero scholarship currently open)
Indiana State - Devin Thomas (signed), Tyreke Key (signed), Elafayette Stone (now reneged and signs with juco - see below) (signed), Daniel Huenermann (signed) (2 scholarships currently open as Donovan Franklin is gone & Elafayette Stone gone)
Loyola - Cameron Krutwig (signed), Christian Negron (signed) (1 scholarship currently open, Maurice Kirby gone)
Missouri State - Reggie Scurry (signed), Darian Scott (signed), Mustafa Lawrence, (signed), Abdul-Hakim Fofana (1 scholarships currently open but Chris Kendrix leaving and Austin Ruder is leaving)
UNI - Austin Phyfe (signed), Adam McDermott - walk-on transfer from North Dakota sitting out 2016-17 (1 scholarships left for 2017)
SIU - Demarius Jacobs - had signed LOI but now reneged and going to prep school, Eric McGill - presumably will sign this spring, Jeremy Roscoe - (will not sign a LOI since he signed one in 2016), Marcus Bartley - transfer eligible in 2017 (1 or 2 scholarships currently open - depends if Jeremy Roscoe qualifies)
Wichita State - deleted
...waiting to hear if we should add Valpo or Belmont..