2019 Valley Recruits

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We got this one way back in July --when he committed to UNI to play both football and basketball- https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sp...722#post464722

then signed in December- https://unipanthers.com/news/2019/2/...-signs-30.aspx



btw- still no word as to why Missouri State still hasn't gotten their signed Letter of Intent from Isiaih Mosley as they had expected

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sports-forums/basketball-fan-talk/28126-2019-valley-recruits?p=485787#post485787

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Valparaiso lands a 2019 walk-on Luke Morrill
https://twitter.com/MontiniBBall/sta...78600205344771

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Interesting discussion on the Drake board about a transfer guy they have named Roman Penn...
he's only played one season of college ball but is already listed as a junior and may have only two years remaining.
He may have lost two seasons to redshirting unless he can get a special waiver.......

-Penn graduated high school in 2016 - http://inbasketballsource.com/recrui...ate-roman-penn
-He spent the first half of 2016-17 at prep school - https://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...04-column.html
-At semester break 2016-17, he left prep school & enrolled at Siena but redshirted 2016-17, and did not play
-then 2017-18 he played 23 games at Siena- they went 8-24 (he averaged 9.7 ppg)
-at the end of 2017-18 he then left Siena and transferred to Drake
-because of the transfer he had to sit out & redshirted 2018-19 and should be eligible in 2019-2020
-so even tho he's only played one season, he might have just 2 seasons left to play at Drake but will probably ask for a waiver

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Drake gets a commitment from 6’5 Okay Djamgouz from Canada. He was previously a class of 2020 recruit, but today he announced he will reclassify to the class of 2019, and that he is committing to Drake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyQlwF6vdzk

http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/okay-djamgouz

http://northpolehoops.com/players/okay-djamgouz/

Other videos-
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...=okay+djamgouz

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That's the first new name since the signing period started but several schools still have scholarships to fill
He has a little brother Burak Djamgouz in Class of 2024 (current 8th grader) but the competition level at that age in Canada is suspect..
..also Missouri State's Isiaih Mosley has signed- https://twitter.com/WyattWheeler_NL/...94804412211201

..and what's with ISU?? They still have a bunch of open scholarships and have only signed one 2019 recruit (DJ Horne).

2019

Bradley - Stephan Gabriel, Antonio Thomas, Ville Tahvanainen, possibly JaMir Price, Rienk Mast,Danya Kingsby- transfer, will not sign LOI (now 2 open scholarship now that Hodgson, Pittman, and Brummett are transferring)
Drake - Roman Penn - transfer eligible in 2019, Issa Samake, Joseph Yesufu, Nate Ferguson, Luke Vaske- walk-on, redshirting this year, Jonah Jackson, Brady Ernst, Okay Djamgouz (zero scholarships, Matt Gray transferring)
Evansville - Artur Labinowcz - transfer, eligible in 2019, Sam Cunliffe - transfer eligible in 2019, DeAndre Williams- freshman redshirting 2018-19, Marcus Henderson, Peace Ilegomah - eligible mid-year 2019-20, Thomasi Gilgeous-Alexander (1 open scholarship)
ISU - DJ Horne, Dedric Boyd, Jaycee Hillsman, Keith Fisher - all three ineligible until fall of 2019, also Abdou Ndiaye will be ineligible until 2019 , Malcolm Miller - walk-on (still have 3 or maybe 4 scholarships)
Indiana State - Cobie Barnes, Jared Hankins, Tre Williams, Cameron Bacote (transfer will be eligible in 2019), Christopher Agbo, Jake LaRavia (zero scholarships open - Hughes & Huenermann leaving)
Loyola - Tate Hall (transfer, eligible in 2019-2020), Paxson Wojcik, Tom Welch, Marquise Kennedy, Keith Clemons, Jalon Pipkins (zero open scholarships, Bujdoso transferred)
Missouri State - Tyem Freeman, Jamonta Black, Dajuan Harris, Gaige Prim, Tyrik Dixon - transfer, eligible 2019, Isaiah Mosley, Spencer Brown- walk-on, Lamont West-transfer, Anthony Masinton-Bonner, transfer (appear to be oversigned by 1 or 2 now that both Wojciks leaving)
UNI - James Betz, Noah Carter, Cole Henry, Logan Wolf (walk-on for basketball & scholarship for football), Evan Gauger, Derek Krogman- walk-on, Antwan Kimmons
(zero open scholarships- now that Croft is gone)
SIU - Avery Taggart (will also walk on for football), Lance Jones, Chris Payton, Trent Brown, Barret Benson (1 or 2 open scholarships - but rumor that Payton may not be eligible)
Valparaiso - Eron Gordon and Nick Robinson - both transfers eligible in 2019, Donovan Clay, Sigurd Lorange, Emil Freese-Vilien, Ben Krikke, Luke Morrill - walk on, Zion Morgan(should have one open scholarship - Evelyn, Freeman, Golder, Sorolla & Smits transferring)

2020

Bradley - JaMir Price- if he does a year at Prep School (currently 3 open scholarships - we lose Brown, Kennell, Bar)
UNI - Tytan Anderson (4 open scholarships)

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Valparaiso gets a commitment from Zion Morgan, a 6'5" shooting guard who is originally from Chicago Kenwood Academy, class of 2016. He spent the 2016-17 season at UNLV but played little and averaged just 2.8 ppg. He transferred to Wabash Valley Community College in Mount Carmel, Illinois. He did not play in 2017-18, and averaged 7.8 ppg this past season (2018-19) at Wabash Valley and shot 31.7% from three.
He had other offers from Albany and Norfolk State.

http://www.wvcwarriorathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2018-19/players/zionmorgangxpd

He will be eligible right away as a juco transfer.

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Evansville gets commitment from Thomasi Gilgeous-Alexander - brother of current LA Clippers' Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
https://www.courierpress.com/story/s...ll/3561991002/


by our count he is at least the 63rd new player for next year in the MVC - and still a few teams with multiple scholarships to fill.....
gotta be a record for turnover in a single year in the MVC!

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Illinois State lands Malcolm Miller from Shelbyville as a preferred walk-on
6-4 shooting guard

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Bryan Mullins gets his first commitment at Southern Illinois- 2019 Trent Brown- 6'1" point guard from Pinnacle High School in Phoenix, Arizona. Recruiting sites describe him somewhat similarly to Mullins when he played for SIU.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/trent-brown

https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2019/trent-brown-98838

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ISU head coach Dan Muller has done a pretty good job recruiting talented kids to ISU in the past, but this year Muller and ISU fans might be getting a bit nervous by now.
My source at ISU reports that Muller keeps missing out on his top recruiting targets, and is still desperately trying to land 3 or 4 more players to fill his 3 open scholarships. They lost most of the team's talent from last year, and have only signed one recruit for 2019 so far (6'2" point guard D.J. Horne).

5 of the top 6 players from last season's team that had arguably less depth than anyone in the MVC are gone. They have the least amount of returning talent for 2019-20 than any MVC team except maybe SIU which is in a total rebuilding mode under new coach Bryan Mullins. Their significant returning players next season include 9 ppg/31.7% three point shooting guard Zach Copeland and 3.5 ppg walkon Matt Chastain. They do have four players who sat out last season (3 transfers and an academic redshirt) who are unproven.
Muller has been trying to add a couple junior college kids, but that effort suffered another blow today....
A couple days ago things were looking pretty good for ISU when a pretty good juco shooting guard named Derrick Cook narrowed his list of finalists to Illinois State, Eastern Michigan, and Jacksonville State-.

https://twitter.com/dc2skt/status/1120041017741402114

But today, he signed with Jacksonville State over the Redbirds.
https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/st...39318379556864

Muller is still focusing on juco kids and available transfers.

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Just an observation, but....
losing out to Jacksonville State - and it's rumored the kids' 2nd choice was EMU - so ISU came in 3rd..?
this is the point Muller has found himself in each of the prior years with little talent left out there yet desperately having to sign someone - so he takes chances on marginal kids like Jerron Martin 2 years ago and he didn't even make it thru the following season, or Abdou NDiaye last year who like Copeland wasn't even eligible..or kids who have serious arrest records (Akoon-Purcell, Brewer)....or for other reasons simply never can play (Romine)...or who for other reasons take off and leave (Lynch, Banyard, Griffin, Clarance)
or he goes for walk-on caliber kids who are great kids and they give you all they have but after a couple years, he runs them out as well, like Gassman.

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ISU loses out on another of their top recruiting targets who chooses Western Michigan

https://twitter.com/AlbEliteTigers/status/1122185824622325760

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Barret Benson will be a grad transfer so he should be eligible this fall at SIU
https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sp...100#post486100


2019

Bradley - Stephan Gabriel, Antonio Thomas, Ville Tahvanainen, possibly JaMir Price, Rienk Mast,Danya Kingsby- transfer, will not sign LOI, Terry Nolan, Jr. (now 1 open scholarship)
Drake - Roman Penn - transfer eligible in 2019, Issa Samake, Joseph Yesufu, Nate Ferguson, Luke Vaske- walk-on, redshirting this year, Jonah Jackson, Brady Ernst, Okay Djamgouz (zero scholarships, Matt Gray transferring)
Evansville - Artur Labinowcz - transfer, eligible in 2019, Sam Cunliffe - transfer eligible in 2019, DeAndre Williams- freshman redshirting 2018-19, Marcus Henderson, Peace Ilegomah - eligible mid-year 2019-20, Thomasi Gilgeous-Alexander (1 open scholarship)
ISU - DJ Horne, Dedric Boyd, Jaycee Hillsman, Keith Fisher - all three ineligible until fall of 2019, also Abdou Ndiaye will be ineligible until 2019 , Malcolm Miller - walk-on (still have 3 or maybe 4 scholarships)
Indiana State - Cobie Barnes, Jared Hankins, Tre Williams, Cameron Bacote (transfer will be eligible in 2019), Christopher Agbo, Jake LaRavia (zero scholarships open - Hughes & Huenermann leaving)
Loyola - Tate Hall (transfer, eligible in 2019-2020), Paxson Wojcik, Tom Welch, Marquise Kennedy, Keith Clemons, Jalon Pipkins (zero open scholarships, Bujdoso transferred)
Missouri State - Tyem Freeman, Jamonta Black, Dajuan Harris, Gaige Prim, Tyrik Dixon - transfer, eligible 2019, Isaiah Mosley, Spencer Brown- walk-on, Lamont West-transfer, Anthony Masinton-Bonner, transfer (appear to be oversigned by 1 or 2 now that both Wojciks leaving)
UNI - James Betz, Noah Carter, Cole Henry, Logan Wolf (walk-on for basketball & scholarship for football), Evan Gauger, Derek Krogman- walk-on, Antwan Kimmons
(zero open scholarships- now that Croft is gone)
SIU - Avery Taggart (will also walk on for football), Lance Jones, Chris Payton, Trent Brown, Barret Benson(1 or 2 open scholarships - but rumor that Payton may not be eligible)
Valparaiso - Eron Gordon and Nick Robinson - both transfers eligible in 2019, Donovan Clay, Sigurd Lorange, Emil Freese-Vilien, Ben Krikke, Luke Morrill - walk on, Zion Morgan(should have one open scholarship - Evelyn, Freeman, Golder, Sorolla & Smits transferring)

2020

Bradley - JaMir Price- if he does a year at Prep School (currently 3 open scholarships - we lose Brown, Kennell, Bar)
UNI - Tytan Anderson (4 open scholarships)

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ISU loses out on another of their top recruiting targets who chooses Western Michigan
https://twitter.com/AlbEliteTigers/s...85824622325760

and yet another of ISU's spring targets chooses elsewhere - this time they get beat out by Eastern Illinois University...
https://twitter.com/JucoRecruiting/s...82354964287488

http://verbalcommits.com/players/deang-deang

Dan Muller officially transitioning into desperation mode and looking everywhere for whoever is still available.

Then the latest recruit they just offered also already has a UC-Davis & a SIUE offer, so scratch him off, too...

https://twitter.com/KoltonMitchell/status/1122671684698484736

http://verbalcommits.com/players/kolton-mitchell

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Bradley will land George Washington transfer Terry Nolan Jr.