Lewis Jackson Trims List

[Da Coach]

A new article about BU recruit Lewis Jackson posted this afternoon, and due to come out in Monday's Decatur Herald & Review newspaper--
LJ nears a college choice

http://www.herald-review.com/blogs/hrpreps/?p=126

A couple interesting facts-- Bradley remains on Lewis Jackson's short list of 5 finalists (Bradley, Dayton, Indiana, Purdue, and Tennessee).
"Just about every school in the country courted him at one level or another ???‚¬??? Kansas called expressing late interest on Friday ???‚¬??? and more than a few weren???‚¬?„?t exactly honest.....
He???‚¬?„?ll take some guff from disgruntled Illini fans for his college choice"

One comment-- between Lewis Jackson, Matt Roth, Iman Shumpert, Kyle Kuric, and others, Jim Les and the Bradley staff deserve our respect and appreciation for the effort they have made to recruit these highly skilled, top-rated, and quality young men. I hope we land a couple of them, but even if we don't, it is impressive to see Bradley listed as finalists for these guys as well as others when they eliminated nearly all the other mid-majors a long time ago.

[meth]

One of the criticisms of Jim Les was that one of the other candidates 5 years ago would have done a better job recruiting the top players from Peoria.
But Jim Les has silenced those detractors, as he has not only shown he is able to recruit locally, but is in on the top recruits statewide and even nationally.
I would love to see some of the critics speak up now.

[Da Coach]

A new article on the Purdue Rivals site reports that Decatur Eisenhower point guard Lewis Jackson has a visit to the Purdue campus scheduled for Thursday. It's the only campus visit he has scheduled.
The article suggests that Jackson is very impressed with Purdue, and appears to be leaning toward committing to Purdue very soon. His AAU teammate Tyler Zeller is also said to favoring Purdue.
For the record, Lewis Jackson still claims that he is considering a list of 5 schools, Bradley, Indiana, Purdue, Tennessee, and Dayton.

Premium article--

http://purdue.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=699068

Rivals profile-

http://purdue.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?Sport=2&pr_key=50894