Valley Recruits

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Valparaiso adds a walk-on

https://www.valpoathletics.com/mbasketball/news/2019-20/19872/tyler-fricke-joins-valpo-mens-basketball-as-walk-on/

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SIU gets a 2021 commitment today from Scottie Ebube, a 6'9" center from Mudelein HS, Mundelein, IL.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/scottie-ebube

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/12...ool-basketball

He plays on the same team as 2021 Drake commit Connor Enright


Updated 2020 & 2021 MVC commitments list-
Class of 2020 recruits-https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sp...081#post493081
Bradley- Darius Hannah, Connor Linke, Jayson Kent, Sean East II
Drake- Jordan Kwiecinski, Bryceson Burns, Darnell Brodie, ShanQuan Hemphill
Evansville- Trey Hall, Jax Levitch, Emmette Page, Iyen Enaruna, Alex Matthews, Tyler Fricke (walk-on)
Illinois State- Alston Andrews, Emon Washington, Josiah Strong, Howard Fleming, Alex Kotov, Dusan Mahorcic, Jayden Johnson (walkon), Sy Chatman
Indiana State- Julian Larry, Nick Hittle, Kailex Stephens, Tobias "T.J. Howard, Sam Mervis, Ndongo Ndaw, Randy Miller, Jr.
Loyola- Baylor Hebb, Jacob Hutson, Damezi Anderson, Jr.
Missouri State- Sky Wicks, Demarcus Sharp, Nic Tata, Dawson Carper, Raphe Ayres, Keaton Hervey, Melvyn Ebonkoli
UNI- Tytan Anderson, Nathan Heise, Bowen Born, Michael Duax, Drew Daniels (walkon), Goanar Mar
SIU- Eric Butler, Dalton Banks, Zachary Gibson (walk-on), J.D. Muila, Steven Verplancken, Chris Cross (walk-on), Jakolby Long, Kyler Filewich
Valparaiso- Connor Barrett, Jacob Ognacevic, Sheldon Edwards, Goodnews Kpegeol

2021 recruits-
Drake- Connor Enright
Indiana State- Lincoln Hale
Missouri State- Issac Haney
UNI- Michael Duax
SIU- Scottie Ebube

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SIU adds one more to their roster. Southern Utah guard Jakolby Long is transferring to SIU as a grad-transfer and will be eligible next season.
https://twitter.com/HoopScoopMedia/s...71420240269312

Jakolby Long is a 6'4" combo guard who graduated from from Mustang, Oklahoma HS in 2016 where he was the Oklahoma Class 6A Player of the Year, averaging 24.6 ppg, 8.0 rpg and 5.3 apg as a senior. He was recruited out of high school by ISU coach Dan Muller, but he received a number of high major offers and committed to Iowa State. He played 2 seasons there.
His freshman season at Iowa State (2016-17) he only played in 9 games and averaged 1.2 ppg and 1.1 rpg.
His sophomore season (2017-18 ), he played in 22 games, and averaged 1.9 ppg and 1.3 rpg.
Then he left Iowa State after the 2017-18 season and transferred to Southern Utah. He sat out 2018-19 there, then played in 27 games this past season (2019-20), starting 17 of them. He finished the season as the 8th leading scorer on the Southern Utah team, averaging 6.0 ppg, 2.9 rpg, and 1.5 apg. He shot just 18.8% from three. He has been in the transfer portal for 3 months and it appears SIU was his only offer.

https://suutbirds.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jakolby-long/6955

https://cyclones.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jakolby-long/9378

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/stats/_/id/4066295/jakolby-long

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Updated 2020 & 2021 MVC commitments list-
Class of 2020 recruits-
Bradley- Darius Hannah, Connor Linke, Jayson Kent, Sean East II
Drake- Jordan Kwiecinski, Bryceson Burns, Darnell Brodie, ShanQuan Hemphill
Evansville- Trey Hall, Jax Levitch, Emmette Page, Iyen Enaruna, Alex Matthews, Tyler Fricke (walk-on)
Illinois State- Alston Andrews, Emon Washington, Josiah Strong, Howard Fleming, Alex Kotov, Dusan Mahorcic, Jayden Johnson (walkon), Sy Chatman
Indiana State- Julian Larry, Nick Hittle, Kailex Stephens, Tobias "T.J. Howard, Sam Mervis, Ndongo Ndaw, Randy Miller, Jr.
Loyola- Baylor Hebb, Jacob Hutson, Damezi Anderson, Jr.
Missouri State- Sky Wicks, Demarcus Sharp, Nic Tata, Dawson Carper, Raphe Ayres, Keaton Hervey, Melvyn Ebonkoli
UNI- Tytan Anderson, Nathan Heise, Bowen Born, Michael Duax, Drew Daniels (walkon), Goanar Mar
SIU- Eric Butler, Dalton Banks, Zachary Gibson (walk-on), J.D. Muila, Steven Verplancken, Chris Cross (walk-on), Jakolby Long
Valparaiso- Connor Barrett, Jacob Ognacevic, Sheldon Edwards, Goodnews Kpegeol

2021 recruits-
Bradley- Connor Hickman
Drake- Connor Enright
Indiana State- Lincoln Hale, Drew Calderon
Missouri State- Issac Haney
UNI- Michael Duax
SIU- Scottie Ebube, Troy D'Amico, Foster Wonders

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A couple 2021 recruits committed to MVC teams in the last few days

2021 Troy D'Amico, a 6'5" SF/SG from Notre Dame College Prep (formerly Niles Notre Dame) just verbally committed to SIU-

http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/troy-d-amico

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/7/...all-notre-dame

2021 Drew Calderon, a 6'4" shooting guard from The Woodlands College Park High School in The Woodlands, Texas, verbally committed to Indiana State-

http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/drew-calderon

https://www.tribstar.com/sports/syca...436453f75.html

Notre Dame Prep is the high school alma mater of Bradley HOF'er Jim Les, and it was coached for many years by former Bradley player Tom Les, and is currently coached by another former Bradley player Kevin Clancy.

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Southern Illinois lands another 2021 recruit, their 3rd recruit for 2021 in the last two weeks. Today they received a verbal commitment from Foster Wonders, a 6'5" shooting guard from Iron Mountain HS in Iron Mountain, Michigan. He averaged 27.4 ppg, 7.8 rpg, and 2.4 apg as a junior and was named All-State in Michigan's Division 3.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/foster-wonders

https://www.cilfm.com/2020/07/13/sal...oster-wonders/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KylxabqY6Oc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wmg14DNTMk

From videos available, he appears to be a similar type player to Troy D'Amico (the 2021 recruit SIU got a commitment from yesterday), but he is maybe a better shooter..
SIU currently has no more scholarships available for 2021.


Updated 2020 & 2021 MVC commitments list-
Class of 2020 recruits-
Bradley- Darius Hannah, Connor Linke, Jayson Kent, Sean East II
Drake- Jordan Kwiecinski, Bryceson Burns, Darnell Brodie, ShanQuan Hemphill
Evansville- Trey Hall, Jax Levitch, Emmette Page, Iyen Enaruna, Alex Matthews, Tyler Fricke (walk-on)
Illinois State- Alston Andrews, Emon Washington, Josiah Strong, Howard Fleming, Alex Kotov, Dusan Mahorcic, Jayden Johnson (walkon), Sy Chatman, Nik Stadelman (walk-on)
Indiana State- Julian Larry, Nick Hittle, Kailex Stephens, Tobias "T.J. Howard, Sam Mervis, Ndongo Ndaw, Randy Miller, Jr.
Loyola- Baylor Hebb, Jacob Hutson, Damezi Anderson, Jr.
Missouri State- Sky Wicks, Demarcus Sharp, Nic Tata, Dawson Carper, Raphe Ayres, Keaton Hervey, Melvyn Ebonkoli, Lu'cye Patterson
UNI- Tytan Anderson, Nathan Heise, Bowen Born, Michael Duax, Drew Daniels (walkon), Goanar Mar
SIU- Eric Butler, Dalton Banks, Zachary Gibson (walk-on), J.D. Muila, Steven Verplancken, Chris Cross (walk-on), Jakolby Long
Valparaiso- Connor Barrett, Jacob Ognacevic, Sheldon Edwards, Goodnews Kpegeol

2021 recruits-
Bradley- Connor Hickman
Drake- Connor Enright
Indiana State- Lincoln Hale, Drew Calderon
Loyola- Ben Schwieger, Ty Johnson
Missouri State- Issac Haney
UNI- Michael Duax
SIU- Scottie Ebube, Troy D'Amico, Foster Wonders
Valparaiso- Cameron Palesse

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Loyola gets a 2021 verbal commitment- Ben Schwieger, a 6'6 SG from Waubonsie Valley HS in Aurora, IL.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/ben-schwieger

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Valparaiso gets a 2021 commitment- Cameron Palesse is a 6'4" wing player from Waukesha West HS in Wisconsin.

http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/cameron-palesse

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Loyola gets another 2021 commitment from Ty Johnson, a 6'2" point guard from DePaul College Prep in Niles, Illinois.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/tyler-johnson-il

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Bradley has not yet updated their roster page to show the new incoming players (Sean East, Jayson Kent, Darius Hannah, and Conor Linke)-

https://bradleybraves.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster

But Illinois State has posted their 2020-21 roster-

https://goredbirds.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster

But there will be one more player to add to their roster. Head Coach Dan Muller has reported that they have added another walk-on player, freshman Nik Stadelman, a 6-foot point guard from Rockford Guilford High School.

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Missouri State, which had one open scholarship left for 2020, just got a very late commitment from 6'2" guard Lu'Cye Patterson of newly formed prep school Minnesota Preparatory Academy, which was started last fall by his father Lucas Patterson-
https://twitter.com/LucyePatterson/s...57750901686272

http://verbalcommits.com/players/lu-cye-patterson

There are no reports that he had any other offers. It gives Missouri State head coach Dana Ford another possible point guard candidate, something that hurt them last season, but they haven't really got anyone with experience returning who plays PG. http://verbalcommits.com/schools/missouri-state

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Evansville head coach Todd Lickliter gets a commitment this morning from Blake Sisley, a 6'8" forward from Heritage Hills HS in Lincoln City, Indiana. It is Evansville's first commitment for the class of 2021.
Sisley averaged 19.4 points, 7.6 rebounds, 1.5 blocks and shot 65 percent from the field as a junior as his team finished 22-3. His other finalists were Wright State, Illinois-Chicago and Lipscomb.
https://www.courierpress.com/story/s...ue/3454998001/

http://verbalcommits.com/players/blake-sisley

Updated 2020 & 2021 MVC commitments list-
Class of 2020 recruits-
Bradley- Darius Hannah, Connor Linke, Jayson Kent, Sean East II
Drake- Jordan Kwiecinski, Bryceson Burns, Darnell Brodie, ShanQuan Hemphill
Evansville- Trey Hall, Jax Levitch, Emmette Page, Iyen Enaruna, Alex Matthews, Tyler Fricke (walk-on)
Illinois State- Alston Andrews, Emon Washington, Josiah Strong, Howard Fleming, Alex Kotov, Dusan Mahorcic, Jayden Johnson (walkon), Sy Chatman, Nik Stadelman (walk-on)
Indiana State- Julian Larry, Nick Hittle, Kailex Stephens, Tobias "T.J. Howard, Sam Mervis, Ndongo Ndaw, Randy Miller, Jr.
Loyola- Baylor Hebb, Jacob Hutson, Damezi Anderson, Jr.
Missouri State- Sky Wicks, Demarcus Sharp, Nic Tata, Dawson Carper, Raphe Ayres, Keaton Hervey, Melvyn Ebonkoli, Lu'cye Patterson
UNI- Tytan Anderson, Nathan Heise, Bowen Born, Michael Duax, Drew Daniels (walkon), Goanar Mar
SIU- Eric Butler, Dalton Banks, Zachary Gibson (walk-on), J.D. Muila, Steven Verplancken, Chris Cross (walk-on), Jakolby Long
Valparaiso- Connor Barrett, Jacob Ognacevic, Sheldon Edwards, Goodnews Kpegeol

2021 recruits-
Bradley- Connor Hickman
Drake- Connor Enright
Evansville- Blake Sisley
Indiana State- Lincoln Hale, Drew Calderon
Loyola- Ben Schwieger, Ty Johnson
Missouri State- Issac Haney
UNI- Michael Duax
SIU- Scottie Ebube, Troy D'Amico, Foster Wonders
Valparaiso- Cameron Palesse , Darius DeAviero, Trey Woodyard

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Valparaiso just picked up a commitment for the class of 2021. Darius DeAveiro is a 6'0" point guard from Ottawa, Canada.
He is playing at Orangeville Prep, a Canadian prep school near Toronto.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/darius-deaveiro

https://undraftedfreeagent.com/2020/09/22/valpo-lands-commitment-from-canadian-darius-deaveiro/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ZRlVIj6V0&feature=emb_logo

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Valparaiso lands a third commitment for 2021- Trey Woodyard, a 6'6" forward from London, Ohio. He played last season at London HS, but he has apparently moved to a prep school this year at International Sports Academy in Willoughby, Ohio.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/trey-woodyard

https://247sports.com/player/trey-woodyard-46098151/

https://www.hudl.com/video/3/1060567...a99224603fec91
More highlights- https://www.hudl.com/profile/10605673/Trey-Woodyard

Updated 2020 & 2021 MVC commitments list-
Class of 2020 recruits-
Bradley- Darius Hannah, Connor Linke, Jayson Kent, Sean East II
Drake- Jordan Kwiecinski, Bryceson Burns, Darnell Brodie, ShanQuan Hemphill
Evansville- Trey Hall, Jax Levitch, Emmette Page, Iyen Enaruna, Alex Matthews, Tyler Fricke (walk-on)
Illinois State- Alston Andrews, Emon Washington, Josiah Strong, Howard Fleming, Alex Kotov, Dusan Mahorcic, Jayden Johnson (walkon), Sy Chatman, Nik Stadelman (walk-on)
Indiana State- Julian Larry, Nick Hittle, Kailex Stephens, Tobias "T.J. Howard, Sam Mervis, Ndongo Ndaw, Randy Miller, Jr.
Loyola- Baylor Hebb, Jacob Hutson, Damezi Anderson, Jr.
Missouri State- Sky Wicks, Demarcus Sharp, Nic Tata, Dawson Carper, Raphe Ayres, Keaton Hervey, Melvyn Ebonkoli, Lu'cye Patterson
UNI- Tytan Anderson, Nathan Heise, Bowen Born, Michael Duax, Drew Daniels (walkon), Goanar Mar
SIU- Eric Butler, Dalton Banks, Zachary Gibson (walk-on), J.D. Muila, Steven Verplancken, Chris Cross (walk-on), Jakolby Long
Valparaiso- Connor Barrett, Jacob Ognacevic, Sheldon Edwards, Goodnews Kpegeol, Tyler Fricke (walk-on)

2021 recruits-
Bradley- Connor Hickman
Drake- Connor Enright, Tucker DeVries
Evansville- Blake Sisley, Blaise Beauchamp
Indiana State- Lincoln Hale, Drew Calderon
Loyola- Ben Schwieger, Ty Johnson
Missouri State- Issac Haney
UNI- Michael Duax
SIU- Scottie Ebube, Troy D'Amico, Foster Wonders
Valparaiso- Cameron Palesse , Darius DeAviero, Trey Woodyard

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Evansville gets a 2021 commitment from Blaise Beauchamp, a 6'1" shooting guard from Lincoln Trail CC

http://verbalcommits.com/players/blaise-beauchamp

He is a freshman at Lincoln Trail College, and will have 3 years of eligibility at Evansville starting in 2021-22.
Video from high school- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LojXHV4txO8