Junior College preseason All-Americans

[Da Coach]

The NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association) has released their preseason All American selections.
Former BU commit Dwight Buycks was named 1st team All American.

NJCAA Preseason All-American Teams
By Hoopmasters Staff

NJCAA Preseason All-American Teams 2008-2009 NJCAA Division I Men's Basketball
PRE-SEASON ALL-AMERICANS

First Team
Name College HT WT PPG RPG APG SPG
Darington Hobson College of Eastern Utah 6-7 205 18.4 8.3 2.0 1.0
Brad Reese Gulf Coast Community College 6-6 202 17.0 4.0 2.0 2.0
Dwight Buycks Indian Hills Community College-Ottumwa 6-3 185 18.0 4.0 3.0 2.0
Trenton Marshall Jones County Junior College 6-5 225 23.9 7.5 2.8 1.4
Ridge McKeither North Dakota State College of Science 6-5 245 16.5 9.5 1.0 1.0
Alvin Thomas Paris Junior College 5-11 165 19.0 2.0 4.0 1.0
Lindsey Hughey Seminole State College 6-3 194 12.8 4.6 2.4 1.5
Jamel Jackson Technical Career Institutes 6-3 185 24.5 3.0 3.5 1.0
Jared Cunningham University of Arkansas-Fort Smith 6-9 225 11.5 5.6 1.0 0.5
Laquantis Stewart Walters State Community College 6-8 216 16.0 6.0 2.0 1.0

Second Team
Name College HT WT PPG RPG APG SPG
Daviel Clements Alabama Southern Community College 5-10 175 17.0 2.0 2.0 1.0
Jemal Farmer Cloud County Community College 6-5 215 16.0 5.0 1.5 1.7
Dwight Hardy Indian Hills Community College-Ottumwa 6-2 185 17.0 4.0 3.0 2.0
William Coleman Miami-Dade College 6-9 255 11.7 10.1 2.1 0.4
Westly Perryman Monroe College 6-2 180 15.3 4.4 2.6 2.5
Ahmad Grant Olney Central College 6-3 175 19.4 5.1 2.1 1.6
Donta Smith Pearl River Community College 6-4 205 15.0 8.0 2.0 2.0
David Tairu South Plains College 6-2 175 14.0 4.0 2.0 2.0
Rory Patterson Snow College 6-5 204 14.4 5.2 2.3 1.1
Jonathan Conley Temple College 6-5 215 15.0 6.0 2.0 2.0

Third Team
Name College HT WT PPG RPG APG SPG
Idell Bell Brevard Community College 6-2 170 20.7 4.6 4.0 1.6
Dominique Saunders Central Arizona College 6-3 175 19.3 7.3 4.6 2.5
Shawn Greenfield Garrett College 6-0 165 15.0 2.0 3.0 1.5
Jamail Turner Georgia Perimeter College 6-4 205 11.0 6.0 1.0 1.0
Chris Poellnitz Iowa Western Community College 6-3 205 15.7 3.6 2.0 1.0
Jordan Glynn McLennan Community College 6-7 210 12.5 8.0 0.8 1.0
Maurice McNeil San Jacinto College-Central 6-8 210 12.9 8.3 2.1 1.8
Chris Hines Southwestern Illinois College 6-8 225 13.6 7.6 2.0 2.0
Donell Wells Trinidad State Junior College 6-0 150 19.0 3.0 3.0 2.0
Jarrid Famous Westchester Community College 7-0 235 21.6 10.2 3.2 1.7

Honorable Mention
Name College HT WT PPG RPG APG SPG
Stephen Jones Black Hawk College-East 5-10 160 14.0 2.0 3.0 1.0
Casey Mitchell Chipola College 6-5 205 8.5 4.2 2.3 2.4
Daequon Montreal College of Southern Idaho 6-8 220 9.6 4.3 0.5 0.7
Andrew Young Harcum College 6-7 NA 14.6 8.3 NA NA
Michael Craion Independence Community College 6-5 200 9.1 6.2 1.3 1.5
Stanley McNeil Jackson State Community College 6-0 160 18.7 2.2 2.2 1.2
Jeremy Felton Mineral Area College 6-7 225 8.7 8.4 0.8 0.4
Tommie Sykes Odessa College 6-4 210 13.4 7.0 2.1 1.7
Moustapha Diarra Sheridan College 6-9 225 10.5 5.0 2.0 1.0
Vernon Taylor Spartanburg Methodist College 6-4 193 14.6 6.3 1.8 NA
Brandon Moore Wallace State Comm. College-Hanceville 6-7 225 8.7 5.4 1.4 0.4

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other guys on that list with local connections...

Darrington Hobson is from Decatur Christian
Brad Reese was a top target for Greg McDermott at Iowa State but committed to LSU
Jamel Jackson was at one time on the Boys to Men roster
Jared Cunningham was seriously considering Illinois before he went to juco
Jemal Farmer is from Chicago Heights Bloom HS and was a teammate of Brian Conway
Dwight Hardy is a high scoring backcourt partner of Dwight Buycks at Indiana Hills juco
Ahmad Grant is from Richwoods and played in the Hersey Hawkins Summer League at RiverPlex
Stephen Jones was once at Northern Iowa, he is originally from Bethalto, Ill., Civic Memorial High School
Jeremy Felton is a SIU verbal

http://www.njcaa.org/Teams/mbasketball/2009%20mbb%20division%201%20pre%20season%20AA.pdf

In the NJCAA Division II preseason release....
ICC is ranked 7th to start the season, and Mott is #1

http://www.njcaa.org/sports.cfm?sid=5&divid=2&gender=m&slid=2&menu=2

D-II juco Preseason All Americans include BRELAND MCKNIGHT as a 1st Team All American

http://www.njcaa.org/Teams/mbasketball/2009%20mbb%20division%202%20pre%20season%20AA.pdf

[FarmerClone]

other guys on that list with local connections...

Darrington Hobson is from Decatur Christian
Brad Reese was a top target for Greg McDermott at Iowa State but committed to LSU
Jamel Jackson was at one time on the Boys to Men roster
Jared Cunningham was seriously considering Illinois before he went to juco
Jemal Farmer is from Chicago Heights Bloom HS and was a teammate of Brian Conway
Dwight Hardy is a high scoring backcourt partner of Dwight Buycks at Indiana Hills juco
Ahmad Grant is from Richwoods and played in the Hersey Hawkins Summer League at RiverPlex
Stephen Jones was once at Northern Iowa, he is originally from Bethalto, Ill., Civic Memorial High School
Jeremy Felton is a SIU verbal

http://www.njcaa.org/Teams/mbasketball/2009%20mbb%20division%201%20pre%20season%20AA.pdf

In the NJCAA Division II preseason release....
ICC is ranked 7th to start the season, and Mott is #1

http://www.njcaa.org/sports.cfm?sid=5&divid=2&gender=m&slid=2&menu=2

D-II juco Preseason All Americans include BRELAND MCKNIGHT as a 1st Team All American
http://www.njcaa.org/Teams/mbasketba...eason%20AA.pdf

ISU offered Reese as a 2008 player and when he opted to return to JUCO instead, we targeted and received a verbal from Marquis Gilstrap, his JUCO teammate that his coach said is better than Reese, for 2009.

Jemal Farmer verballed to Arkansas.

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Reese could be a stud, but it is always hard to judge the juco kids because of the soft competition they often play,
recall how some people predicted all the ICC players from a couple years ago would have great D-I careers, and in the end none of them did!!

Gilstrap is Iowa State's wild card version of BU's Taylor Brown...a kid nobody really knew much about but is very talented..

[SaintLouBrave22]

other guys on that list with local connections...
Stephen Jones was once at Northern Iowa, he is originally from Bethalto, Ill., Civic Memorial High School

That is not the same Stephen Jones...that Stephen Jones sat out in 07 and is now playing for Lennox Forrester's SIUE Cougars..

http://www.siue.edu/ATHLETIC/MBB/20082009/sjones.html

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gotcha...thanks, sorry for the mistake

[FarmerClone]

Reese could be a stud, but it is always hard to judge the juco kids because of the soft competition they often play,
recall how some people predicted all the ICC players from a couple years ago would have great D-I careers, and in the end none of them did!!

Gilstrap is Iowa State's wild card version of BU's Taylor Brown...a kid nobody really knew much about but is very talented..

Gilstrap has only played two games thus far but has led Gulf Coast in scoring in both games. Gilstrap had 21 in game one (Reese had 14) and 24 in the second (Reese had 22). They won both games including a 90-80 win over the #21 ranked JUCO team. Sounds like Gilstrap is starting out well. He was a wild card stab, but the JUCO coach their said he was going to be a steal for ISU and since Reese is considered a first team AA, I like what Gilstrap has done so far. But the season is long and this is a very small sample.

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Now here's a real story........regarding highly rated juco recruit Brad Reese - a junior college All American


The kid had once verballed to Oklahoma State then reneged...

then he accepted an offer from LSU.....

Then he went on an unscheduled, unofficial visit to Oklahoma State last week, and didn't tell the LSU coach what it was all about.
When LSU head coach Trent Johnson found out about it (he must be reading the message boards!)
He YANKED the scholarship offer to Reese...and only 6 days in advance of the signing period!!!....leaving the kid high and dry!!

Good for Johnson, I admire that he's not letting the kid show him up......as this sounds a lot like the kid's only consideration is "me, me, me, me, me"

http://www.newsherald.com/sports/reese_69464___article.html/decision_basketball.html

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Now top rated juco player Brad Reese surprises just about everyone and sends a signed Letter of Intent to Pat Knight at Texas Tech, a school that was NOT thought to be in the lead for the kid.
Quite possibly he was looking at the really good chance of immediate playing time at Texas Tech, even though they are expected to be down this year.

http://www.redraiders.com/?p=3555

[FarmerClone]

Now top rated juco player Brad Reese surprises just about everyone and sends a signed Letter of Intent to Pat Knight at Texas Tech, a school that was NOT thought to be in the lead for the kid.
Quite possibly he was looking at the really good chance of immediate playing time at Texas Tech, even though they are expected to be down this year.

http://www.redraiders.com/?p=3555

Reese is a little bit confused as he has a poor set of handlers. I was told a year ago when ISU was recruiting him that Tech was where he would end up as his handlers have close ties with the Tech staff. Brad will be very effective at Tech, but he had some much better opportunities that he screwed up.

BTW through five games, Gilstrap is averaging 22 points and 9 boards. Sounds like their coach might have known who the better player was.