AJ Youngman

[tornado]

Manual clobbered Normal Community
Youngman 12, Williams 8, Romon-Watkins 23

[tornado]

Boston College was one of the first schools to offer AJ two years ago..
they were there to watch AJ Youngman last Tuesday when he went for 25 pts & 8 rebs - they are still reportedly very interested.

http://www.pjstar.com/article/20140612/SPORTS/140619649/?Start=2

http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/sports/local-sports/youngman-enjoying-camp-move-to-morton

some highlights

https://twitter.com/SpeaksBball/status/684708000263606272

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Manual is playing in the Highland Shootout
they are currently in te 4th quarter playing vs. one of the top teams in the Midwest - Tolton Catholic - who have a 5-Star kid Michael Porter - one of the top 3 kids in the entire naiton

https://sports.yahoo.com/usf/basketball/recruiting/rankings/rank-rivals150/2017

In the 4th quarter -
Tolton 54 - Manual 51
Da'Monte Williams had 13, Romon Douglas-Watkins has 15, AJ Youngman has 10, Michael Porter has 24

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Manual ties it at 59 with 5:40 to go
multiple college scouts there to see Porter -also getting a good look at the Manual guys

[tornado]

Manual now down 71-61 with a minute to go

[tornado]

Final score
Tolton 75 - Manual 66
Da'Monte Williams 18, A.J. Youngman 16, Romon Douglas-Watkins 14
Tolton's Michael Porter 31

[Da Coach]

Video interview with AJ Youngman-

http://www.prephoops.com/2016/01/aj-youngman-video/

He mentions recruiting in the last 20 seconds of the interview, and says "I still have the 10 offers" and "the latest one was Siena".

So this list of 10 offers from Verbalcommits.com is probably pretty accurate-

https://verbalcommits.com/players/a-j-youngman

[LongTimeFan]

Verbal Commits is not even showing any interest from Bradley.

[Da Coach]

That is not entirely accurate. Our coaches are certainly aware of him and he has attended a few games.

[tornado]

in Manual's big win over Danville AJ Youngman had 16 - as did Watkins,
Da'Monte Williams had 22

[turtle]

I guess Manual lost in that Highland Shootout Jan 14th -- of course the PJS has no clue about it and I cant even find any scores on the internet

[tornado]

is that the game they lost to Tolton Catholic that is mentioned at the top of this page?

[Deadguy35]

That is the game that Manual lost in the Highland Shootout.

Tornado is a far better source for Manual results than the Journal Star. I don't know how he does it, but when I want to find out the results of a Manual game, I'll come to this thread first.

[Da Coach]

Thanks deadguy! There are some who don't like a few of his opinions, but we are grateful for all the meaningful sports content tornado adds to this forum. It is one of the reasons that even in a historically down season, this website still records millions of page-views per month. I doubt any other sports site or forum in Central Illinois gets anywhere near as much traffic.

[tornado]

Manual loses an early game to Rockford Boylan 76-64
..stats not yet available