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2007 BU commitment- Sam Maniscalco

I don't think he is as quick as Ruffin, very few PGs are.

Maybe a little more similar to the Holsinger kid at Evansville, but he will be stronger, and will have played against better competetion (Holsinger was from a small school). He is a very good ball handler.
 
this could be a good sign for us since he plays on the same AAU team as TJ Marion, maybe TJ will see now that BU is the place to be.
 
Sam Maniscalco is one of the best shooters around, and capable of creating his own shots.
He is a very smart player and can play the PG and SG position. BU has no guarantee that DRuff will get his 4th year of eligibility (although DR is on track grade-wise that it is likely) and Will Franklin will be gone after next year, so Sam will have an opportunity to contribute as a freshman.
 
Bradley needs to get an inside player for one of the remaining two scholarships for 2006. I'd hate to go back to where the center position is the weakest link.
 
Hoopmasters now has a story about Sam and BU
http://www.hoopmasters.com/

So does Rivals
http://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=526179

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Bradley Picks Up Chicago Point Guard

Jerry Meyer
Rivals.com Basketball Recruiting Recruiting Analyst

Not only is Bradley in the Sweet 16, but the Braves also picked up a junior commitment from Sammy Maniscalco. The 6-foot, 175-pound point guard from St. Patrick's High School in Chicago, Ill., will follow in his father's footsteps as a second generation point guard for Bradley.

"Sammy is a tough, hard nosed player who comes from a basketball family," said Maniscalco's AAU coach Mike Mullins of the Illinois Wolves. "His father played point at Bradley.

"He can shoot it and handle it and he's a tenacious defender. They got him early and that's a good thing. They didn't want him to get away, since he is from the Bradley family."

Maniscalco averaged 23 points per game this season and scored over 30 points on five occasions. One of those games was against the then number one ranked team in the state St. Joseph's, whom two of his AAU teammates Evan Turner and Demetri McCamey.

Loyola Chicago and Wisconsin-Green Bay had offered Maniscalco, and he was also getting interest from DePaul.
 
scout/insiders has one also, so BU is really getting some pub!!

http://scout.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=9&cfg=bb&c=2&yr=2006&cid=511789

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Brave New World For Junior PG
by Dave Telep of Scout.com, March 21, 2006 at 6:06pm ET

Sam Maniscalco Profile

Sam Maniscalco, a point guard out of St. Patrick High in Chicago, committed to the Bradley Braves on Tuesday. The 6-foot- Maniscalco is a junior and plays with the Illinois Wolves on the summer circuit.
???‚¬?“Sammy is the first member of the Illinois Wolves 2007 class to make a decision,???‚¬?? coach Mike Mullins said. ???‚¬?“Sammy???‚¬?„?s father was a point guard for Bradley in the 1980; his mother was a point guard for DePaul in the same era.???‚¬??

Bradley, of course, is Sweet 16-bound and this is the first strike by a mid-major program capitalizing on its post-season success this year.
 
I noticed Romain Martin, a three star shooting guard, in the class of '06. He lists Bradley first. He's from Minnesota. Any news?
 
oilerpimp said:
I noticed Romain Martin, a three star shooting guard, in the class of '06. He lists Bradley first. He's from Minnesota. Any news?
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BU Has been on this kid for awhile now.. he is visiting some big schools(Big Ten, Marquette) and is on the national radar.. I know he has been discussed on this board before...
 
Romain Martin is a "tweener"- he plays more of a forward type game, but he's only 6'3". I think he'll end up at a mid-major like Illinois State. No offense to other schools interested, but Bradley is after better players.

I talked to a talent evaluator in the Chicago area. He was thrilled that Bradley got Sam Maniscalco, and said BU got a steal. Sam was definitely under the radar before this year, but really came on strong. He thinks he will be one of the top 3 point guards in Illinois next year. That is saying something when #1 is Derrick Rose (some national sites list Rose as the #1 PG in the US for 2007), and #2 is probably a kid named Jacob Pullen, who will get offers from Big 10 schools, etc.

Maniscalco is the real thing. He's as smart a point guard as you'll find, a lights-out shooter, tremendous passer, and has already developed a reputation as a top defender.
 
Couldn't agree more, BU Fan.
Bradley fans will love Sam, and smart does describe him well.
Here are some facts.
As a junior, he led his school to the Sectional semi's against Jeffrey Jordan's Wilmette Loyola.
Loyola has several other fine players, at least two of which are getting some D-I looks, but Maniscalco's team is basically Sam plus role players. He literally carries this team himself and it shows as St. Pats was outrebounded by a much bigger Loyola 40-21.
Chicago St. Patrick is Class AA school with little or no real basketball history in IHSA.
They've won a few regionals over the years but never gone past Sectional, yet almost did it this year with the loss to Loyola.
We'll see how he does next year, his senior year, but averaging 22 points as a junior is impressive.
 
Officially, for us message board geeks, he will now be referred to as "SM".

Congrats to him and the Braves.
 
I do know that in Chicago and his teammates call him "Scalco." I have been in and out of the chicago area many times and have heard them refer to Sam as "scalco" which also goes along with his last name. So lets refer to sam as "Scalco."
 
This may be a wierd question... but when do we find out what number a player will wear? I'd just like to know? Thanks. My guess would be about the time the media guide's released...
 
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