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Monte Morris (2013) to Iowa State

Published by Source on June 27th, 2012

Flint Beecher senior-to-be Monte Morris has made his college decision. The Michigan-native will take his talents to Ames to be an Iowa State Cyclone. The news comes on Morris’ 18th birthday.

Morris, a 6’1″ point guard ranked in the top 100 by all the major recruiting services, made the announcement in front of an audience in his high school gymnasium. He put ISU assistant coach Cornell Mann on speaker phone so that he could hear the news at the same time as everyone else.

According to MLive.com (article linked above), Morris averaged 19.5 points, 4.7 rebounds and 3.5 assists in his junior season with the Beecher Buccaneers. There is a connection between Ames and Flint: the Cyclones were led in the 1980s by a pair of Flint products in Barry Stevens and Jeff Grayer.

The final three schools for Morris were Iowa State, Illinois and Butler. He was recruited by a number of other B1G schools, including Indiana, Michigan and Michigan State, but did not report offers from any of those programs.

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ESPN The Magazine Preseason Power Rankings

Published by Source on November 4th, 2011

ESPN The Magazine, along with David Hanner from RealGM.com, have used mathematical formulas and statistics (like returning players, injuries, coaching and recruit/transfer talent level. After doing the calculations, the Magazine ranked ALL 344 Division-1 basketball programs in order.

Below, we have listed the Top-10 programs according to the Magazine, plus all other local programs that you readers are here to find out more about! If you want to see the whole list, just click the link above (PDF format). Following each team is where they are projected to finish in their prospective conference.

1. North Carolina (1st ACC)

2. Kentucky (1st SEC)

3. Ohio State (1st B1G)

4. Connecticut (1st Big East)

5. Syracuse (2nd Big East)

6. Duke (2nd ACC)

7. Vanderbilt (2nd SEC)

8. Florida (3rd SEC)

9. Memphis (1st C-USA)

10. Louisville (3rd Big East)

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Some notable “secret scrimmages” to take place

Published by Source on October 25th, 2011

CBSSports.com senior writer Jeff Goodman released a list of “secret scrimmages” that are scheduled to take place between Thursday October 27th and Sunday November 6th. Yes, I am aware that they can not really be considered “secret” if the information is out there, so perhaps “closed scrimmage” is the better turn. Most, if not all, of the notable scrimmages below will be closed to everyone but the two teams and coaching staffs involved.

A number of the BCS schools involved will be facing off with non-BCS schools, but as you will see there are some pretty solid match-ups that will serve as great experience/practice for everyone involved. Here’s a list of the scrimmages that may be of interest to you, and if you want the full list, just click the link in the first sentence of this post:

Saturday Oct. 29th:

Wisconsin at DePaul

Bowling Green vs. Loyola (Ill) – Game in Indianapolis, IN

Northern Illinois at Drake

West Virginia at Xavier

Ball State at Wright State

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B1G / Chicago Recruiting Tidbits – Friday 9/23

Published by Source on September 23rd, 2011

Every Friday we will release a list of small recruiting news “nuggets” or “tidbits” they deserve mention on this site but do not necessarily require full articles. Here is this Friday’s edition of Recruiting Tidbits:

 

* Illinois State scored a commitment from North Chicago point guard Aaron Simpson on Wednesday afternoon. The 6-0, 170 lb Simpson is a solid prospect for the Redbirds. He has a variety of tools at point guard, being able to run the floor and facilitate, but he can also put up points. Simpson has a solid outside shot and holds the ability to get in the lane and mix it up. Several high major programs were interested in Simpson throughout his recruitment, including DePaul, Marquette, Illinois and Purdue. He is the second member of the ISU 2012 class for head coach Tim Jankovich, joining local guard prospect Anthony Beane.

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B1G / Chicago Recruiting Tidbits – Friday 9/16

Published by Source on September 16th, 2011

Every Friday we will release a list of small recruiting news “nuggets” or “tidbits” they deserve mention on this site but do not necessarily require full articles. Here is this Friday’s edition of Recruiting Tidbits:

* DePaul has added a late member to its 2011 recruiting class in JUCO point guard Worrell Clahar. The 6-foot junior comes to Chicago from Lawson State CC (Alabama) and will have 2 years of eligibility with the Blue Demons. The commitment actually happened over Labor Day weekend, but got lost in the shuffle by yours truly. Apologies on that one!

* Chicago’s Simeon Career Academy was the place to be for college coaches on Wednesday night as all eyes were on 2013 star Jabari Parker. In the house to see Parker were head coaches and/or assistants from over 20 D1 schools, headlined by Mike Krzyzewski (plus 2 Duke assistants), Tom Izzo, Roy Williams, Thad Matta (plus assistant), Bill Self (plus assistant), Bruce Weber (plus assistant), Oliver Purnell and Larry Krystkowiak (Utah). Several other local schools were represented, including Chicago State, UIC, Valpo, Illinois State and Northern Illinois. The workout also featured Marquette commit and Steve Taylor (2012) and Texas A&M verbal Kendrick Nunn (2013).

* Indiana commitment Peter Jurkin (2012) has been out of basketball for most of the last year with a stress fracture in his leg. Inside The Hall is reporting that Jurkin is now back at full strength after missing most of his junior season and the entire AAU evaluation period.

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Interview with 2012 Michigan commit Nick Stauskas

Published by Source on August 11th, 2011

Back in June, the Windy City Source’s Michigan recruiting contributor [JH] had a chance to interview rising senior and Michigan verbal Nick Stauskas:

Nick Stauskas committed to The University of Michigan back in March, joining fellow forward Glenn Robinson III.  Nick is currently ranked as one of the top 100 players in America, as well as one of the top ranked players in Canada.  He has spent time playing in prep schools in Connecticut and, most recently, at St. Mark’s in Massachusetts.  Windy City Source recently spoke to Nick about basketball in Canada vs. the U.S., what he sees in his future at Michigan, and everything in between.

Here’s part 1 of the interview. Keep a look out for the second and final part tomorrow!

Windy City Source:  Talk a little bit about your basketball background and what your high school career has been like to this point.

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