Posts Tagged ‘James Blackmon’

Indiana state playoffs kick off with sectional play

Published by Source on February 28th, 2012

Across the state of Indiana, a number of B1G and local committed prospects will be looking to advance their high school teams through sectionals. Play kicks off Tuesday night and 4 future state champions begin their journey to glory. Indiana separates high schools into 4 separate classes based on enrollment size (4A has the biggest schools, down to A with the smallest). A number of huge games will take place tonight, as the blind draw put several high profile teams against each other in the first round. Below is a breakdown of where the notable players will be and when you can check them out (all commits are 2012 unless noted otherwise, some times will be approx. as they may depend on previous game):

CLASS 4A

Sec. 1: Glenn Robinson III (Michigan) and Lake Central face Munster at Gary West Side (Tues 8pm/7 CT)

Sec. 6: VJ Beachem (Notre Dame ’13) and New Haven will play Jay County at Huntington North (Tues 6pm/5 CT)

Sec. 8: Ronnie Johnson (Purdue), Patrick Ingram (Iowa) and North Central face Gary Harris (Michigan State) and Zak Irvin (Michigan ’13) at Noblesville (Tues 7pm/6 CT)

Sec. 10: Jeremy Hollowell (Indiana) and Lawrence Central will meet Trey Lyles (Indiana ’14) and Arsenal Tech at Tech (Tues 6pm/5 CT)

Sec. 10: Collin Hartman (Indiana ’13) and Cathedral faces Basil Smotherman (Purdue ’13) and Lawrence North at Tech (Tues 7:30/6:30 CT)

Sec. 10: Devin Davis Jr. (Indiana ’13) and Warren Central will face the winner of the Lawrence Central/Tech game on Friday at Tech (6pm/ 5CT)

Sec. 11: Austin Burgett (Notre Dame) and Avon take on Southport at Southport (Tues 7pm/6 CT)

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Hoosier Hysteria Unofficial Guest List

Published by Source on October 13th, 2011

Plenty of prospects, some already committed to IU but most undecided, will be making their way to Bloomington on Saturday Oct. 15th for the annual Hoosier Hysteria “midnight madness” event. Normally, the festivities take place on Friday night, but with an away football game that weekend the event was moved to Saturday evening. Head coach Tom Crean has put together an impressive group of prospects for the weekend, including a large contingent from the state of Kentucky.

This move also coincides with the official visit of 2012 star Gary Harris (Fishers, IN) who will be making his official visit that Saturday. Normally, official visits get started on Friday but since Harris is a football player he will be busy that night.

Notably missing are Indiana’s two 2014 verbals James Blackmon Jr and Trey Lyles, who will be attending the USA Basketball Mini Camp in Colorado for the weekend. 2013 target BeeJay Anya has also been invited to the camp. 2014 prospect Jaquan Lyle (Evansville Bosse) considered attending, but as of Thursday night he is not planning on it. It is possible he will head up to Merrillville, IN for the Pangos All-Midwest camp instead.

UPDATE: These are guests of a different type, but IU Athletics has announced that college basketball TV broadcaster Bill Raftery will be at Assembly Hall as an announcer, and former Hoosiers/current NBA players Eric Gordon and DJ White will be in attendance.

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B1G / Chicago Recruiting Tidbits – Friday 10/7

Published by Source on October 7th, 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:

 

* Two teammates from Fishbourne Military Academy (Va.) committed to UIC on the same day, apparently unbeknownst to one and other. Prep school seniors Matt Gorski and Jake Wiegland both made the call for the Flames on Monday afternoon after being recruited by Donnie Kirksy. Gorski is a 7-foot center who also considered Hofstra and UAB and Wiegland is a 6’8″ forward that chose UIC over The Citadel and IUPUI. Fishbourne head coach told Scott Powers of ESPNChicago, “They play defense, rebound and really bring some toughness.” Gorski and Wiegland join Whitney Young’s Gabriel Snider as the three members of Howard Moore’s 2012 class at UIC.

* USA Men’s Basketball announced Monday the 27-player roster for their October Mini-Camp. The event will be held in Colorado Springs, CO next weekend (Oct. 15-16). The timing will prevent the attendees from checking out the Midnight Madness events going on all over the country that weekend. Some of the notable players invited to attend are Indiana 2014 verbals James Blackmon and Trey Lyles, Chicago prospects Jabari Parker, Kendrick Nunn, Paul White and Jahlil Okafor, 2013 prospects BeeJay Anya (IU interest), Charles Tucker (Mich, MSU, OSU), Larry Austin (OSU, Ill), Demonte Flannigan (OSU, Wisc), Rondae Jefferson (PSU), Jared Swopshire (Ill, Iowa, Marq, Minn, SIU) and Jonathan Williams (MSU), and 2014 Tyus Jones (IU, Iowa, Marq, Minn, OSU).

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