Onetime Southern Miss guard Kenneth Ortiz is taking an online class and will then officially transfer from Southern Miss. Wagner and Temple are in the mix for the 5-11, 180-pound Ortiz, with Wagner the leader at this point. “He has spoken with the folks at Wagner,” Newark Science coach Milt Gaylord said. “They like the situation at Wagner. Right now Wagner is the leading school. He has not visited Temple, but plans to visit Temple.” Gaylord said Ortiz never got the playing time he wanted at Southern Miss after they went to a halfcourt offense. “They wound up playing a halfcourt game,” Gaylord said. “He didn’t get to play a lot. He felt he needed to go somewhere where he could play.’ FREE THROWS St. John’s made official Tuesday the hiring of former Rice High School coach Moe Hicks as Director of Basketball Operations. SNY.tv reported the news on May 5…St. Patrick’s senior guard Kevin Boyle Jr. will not play hoops in college and will enroll at the New York Film Academy instead, per Alex Kline. (Photos courtesy NJHoops.com and Houston Athletics) Follow Adam Zagoria on Twitter
Onetime Southern Miss guard Kenneth Ortiz is taking an online class and will then officially transfer from Southern Miss. Wagner and Temple are in the mix for the 5-11, 180-pound Ortiz, with Wagner the leader at this point. “He has spoken with the folks at Wagner,” Newark Science coach Milt Gaylord said. “They like the situation at Wagner. Right now Wagner is the leading school. He has not visited Temple, but plans to visit Temple.” Gaylord said Ortiz never got the playing time he wanted at Southern Miss after they went to a halfcourt offense. “They wound up playing a halfcourt game,” Gaylord said. “He didn’t get to play a lot. He felt he needed to go somewhere where he could play.’ FREE THROWS St. John’s made official Tuesday the hiring of former Rice High School coach Moe Hicks as Director of Basketball Operations. SNY.tv reported the news on May 5…St. Patrick’s senior guard Kevin Boyle Jr. will not play hoops in college and will enroll at the New York Film Academy instead, per Alex Kline. (Photos courtesy NJHoops.com and Houston Athletics) Follow Adam Zagoria on Twitter