Thomas Bryant Visits Indiana, Could Take 2 More Trips
Thomas Bryant took an official visit to Indiana over
Thomas Bryant took an official visit to Indiana over
Derrick Jones, a 6-foot-7 wing forward from
By JACK LeGWIN
The Big Blue Madness experience at Kentucky is like nothing else, and it impressed one of the best in the nation, Malik Newman.
“It was great,” the 6-foot-4 Newman told SNY.tv Sunday evening. “I had a really great time up there.”
Ranked No. 3 in the nation in the Class of 2015 by 247 Sports, Newman said that the fans made the visit special.
“It was really great because I didn’t realize how much Kentucky loved basketball,” Newman said. “It was good because I could go and see it for myself.”
Tyus Battle enjoyed his visit to Kentucky for Big Blue Madness and heads to Duke next weekend for their Midnight Madness.
“It went very well,” Gary Battle, the player’s father who did not make the trip with Tyus, told SNY.tv. “Tyus said Big Blue Madness was awesome and Cal and coach [John] Robic were very excited about him and how he may fit if he attends the school in a few years. Ty stated that he could see how Coach Cal gets some of the best talent year after year. It was a great event.”
Battle is being recruited by virtually every major program in the country, and plans to cut his list by December. Kentucky, Duke, Syracuse, Louisville, UConn, Michigan, Ohio State and Florida are among those in the mix.
By CHIP MILLER & ADAM ZAGORIA
Carlton Bragg enjoyed his unofficial visit to Kentucky for Big Blue Madness and is still considering a potential package with fellow 2015 studs Jaylen Brown and Brandon Ingram.
“Still talking about it [with] Brandon Ingram and Jaylen Brown,” Bragg told SNY.tv Saturday.
As first reported by SNY.tv, the trio had a similar conversation last week on their trips to Kansas.
By JOSH NEWMAN
The perception of Antonio Blakeney right now is that the 5-star shooting guard reneged on his verbal commitment to Louisville, an adidas school, due to the fact that his AAU program, Each 1 Teach 1 (E1T1) is a Nike school.
Blakeney is now being courted by primarily Nike schools in Kentucky, Missouri, Florida State, USC and LSU, but he maintains that his Nike AAU affiliation has nothing to do with it.
“(The speculation emerged) because I have been playing with Nike for a long time, and Louisville is adidas, and then of course all the other schools that were on my list were Nike, so that’s a conclusion that someone could make — and it’s a conclusion that could be true — but just in my case, it’s not,” Blakeney told Steve Jones of the Courier-Journal for a story analyzing which shoe company-sponsored programs get the most recruits.
Isaiah Briscoe, Cheick Diallo and Brandon Sampson highlighted St. John’s Red Storm Season Tip-Off on Friday night.
Fans chanted “Come Here Briscoe,” according to HardwoodInsiders.com, which took this picture of Sampson and Briscoe, who is wearing a St. John’s baseball cap.
St. John’s coach Steve Lavin took three assistants to watch the 6-foot-3 Briscoe work out at Roselle Catholic on Thursday in his first workout since having the boot on his foot removed.
St. John’s may turn out to be the last visit for Briscoe, who has also tripped to Kentucky, UConn, Seton Hall and Missouri.
