Quade Green is off to a great start in the summer heading into his senior season.
The 6-foot point guard from Neumann-Goretti High School and the PSA Cardinals on Thursday made the first cut for the USA Basketball U18 team.
Later this month, he is tentatively planning to visit both Duke (June 21-22) and Kentucky (June 29-30), his high school coach Carl Arrigale told SNY.tv.
And next month he will lead the PSA Cardinals (14-2) into the Nike Peach Jam. The Cardinals also feature his 7-foot teammate Mohamed Bamba, who also made the first U18 cut despite an ankle sprain that has kept him sidelined at the training camp.
“He’s great,” Bamba told Ben Roberts of the Herald-Leader of Green. “He’s so smooth and poised. You don’t see that at this age. Part of me being out here is observing, and I think he’s really making a name for himself.
“To play with a good point guard, it takes your game to a whole new level.”
Green already holds offers from numerous high-major programs, including Syracuse, Miami, Xavier and Temple, while Duke recently had two assistants at Neumann-Goretti.
Neither Duke nor Kentucky has yet to offer, but that could change. Green told reporters in Colorado that he spoke to Kentucky coach John Calipari on Tuesday.
“They make pros, of course,” Green told Roberts of UK’s program. “And they have good student-athletes. When they leave for the NBA, they come back and get their degree. They get the best out of you there.”
Kentucky has offered 2017 point guards Trae Young and Tremont Waters.
Terrance “Munch” Williams, the PSA Cardinals director, previously told SNY.tv that Green will not cut his list before August.
“Hopefully, I commit in September,” Green said recently. “That’s when I want to.”
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