Rutgers, Seton Hall watch Paul Mulcahy one day after he watches them
One day after Paul Mulcahy watched Rutgers
One day after Paul Mulcahy watched Rutgers
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Paul Mulcahy, the 6-foot-5 point guard from Gill St. Bernard’s, sat courtside Sunday when Rutgers stunned St. John’s, 80-78, in a charity exhibition game.
Rutgers is recruiting Mulcahy hard, and it probably didn’t hurt their cause that they knocked off a St. John’s team with NCAA Tournament aspirations.
“Yeah, that was good, I was happy for them,” he told me courtside. “It should be a big year for them. This is the recruiting class that they kind of picked, with Geo [Baker] and Myles [Johnson]. Bu it was exciting.”
Asked how hard Rutgers was recruiting him, Mulcahy said, “Pretty hard, I talk to them all the time. They could see me coming in and playing right away and helping them change the image of Rutgers basketball. It would be a big year for them, the 2019 class. They need a point guard. They don’t know if [junior] Corey [Sanders] is going to be here for much longer.”
By ADAM ZAGORIA
UNION, N.J. — If Rutgers is going to continue its upward swing under new coach Steve Pikiell, it will need to recruit at a high level — both locally and nationally — to compete in the Big Ten.
On the local level, that means getting involved early and often for young stars like Paul Mulcahy, the 6-foot-5 Class of 2019 point guard out of Gill St. Bernard’s and the NJ Playaz AAU program.
Mulcahy holds offers from Rutgers, Virginia Tech, Boston College and SMU and recently attended the Nebraska-Rutgers game at the RAC.
“I like how Coach Pikiell’s on this rebuilding thing and how he’s real big on New Jersey basketball,” Mulcahy said Saturday after scoring 14 points in a 52-45 win over Our Savior New American in the Metro Classic at Kean University.
