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**Amaree Abram PG Mississippi 6-4 190 FR TX 8.0 2.0 2.0 ( Visit this weekend)
Transfer Portal Spotlight: Amaree Abram
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https://www.cougcenter.com/2023/3/3...dates-washington-state-potential-amaree-abram
The Athletic
“33. Amaree Abram | 6-4 guard | Three years of eligibility | Ole Miss
“This is a fun one. Abram is an electric scoring guard that frankly just kind of moves differently than other guys on the court. He’s extremely long and has that kind of wiry bounce you look for in prospects. He’s a crafty lefty finisher in the paint with all sorts of weird runners, push shots and floaters. As a ballhandler, he constantly has control over the ball and seems to have big hands that allow him to gather into quick moves once he gets around the basket. The numbers don’t pop off the page, but he was a freshman playing in the SEC for a bad team. He averaged eight points, two rebounds and two assists, but did so while shooting a solid 36 percent from the field. The next steps will come when he can start making even more plays for his teammates off of a live dribble, and when he can really start to weaponize that driving ability to get all the way to the rim more often. He averaged under one free throw attempt per game, which is pretty surprising given the way he can get defenders into awkward positions on the ball. He’s definitely a high-major type player, and one that I think has real upside to be a very good one by the time he hits his third season.”
twitter.com/amareeabram?s=11&t=ZMjWVkLDK9wsud9n5OAWQQ
*RaeQuan Battle SF Montana State 6-5 190 JR WA 17.7 2.9 0.9
Nigel Burris PF Idaho 6-7 222 FR CA 8.8 5.0 0.5
Tyzhaun Claude PF Western Carolina 6-8 235 JR NC 15.4 8.6 0.5
Matthew Cleveland SG FSU 6-7 200 SO GA 13.8 7.4 1.8
El Ellis SG/PG Louisville 6-3 180 SR NC 17.7 2.6 4.4
Joe Girard SG Syracuse 6-1 190 SR NY 16.4 2.8 3.0
Ishmael Leggett SG Rhode Island 6-3 190 SO MD 16.4 5.8 2.4
Reggie Luis SF Massachusetts 6-7 196 FR FL 11.5 4.6 1.3
**RJ Melendez SF Illinois 6-7 205 SO PR 6.0 3.5 0.9 (Visit this weekend)
“Melendez faced severe shooting slumps during his sophomore season and lost his starting job halfway through the schedule. While the sophomore guard wasn’t the most consistent scorer in the first half of the season, he was able to string together a few double-digit performances including a career-high 17 points against Lindenwood on November 25.
However, upon entering 2023, Melendez was unable to find his footing, often finishing games with only a few points to his name. The inconsistent scoring kept the Puerto Rico native out of head coach Brad Underwood’s starting five until late February, as team injuries allowed Melendez a chance to re-enter the lineup.
Despite the struggles, Melendez managed to close out his second year on a high note from an individual point of view. Despite losing out to Arkansas in the first round of the NCAA tournament, Melendez was one of Illinois’ most in-form players on the night with 10 points and six rebounds.”
RJ Melendez enters transfer portal after 2 seasons with Illinois - The Daily Illini
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Ben Middlebrooks PF Clemson 6-10 242 SO FL 3.1 2.7 0.4
Shawn Phillips C LSU FR 7-0 245 FR OH 1.4 2.2 0.2
*Riley SG Georgetown 6-4 200 SO NY 4.6 2.8 0.3
Carlos Stewart PG Santa Clara 6-1 185 SO LA 15.4 2.4 2.3
Myles Stute SF Vanderbilt 6-7 215 JR DC 8.4 4.6 0.6
Evan Taylor SG Lehigh 6-6 205 SR IL 14.2 6.5 1.1
**Russell Tchewa C South Florida 7-0 280 JR Cameroon 11.1 8.8 0.9 (Visit this weekend)
TB Times: After summer ordeal, Christmas brighter than ever for USF’s Russel Tchewa
“The 7-footer’s basketball career blossomed last season, then was derailed in the summer.
“He’s the best ball-screen-coverage big man in the country,” sixth-year USF coach Brian Gregory said. “We have multiple ball-screen coverages, and he’s the best at it. In this day and age, there’s nobody better than him.”
Preceding this prosperous winter was arguably the most harrowing summer of his 22-year-old life.
“It was really awful,” he said.
Stranded at home
Tchewa’s physical enormity is complemented by other equally fascinating dimensions. At his core, he’s a renaissance man who happens to rebound.
Born in the west-central African country of Cameroon and educated for part of his youth in Italy, he speaks four languages (English, French, Italian and Cameroonian English, an English dialect). One of five siblings, his father’s an electrical engineer. At Texas Tech, where he spent one season before transferring to USF, he majored in math. Earlier this month, he earned his bachelor’s degree in communications.
“Sometimes, he’s too smart,” Gregory said. “Smarter than me.”
Two summers ago, he returned to his native country — with nary a student-visa complication — for his first extended quality time with family in nearly a half-decade. His initial plan this past summer was to remain in Tampa, but he asked to return home when his father, Samuel Tchamadeu, became ill with COVID-19.
Tchewa made it to his sprawling hometown of Douala (population of nearly three million) on May 6 with no logistical glitches, turning in all required paperwork with the U.S. Embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon’s capital city. Before his scheduled return on June 11, he planned to compete with the Cameroon National Team, which was playing in an International Basketball Federation (FIBA) qualifying competition.
As that team began its travel plans, Tchewa discovered his student visa had been flagged.
“I made a mistake on my visa application,” he said.
“So basically, they asked me where I was born and where I’m staying. So I said I was born in the U.S. and I stayed in Cameroon. It was supposed to be the opposite. But I made a mistake because they asked that question more than five or seven times. So I was confused.”
That seemingly benign error begat a summer of trepidation.
Tchewa scurried to correct the application and get it through proper channels but heard nothing regarding approval. A month became two, then three. Suddenly, his graduation schedule was being jeopardized; Tchewa took some courses online, though connection issues and the five-hour time difference made things tricky.
Grocery bills also ballooned as the bustling household — which featured visiting relatives almost daily — suddenly had a 280-pound athlete to nourish regularly.
“At some point, my parents would say, ‘Hey Russ, when are you going back? You eat all the food,’” he said with a chuckle.
Meantime, his basketball development came to a screech. While the Bulls went through an eight-week summer workout program, Tchewa didn’t even have access to an open gym.
“He had nothing, nothing,” Gregory said. “He sent videos of (him) running in the mud and on the dirt, trying to stay in shape.”
As the summer lingered, Gregory solicited the help of USF’s Office of International Services, as well as state and local congress members, or anyone with any bureaucratic pull.
“It was really, really frustrating because I was waiting for a long time,” Tchewa said.
Finally, right at the dawn of September, fortune pivoted.
“It was 4:35 (a.m.),” Tchewa recalled. “I’m a big-time morning guy, so I love to wake up in the morning. So every (morning at) 4:35, I’m just awake. And I just checked my phone, and I saw my coach sent me a message: My visa application had changed from ‘processing’ to ‘administrative processing.’ So that means they are looking for it now.”
Later that same morning, he learned the visa had been approved. Tchewa made the four-hour drive to Yaounde for the visa and returned to Douala for his flight back to the U.S.
He landed at Tampa International Airport on Sept. 3, the day of the USF football team’s home opener. Bulls assistant Larry Dixon was there to greet him. His first American indulgence upon returning?
“Chipotle,” he said with a robust laugh.
“The first thing I did was give him a big hug, because I was so happy to see him,” Dixon said. “It was just a joy and excitement because of the whole ordeal. We didn’t didn’t know if he was going to get back.”
Finding his old form
In a sense, Tchewa’s just now getting his sea legs under him. The performances he recently has pieced together probably would’ve manifested themselves earlier were it not for his extended absence. He averaged 11.6 points and seven rebounds in the final nine games of the previous season, and the hope was the momentum would spill into the summer and fall.
“But we’re just now getting (that momentum) back,” Dixon said.
“All it was was getting in shape and getting balance and getting his timing back. Because again, he was over there (in Cameroon) running and doing some stuff, but he wasn’t playing and getting his everyday workouts.”
At least that beaming, broad grin never lost its midseason form and will widen as winter segues into spring. Tchewa has begun his masters program, and though he formally earned his undergraduate degree earlier this month, he won’t participate in a commencement ceremony until May — so his family from Cameroon can attend.
Meantime, there’s Christmas. He’ll spend it with the sprawling collegiate family he feared he may never see in person again.
“Coach BG (Gregory) was calling me every day, he was trying to get me back,” Tchewa said. “He called everybody, congressmen, he did his best. I really, really appreciate what he did for me.”
https://www.tampabay.com/sports/bul...el-tchewa-cameroon-visa-issues-brian-gregory/
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Noah Thomasson SG Niagara 6-3 195 SR TX 19.6 3.8 3.5 (Visit 4-21)
Niagara transfer Noah Thomasson will visit San Francisco on April 14-15 and Georgia on April 21-22, he tells @hoopgate.
Niagara transfer Noah Thomasson (@NoahTheShow) has scheduled a visit to St. John’s April 25-26th, he tells me.
Averaged 19.5 PPG this season.
Buffalo News:
“Noah Thomasson toted a bag of garbage to his dormitory’s community trash receptacle when he saw the alert on his phone last April from Marcus Hammond.
Hammond, a guard on the Niagara men’s basketball team and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference's second-leading scorer in 2021-22, told the world through his social media accounts that he planned to transfer to Notre Dame for his final year of eligibility.
For a few seconds, Thomasson was startled by the announcement. Then, he thanked Hammond for what he did as a teammate. Then Thomasson realized something: His role at Niagara was about to become more significant, going into the 2022-23 season.
“I was happy for him, and that’s one of the closest teammates I’ve ever had,” Thomasson said of Hammond, who averaged 18.1 points in 29 games last season. “I also looked at it as an opportunity for me to showcase my talent and my ability.”
His first year at Niagara, Thomasson went through homesickness, adjusting to new teammates and learning a new system and style of basketball as a transfer from Butler (Kan.) Community College.
The prospect of taking a bigger role in his second season with the Purple Eagles terrified Thomasson a little bit, too. How does a team replace its leading scorer and the spark plug of its offense, anyways?
Ultimately, the challenge energized him.
“I thought, I’ve got to work,” Thomasson said. “I’ve got to step my game up. I’ve got to do more.”
Thomasson, a 6-foot-3 senior, is one of two co-leaders in scoring in the MAAC; he and Marist’s Patrick Gardner each average 18.9 points. Thomasson averages 4.1 rebounds and 3.6 assists in 24 games for the Purple Eagles (14-10, 9-6 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference), who play at 7 p.m. Friday at Mount St. Mary’s in Emmitsburg, Md., and then at 2 p.m. Sunday at Marist in Poughkeepsie.
The Purple Eagles are fourth in the 11-team MAAC with five games left in the regular season; the top five teams in the conference earn a bye to the quarterfinals of the MAAC Tournament, which begins March 7 in Atlantic City, N.J.
“Going into this upcoming season, we had 10 new guys, and for him, with his experience, his leadership, he’s somebody that we’ve talked about who has dependability and consistency,” coach Greg Paulus said. “He’s a guy that has really demonstrated that, each and every day, whether it’s practice, film or games. Last year he may have thought it was Marcus’ team, or someone that’s been in the program for a couple years. This year, Noah, with experience and who he’s becoming, we want him to lead us. That’s something he’s done a terrific job at.”
From Houston to Kansas
As a freshman at Houston Baptist, which is now Houston Christian, Thomasson lived in a dormitory that was less than 15 minutes from his home in Houston, and he’d split time between his family’s home and campus. He worries he spent a little too much time at home.
He averaged four points and 1.1 rebounds in 24 games in 2019-20, and Houston Baptist won only four games that season. Thomasson realized he wanted a different college basketball experience.
“I felt like I wanted a lot more,” said Thomasson, who grew up in Houston. “I had high expectations for myself.
“I’m not saying Houston Baptist didn’t have aspirations to win, but it was a tough year and I really didn’t make the right decisions at school. And I just said, ‘Maybe I need a new start. Maybe getting away from home might be the best thing for that.’ ”
Butler coach Kyle Fisher, though, saw a project when Thomasson got to Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kan., in August 2020.
“He was not in any condition to be a college basketball player,” Fisher said. “He came in after the Covid shutdown. There was no NCAA Tournament. Most of the gyms were locked up. The first thing he had to work really hard on was to get his conditioning back.”
‘Be yourself, Noah, be yourself’
Acclimating to another new space was not easy for Thomasson. For the second time in as many years, he had to learn about new teammates, new coaches, new classes, a new campus and a new routine.
Paulus sensed that uneasiness in Thomasson last fall, and set a goal for the new guard: Be yourself.
Easier said than done, right? In Thomasson’s case, it took some patience.
“We were trying to get him to be more aggressive, trying to get him just to be himself,” Paulus said. “That’s what we kept saying, ‘be yourself, Noah, be yourself.’ Over the course of the season, you saw it evolve. You saw the hard work he put in, and the development that he’s really done here, over the last year and a half, I think it’s shown from the first game (in 2021) he’s been here to where he is, now.
"But we had to continue to push him outside his comfort zone. And he’s a guy that wants to be coached. He wants to be better. He wants to learn what he can do, to improve on and off the court.”
It also took a team effort for Thomasson to reach that point. Thomasson said he doesn’t naturally ease into a new setting, that the process comes with small struggles.
He averaged 7.1 points and 2.8 assists in his first 12 games with the Purple Eagles last season as a transfer. He continued to find a balance, but players such as Hammond, Shandon Brown and Justin Roberts were quick to offer him encouragement as he absorbed more information, then produced.
“When I started to get the hang of, it, that’s when you really saw it start to take off,” said Thomasson, who averaged 10.8 points, 2.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists in 30 games last season. “But my teammates helped me out, too. They were just telling me, every day, ‘you know, you can play like you’re a good basketball player, and that’s why they brought you here.’
“When I started hearing that, it was like, alright, they have confidence in me, they believe in me. Now, I’ve got to start doing it, and believing in myself.”
Nobody expected Thomasson to be the next Hammond when the guard left for Notre Dame in the spring. Paulus didn't want Thomasson to be the next Hammond, either.
Instead, the focus was on making Thomasson into a better version of Thomasson.
“They’re two different players,” Paulus said. “We want him to be Noah. Who he was last year to where he is now, it’s something he’s worked really hard for.
“There were some challenging moments last year and as you go through that, that’s where you learn a lot about yourself. We were just watching tape the other day and talking and said to him, ‘we’re going to keep working to push you to continue to grow.’ ”
Chance Westry SG Auburn 6-6 190 FR PA
2.5 0.7 1.0
**Sahvir Wheeler PG Kentucky 5-9 180 SR TX 7.7 2.3 5.6 (Visited last weekend)
The Athletic:
72. Sahvir Wheeler | 5-9 point guard | One year of eligibility | Kentucky
“Ever since seeing him at the grassroots level, I’ve always been a fan. Back then what stood out was his motor and willingness to guard 94 feet. He needs to get in a program that can really bring that defensive pest out of him. He also needs to play in the right system offensively, where his speed and passing can be utilized. He can get his feet in the paint and get guys shots. He’s never been a good shooter, but he deserves some credit for getting to a point where he can at least make an open 3. He made 15-of-41 (36.6 percent) this season. He probably caught too much flak for his play at Kentucky. He wasn’t the type of talent Kentucky fans are used to seeing at point guard. But it takes a real pro to shine in John Calipari’s offense, which lacks creativity and flow. Put shooters around him and a big who can catch and finish, and he’s going to rack up assists. Obviously there’s some limitations defensively because of his size, but he’s going to battle.”
Tedrick Wilcox SG St. Francis, NY 6-6 188 SR RI 11.3 3.7 2.1
Latrell Wrightsell SG Cal Fullerton 6-3 189 JR NE 16.3 4.5 2.4
UGA Follows on Twitter:
Amaree Abram PG Mississippi
Dale Bonner PG Baylor
Ricky Bradley PG VMI
Nigel Burris F Idaho State
**Blue Cain SG IMG (Georgia Tech) (Followed by multiple UGA coaches, visited last weekend)
Nate Calmese SG Lamar
Chico Carter SG South Carolina
Tyzhaun Claude PF Western Carolina
Batcho Daniel C Texas Tech
Jared Garcia PF Salt Lake CC
Brandon Gardner PF Christ King HS, NY
Keshad Johnson SF San Diego State
Dalton Knecht SF Northern Colorado
Ishmael Leggett SG Rhode Island
Reggie Luis SG Massachusetts
RJ Melendez SF Illinois
Julian Roper SG Northwestern
Myles Stute SF Vanderbilt
UGA Followers on Twitter:
Amaree Abram PG Mississippi
Ricky Bradley PG VMI
Nigel Burris F Idaho State
**Blue Cain SG IMG Georgia Tech
Chico Carter SG South Carolina
Tyzhaun Claude PF Western Carolina
Jared Garcia PF Salt Lake CC
Dalton Knecht SF Northern Colorado
Julian Roper SG Northwestern
Myles Stute SF Vanderbilt
Asher Woods SG VMI ( Following UGA Coaches and Charles Mann)
2023 HS Signees affected by coaching changes we would love to talk to:
Contacted: Blue Cain SG IMG - Georgia Tech (NIL release) 6-4 180 (UGA Contact) (UGA follows him and his parents on social media and they follow back) (Visited last weekend)
twitter.com/bluecain1?s=11&t=ZMjWVkLDK9wsud9n5OAWQQ
Brandon Gardner PF Christ the King - St.John’s (Originally from Waynesboro) (Released from NLI)
Committed Elsewhere:
Bradley Dean SG UVA Wise - Miami, OH
Tyler Houser C VMI - Delaware
Xander Rice PG Bucknell - Monmouth
BJ Mack PF Wofford - Not in his final 10
Lawson Lovering C Colorado - Utah
EJ Jarvis PF Yale - Florida
Jaykwon Walton SF Wichita St - Alabama
Ta’lon Cooper PG Minn - South Carolina
Kadin Shedrick C Virginia - Not on final list
Mike Meadows SG Portland - Loyola, LA
Jerome Brakefield PF Miss - Mississippi
Johnny O’Neil PF American - Santa Clara
Jordan Minor PF Merrimack - Virginia
Jayden Pierre PG Providence - Providence
Primo Spears PG Georgetown (Not in his final list)
Josh Cohen PF St. Francis Massachusetts
John Hugley PF Pittsburgh (Not in his final three)
Denver Jones SG Florida International - Auburn
Chris Ledlum PF Harvard (Not among his list of visits)
Nicolas Timberlake SG Towson (Not among his list of visits)
Kowacie Reeves SF Florida - Georgia Tech
Caleb Mills SG FSU - Memphis
Damian Dunn SG Temple - Houston
Maxwell Land SG St. Francis, Pa - South Alabama
Keshon Gilbert SG UNLV - Iowa State
Jalen Cone PG Northern Arizona - California
Johnathan Pierre SF Nova Southeastern - Memphis
Jayden Epps PG Illinois - Georgetown
Micah Handlogten C Marshall - Florida
Jackson Paveletzke PG Wofford - Iowa State
Justin Harmon SG Utah Valley - Illinois
Quincy Olivari SG Rice - (Not in too 4)
Jayden Taylor SG Butler - NC State
Brice Williams SF Charlotte - Nebraska
AJ Storr SG St. John’s - Wisconsin
Isiah Pope SF Utah Tech - Fresno State
Jesse Edwards C Syracuse (Kansas, Gonzaga, WVA)
NCAA Basketball
The Athletic’s top 80
1 Dickinson C Michigan
2 Perry PG North Texas
3 Nembhard PG Creighton
4 Cook PG Tulane - LSU
5 Baldwin SG VCU - Penn State
6 Abamas SG Oral Roberts
7 Ashworth PG Utah State
8 Starling SG Notre Dame - Syracuse
9 Cryer G Baylor - Houston
10 Bradley PG Alabama
11 Bamba SG Washington State - Villanova
12 Nkamhua PF Tennessee
13 Lukosius SF Butler
14 Hart SF Maryland
15 Estrada SG Hofstra (Alabama, Kansas State, Florida State, Cincinnati)
16 Knecht SF Northern Colorado
17 Walton SG Wichita State - Alabama
18 Onyenso C Kentucky - Kentucky
19 Williams SF Nevada
20 Clayton PG Iona - Florida
21 Love SG North Carolina - Michigan
22 Ware C Oregon - Indiana
*23 Luis SF Massachusetts
24 Venters SF Eastern Wash - Gonzaga
25 Handlogten C Marshall - Florida
26 Menifield PG Washington - Arkansas
27 Ingram SF Stanford
28 Paveletzke G Wofford - Iowa State
29 Kriisa PG Arizona - West Virginia
30 Batcho C Texas Tech
31 Baker C Nevada - LSU
32 Rohde SF St. Thomas
33 Oduro PF Georgie Washington- Providence
34 Timberlake SG Towson
35 Aimaq C Texas Tech - California
36 Ike C Wyoming
37 Traore PF Auburn
38 Boone PF Oklahoma State
39 Mark SG Houston - Arkansas
40 Westry SG Auburn
41 Storr SG St. John’s - Wisconsin
42 DeLoach C VCU
43 Murray SG Georgetown - Mississippi
44 Nelson PG Delaware - TCU
45 Armstrong G Cal Baptist
46 Jones SG FIU - Auburn
47 Domask SF Southern Illinois - Illinois
48 Lands SF Louisville - Arizona State
49 Wrightsell SG Cal Fullerton
50 Mast C Bradley - Nebraska
51 Miller PG Central Mich - Wake Forest
52 Clark PG Illinois - Louisville
53 Nunn SG VCU
54 Bynum PG Providence
55 Rice SG Kansas
56 Krikke C Valparaiso - Iowa
57 Small G East Carolina (Oklahoma, Oklahoma State)
58 McCollum G Siena
*59 Abram G Mississippi
60 Anderson G Oklahoma State
61 Alexander G St. John’s
62 Ledlum SF Harvard
63 Ryan SG Notre Dame
64 Olivari SG Rice Xavier
65 Epps PG Illinois - Georgetown
66 Jenkins SG Iona - St. John’s
67 Gainey SG SC Upstate
68 Lenard SF MTSU - Memphis
69 Shedrick C Virginia
70 Lampkin C TCU - Colorado
71 Minor PF Merrimack - Virginia
*72 Wheeler PG Kentucky
73 Hill SF Oklahoma
74 Sallis G Gonzaga
75 Taylor SG Butler - NC State
76 Dunn SG Temple - Houston
77 Battle SF Minnesota - Ohio State
78 Tonje SG Colorado State - Missouri
79 Girard G Syracuse
80 Clemence C Kansas
By School:
Alabama
Jaykwon Walton Wichita State 6-7
Arizona State
Kamari Lands Louisville 6-8
Arkansas
Khalif Battle Temple 6-5
Jeremiah Davenport Cincinnati 6-7
Tramon Mark Houston 6-5
Keyon Menifield Washington 6-1
Auburn
Denver Jones Florida International 6-4
Boise State
Roddie Anderson San Diego 6-2
Cam Martin Kansas 6-9
O’mar Stanley St. John’s 6-8
Boston College
Claudell Harris Charleston Southern 6-3
Bradley
Trey Pettigrew Nevada 6-3
Kyle Thomas Eastern Illinois 6-10
BYU
Ally Khaliffa Charlotte 6-11
Butler
Pierre Brooks Michigan State 6-6
Andre Screen Bucknell 7-0
California
Fardaws Aimaq Texas Tech 6-11
Jalen Cone Northern Arizona 5-10
Cincinnati
Jamille Reynolds Temple 6-9
Clemson
Jake Heidbreder Air Force 6-5
Colorado
Eddie Lampkin TCU 6-11
Creighton
Isaac Traudt Virginia 6-10
Dayton
Javon Bennett Merrimack 5-11
Enoch Cheeks Robert Morris 6-3
DePaul
Jaden Henley Minnesota 6-7
Jetemiah Oden Wyoming 6-8
East Carolina
Bobby Pettiford Kansas 6-1
Florida
Walter Clayton Iona 6-3
Micah Handlogten Marshall 7-1
EJ Jarvis Yale 6-8
Tyrese Samuel Seton Hall 6-10
Florida State
Josh Nickelberry LaSalle 6-4
Jamir Watkins VCU 6-7
Florida Gulf Coast
Dallion Johnson Penn State 6-3
Fresno State
Enoch Boakye Arizona State 6-10
Xavier Dusell Wyoming 6-4
Isiah Pope Utah Tech 6-6
George Washimgton
Benny Schroder Oklahoma 6-7
Georgetown
Rowan Brumbaugh Texas 6-4
Jayden Epps Illinois 6-1
Dontrez Styles North Carolina 6-6
Georgia Tech
Ebenezer Dowuona NC State 6-11
Kowacie Reeves Florida 6-7
Gonzaga
Steve Venters Eastern Washington 6-7
Hawaii
Justin McKoy North Carolina 6-8
Houston
LJ Cryer Baylor 6-1
Damien Dunn Temple 6-5
Illinois
Marcus Domask Southern Illinois 6-6
Justin Harmon Utah Valley 6-4
Indiana
Payton Sparks Ball State 6-9
Ke’lel Ware Oregon 7-0
Iowa
Ben Krikke Valparaiso 6-9
Iowa State
Keshon Gilbert UNLV 6-4
Jackson Paveletzke Wofford 6-5
LSU
Baker Nevada 7-0
Jalen Cook Tulane 6-0
Jordan Wright Vanderbilt 6-6
Louisville
Skyy Clark Illinois 6-1
Loyola Chicago
Dame Adelekun Dartmouth 6-8
Desmond Watson Davidson 6-5
Loyola Maramount
Justice Hill LSU 6-0
Mike Meadows Portland 6-2
Justin Wright NC Central 6-2
Maryland
Chance Stephens Loyola Maramount 6-3
Massachusetts
Josh Cohen St. Francis 6-10
Memphis
Nick Jourdain Temple 6-8
Teafale Lenard MTSU 6-7
Caleb Mills FSU 6-5
Johnathan Pierre Nova SE 6-9
Michigan
Nimari Burnett Alabama 6-4
Tray Jackson Seton Hall 6-10
Caleb Love North Carolina 6-4
Minnesota
Mike Mitchell Pepperdine 6-2
Jack Wilson Washington State 6-11
Mississippi
Brandon Murray Georgetown 6-5
Missouri
Tamar Bates Indiana 6-5
John Tonje Colorado State 6-5
Nebraska
Rienk Mast Bradley 6-9
Brice Williams Charlotte 6-7
New Mexico
Nelly Junior Joseph Iona 6-9
North Carolina
Jaelyn Withers Louisville 6-8
Paxson Wojcick Brown 6-5
North Carolina State
Jayden Taylor Butler 6-3
Northern Illinois
Doctor Bradley New Mexico State 6-8
Northwestern
Blake Preston Liberty 6-9
Ohio State
Jamison Battle Minnesota 6-7
Oral Roberts
Braeden Moore BYU 6-9
Penn State
Ace Baldwin VCU 6-1
Nick Kern VCU 6-5
Pepperdine
Ethan Anderson Wyoming 6-1
Pittsburgh
Zach Austin High Point 6-5
Providence
Justyn Fernandes George Mason 6-5
Devonte Gaines George Mason 6-7
Josh Oduro George Mason 6-9
Purdue
Lance Jones Southern Illinois 6-1
Rhode Island
Jaden House High Point 6-3
Luis Kortright Quinnipiac 6-3
Zek Montgomery Bradley 6-6
Rice
Sam Alijiki California 6-7
Noah Shelby Vanderbilt 6-3
Rutgers
Noah Fernandes Massachusetts 5-11
St. John’s
Nahiem Alleyne Connecticut 6-4
Sean Conway VMI 6-5
Cruz Davis Iona 6-3
Daniss Jenkins Hofstra 6-3
St. Louis
CJ Noland Oklahoma 6-2
San Diego State
Reese Dixon-Waters USC 6-5
San Francisco
Malik Thomas USC 6-5
Santa Clara
Adama Bai Arizona 6-7
South Alabama
Thomas Howell UL Monroe 6-8
Maxwell Land St. Francis 6-4
Samuel Tabe Seton Hill 6-5
South Carolina
Stephen Clark Citadel 6-8
Ta’lon Cooper Minnesota 6-4
South Florida
Kasen Jennings Kennesaw State 6-3
Braden Stroud Kennesaw State 6-6
Chris Youngblood Kennesaw State 6-4
SMU
Denver Anglin Georgetown 6-1
Chuck Harris Butler 6-2
Syracuse
JJ Starling Notre Dame 6-4
TCU
Essam Mostafa Charlotte 6-9
Jameer Nelson Delaware 6-1
Trey Tennyson Texas A&M CC 6-4
Texas State
Coleton Benson Army 6-1
Tulane
Kolby King St. John’s 6-2
Tulsa
Isaiah Barnes Michigan 6-7
UAB
Daniel Ortiz North Alabama 6-0
James White Mississippi 6-6
UCLA
Larry Stefanovic Utah 6-7
Utah
Lawson Lovering Colorado 7-1
Villanova
Mo Bamba Washington 6-1
Virginia
Dante Harris Georgetown 6-0
Jordan Minor Merrimack 6-8
Virginia Commonwealth
Joe Barnisile Oklahoma 6-4
Virginia Tech
Mekhi Long Old Dominion 6-7
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**Amaree Abram PG Mississippi 6-4 190 FR TX 8.0 2.0 2.0 ( Visit this weekend)
Transfer Portal Spotlight: Amaree Abram
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https://www.cougcenter.com/2023/3/3...dates-washington-state-potential-amaree-abram
The Athletic
“33. Amaree Abram | 6-4 guard | Three years of eligibility | Ole Miss
“This is a fun one. Abram is an electric scoring guard that frankly just kind of moves differently than other guys on the court. He’s extremely long and has that kind of wiry bounce you look for in prospects. He’s a crafty lefty finisher in the paint with all sorts of weird runners, push shots and floaters. As a ballhandler, he constantly has control over the ball and seems to have big hands that allow him to gather into quick moves once he gets around the basket. The numbers don’t pop off the page, but he was a freshman playing in the SEC for a bad team. He averaged eight points, two rebounds and two assists, but did so while shooting a solid 36 percent from the field. The next steps will come when he can start making even more plays for his teammates off of a live dribble, and when he can really start to weaponize that driving ability to get all the way to the rim more often. He averaged under one free throw attempt per game, which is pretty surprising given the way he can get defenders into awkward positions on the ball. He’s definitely a high-major type player, and one that I think has real upside to be a very good one by the time he hits his third season.”
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*RaeQuan Battle SF Montana State 6-5 190 JR WA 17.7 2.9 0.9
Nigel Burris PF Idaho 6-7 222 FR CA 8.8 5.0 0.5
Tyzhaun Claude PF Western Carolina 6-8 235 JR NC 15.4 8.6 0.5
Matthew Cleveland SG FSU 6-7 200 SO GA 13.8 7.4 1.8
El Ellis SG/PG Louisville 6-3 180 SR NC 17.7 2.6 4.4
Joe Girard SG Syracuse 6-1 190 SR NY 16.4 2.8 3.0
Ishmael Leggett SG Rhode Island 6-3 190 SO MD 16.4 5.8 2.4
Reggie Luis SF Massachusetts 6-7 196 FR FL 11.5 4.6 1.3
**RJ Melendez SF Illinois 6-7 205 SO PR 6.0 3.5 0.9 (Visit this weekend)
“Melendez faced severe shooting slumps during his sophomore season and lost his starting job halfway through the schedule. While the sophomore guard wasn’t the most consistent scorer in the first half of the season, he was able to string together a few double-digit performances including a career-high 17 points against Lindenwood on November 25.
However, upon entering 2023, Melendez was unable to find his footing, often finishing games with only a few points to his name. The inconsistent scoring kept the Puerto Rico native out of head coach Brad Underwood’s starting five until late February, as team injuries allowed Melendez a chance to re-enter the lineup.
Despite the struggles, Melendez managed to close out his second year on a high note from an individual point of view. Despite losing out to Arkansas in the first round of the NCAA tournament, Melendez was one of Illinois’ most in-form players on the night with 10 points and six rebounds.”
RJ Melendez enters transfer portal after 2 seasons with Illinois - The Daily Illini
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Ben Middlebrooks PF Clemson 6-10 242 SO FL 3.1 2.7 0.4
Shawn Phillips C LSU FR 7-0 245 FR OH 1.4 2.2 0.2
*Riley SG Georgetown 6-4 200 SO NY 4.6 2.8 0.3
Carlos Stewart PG Santa Clara 6-1 185 SO LA 15.4 2.4 2.3
Myles Stute SF Vanderbilt 6-7 215 JR DC 8.4 4.6 0.6
Evan Taylor SG Lehigh 6-6 205 SR IL 14.2 6.5 1.1
**Russell Tchewa C South Florida 7-0 280 JR Cameroon 11.1 8.8 0.9 (Visit this weekend)
TB Times: After summer ordeal, Christmas brighter than ever for USF’s Russel Tchewa
“The 7-footer’s basketball career blossomed last season, then was derailed in the summer.
“He’s the best ball-screen-coverage big man in the country,” sixth-year USF coach Brian Gregory said. “We have multiple ball-screen coverages, and he’s the best at it. In this day and age, there’s nobody better than him.”
Preceding this prosperous winter was arguably the most harrowing summer of his 22-year-old life.
“It was really awful,” he said.
Stranded at home
Tchewa’s physical enormity is complemented by other equally fascinating dimensions. At his core, he’s a renaissance man who happens to rebound.
Born in the west-central African country of Cameroon and educated for part of his youth in Italy, he speaks four languages (English, French, Italian and Cameroonian English, an English dialect). One of five siblings, his father’s an electrical engineer. At Texas Tech, where he spent one season before transferring to USF, he majored in math. Earlier this month, he earned his bachelor’s degree in communications.
“Sometimes, he’s too smart,” Gregory said. “Smarter than me.”
Two summers ago, he returned to his native country — with nary a student-visa complication — for his first extended quality time with family in nearly a half-decade. His initial plan this past summer was to remain in Tampa, but he asked to return home when his father, Samuel Tchamadeu, became ill with COVID-19.
Tchewa made it to his sprawling hometown of Douala (population of nearly three million) on May 6 with no logistical glitches, turning in all required paperwork with the U.S. Embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon’s capital city. Before his scheduled return on June 11, he planned to compete with the Cameroon National Team, which was playing in an International Basketball Federation (FIBA) qualifying competition.
As that team began its travel plans, Tchewa discovered his student visa had been flagged.
“I made a mistake on my visa application,” he said.
“So basically, they asked me where I was born and where I’m staying. So I said I was born in the U.S. and I stayed in Cameroon. It was supposed to be the opposite. But I made a mistake because they asked that question more than five or seven times. So I was confused.”
That seemingly benign error begat a summer of trepidation.
Tchewa scurried to correct the application and get it through proper channels but heard nothing regarding approval. A month became two, then three. Suddenly, his graduation schedule was being jeopardized; Tchewa took some courses online, though connection issues and the five-hour time difference made things tricky.
Grocery bills also ballooned as the bustling household — which featured visiting relatives almost daily — suddenly had a 280-pound athlete to nourish regularly.
“At some point, my parents would say, ‘Hey Russ, when are you going back? You eat all the food,’” he said with a chuckle.
Meantime, his basketball development came to a screech. While the Bulls went through an eight-week summer workout program, Tchewa didn’t even have access to an open gym.
“He had nothing, nothing,” Gregory said. “He sent videos of (him) running in the mud and on the dirt, trying to stay in shape.”
As the summer lingered, Gregory solicited the help of USF’s Office of International Services, as well as state and local congress members, or anyone with any bureaucratic pull.
“It was really, really frustrating because I was waiting for a long time,” Tchewa said.
Finally, right at the dawn of September, fortune pivoted.
“It was 4:35 (a.m.),” Tchewa recalled. “I’m a big-time morning guy, so I love to wake up in the morning. So every (morning at) 4:35, I’m just awake. And I just checked my phone, and I saw my coach sent me a message: My visa application had changed from ‘processing’ to ‘administrative processing.’ So that means they are looking for it now.”
Later that same morning, he learned the visa had been approved. Tchewa made the four-hour drive to Yaounde for the visa and returned to Douala for his flight back to the U.S.
He landed at Tampa International Airport on Sept. 3, the day of the USF football team’s home opener. Bulls assistant Larry Dixon was there to greet him. His first American indulgence upon returning?
“Chipotle,” he said with a robust laugh.
“The first thing I did was give him a big hug, because I was so happy to see him,” Dixon said. “It was just a joy and excitement because of the whole ordeal. We didn’t didn’t know if he was going to get back.”
Finding his old form
In a sense, Tchewa’s just now getting his sea legs under him. The performances he recently has pieced together probably would’ve manifested themselves earlier were it not for his extended absence. He averaged 11.6 points and seven rebounds in the final nine games of the previous season, and the hope was the momentum would spill into the summer and fall.
“But we’re just now getting (that momentum) back,” Dixon said.
“All it was was getting in shape and getting balance and getting his timing back. Because again, he was over there (in Cameroon) running and doing some stuff, but he wasn’t playing and getting his everyday workouts.”
At least that beaming, broad grin never lost its midseason form and will widen as winter segues into spring. Tchewa has begun his masters program, and though he formally earned his undergraduate degree earlier this month, he won’t participate in a commencement ceremony until May — so his family from Cameroon can attend.
Meantime, there’s Christmas. He’ll spend it with the sprawling collegiate family he feared he may never see in person again.
“Coach BG (Gregory) was calling me every day, he was trying to get me back,” Tchewa said. “He called everybody, congressmen, he did his best. I really, really appreciate what he did for me.”
https://www.tampabay.com/sports/bul...el-tchewa-cameroon-visa-issues-brian-gregory/
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Noah Thomasson SG Niagara 6-3 195 SR TX 19.6 3.8 3.5 (Visit 4-21)
Niagara transfer Noah Thomasson will visit San Francisco on April 14-15 and Georgia on April 21-22, he tells @hoopgate.
Niagara transfer Noah Thomasson (@NoahTheShow) has scheduled a visit to St. John’s April 25-26th, he tells me.
Averaged 19.5 PPG this season.
Buffalo News:
“Noah Thomasson toted a bag of garbage to his dormitory’s community trash receptacle when he saw the alert on his phone last April from Marcus Hammond.
Hammond, a guard on the Niagara men’s basketball team and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference's second-leading scorer in 2021-22, told the world through his social media accounts that he planned to transfer to Notre Dame for his final year of eligibility.
For a few seconds, Thomasson was startled by the announcement. Then, he thanked Hammond for what he did as a teammate. Then Thomasson realized something: His role at Niagara was about to become more significant, going into the 2022-23 season.
“I was happy for him, and that’s one of the closest teammates I’ve ever had,” Thomasson said of Hammond, who averaged 18.1 points in 29 games last season. “I also looked at it as an opportunity for me to showcase my talent and my ability.”
His first year at Niagara, Thomasson went through homesickness, adjusting to new teammates and learning a new system and style of basketball as a transfer from Butler (Kan.) Community College.
The prospect of taking a bigger role in his second season with the Purple Eagles terrified Thomasson a little bit, too. How does a team replace its leading scorer and the spark plug of its offense, anyways?
Ultimately, the challenge energized him.
“I thought, I’ve got to work,” Thomasson said. “I’ve got to step my game up. I’ve got to do more.”
Thomasson, a 6-foot-3 senior, is one of two co-leaders in scoring in the MAAC; he and Marist’s Patrick Gardner each average 18.9 points. Thomasson averages 4.1 rebounds and 3.6 assists in 24 games for the Purple Eagles (14-10, 9-6 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference), who play at 7 p.m. Friday at Mount St. Mary’s in Emmitsburg, Md., and then at 2 p.m. Sunday at Marist in Poughkeepsie.
The Purple Eagles are fourth in the 11-team MAAC with five games left in the regular season; the top five teams in the conference earn a bye to the quarterfinals of the MAAC Tournament, which begins March 7 in Atlantic City, N.J.
“Going into this upcoming season, we had 10 new guys, and for him, with his experience, his leadership, he’s somebody that we’ve talked about who has dependability and consistency,” coach Greg Paulus said. “He’s a guy that has really demonstrated that, each and every day, whether it’s practice, film or games. Last year he may have thought it was Marcus’ team, or someone that’s been in the program for a couple years. This year, Noah, with experience and who he’s becoming, we want him to lead us. That’s something he’s done a terrific job at.”
From Houston to Kansas
As a freshman at Houston Baptist, which is now Houston Christian, Thomasson lived in a dormitory that was less than 15 minutes from his home in Houston, and he’d split time between his family’s home and campus. He worries he spent a little too much time at home.
He averaged four points and 1.1 rebounds in 24 games in 2019-20, and Houston Baptist won only four games that season. Thomasson realized he wanted a different college basketball experience.
“I felt like I wanted a lot more,” said Thomasson, who grew up in Houston. “I had high expectations for myself.
“I’m not saying Houston Baptist didn’t have aspirations to win, but it was a tough year and I really didn’t make the right decisions at school. And I just said, ‘Maybe I need a new start. Maybe getting away from home might be the best thing for that.’ ”
Butler coach Kyle Fisher, though, saw a project when Thomasson got to Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kan., in August 2020.
“He was not in any condition to be a college basketball player,” Fisher said. “He came in after the Covid shutdown. There was no NCAA Tournament. Most of the gyms were locked up. The first thing he had to work really hard on was to get his conditioning back.”
‘Be yourself, Noah, be yourself’
Acclimating to another new space was not easy for Thomasson. For the second time in as many years, he had to learn about new teammates, new coaches, new classes, a new campus and a new routine.
Paulus sensed that uneasiness in Thomasson last fall, and set a goal for the new guard: Be yourself.
Easier said than done, right? In Thomasson’s case, it took some patience.
“We were trying to get him to be more aggressive, trying to get him just to be himself,” Paulus said. “That’s what we kept saying, ‘be yourself, Noah, be yourself.’ Over the course of the season, you saw it evolve. You saw the hard work he put in, and the development that he’s really done here, over the last year and a half, I think it’s shown from the first game (in 2021) he’s been here to where he is, now.
"But we had to continue to push him outside his comfort zone. And he’s a guy that wants to be coached. He wants to be better. He wants to learn what he can do, to improve on and off the court.”
It also took a team effort for Thomasson to reach that point. Thomasson said he doesn’t naturally ease into a new setting, that the process comes with small struggles.
He averaged 7.1 points and 2.8 assists in his first 12 games with the Purple Eagles last season as a transfer. He continued to find a balance, but players such as Hammond, Shandon Brown and Justin Roberts were quick to offer him encouragement as he absorbed more information, then produced.
“When I started to get the hang of, it, that’s when you really saw it start to take off,” said Thomasson, who averaged 10.8 points, 2.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists in 30 games last season. “But my teammates helped me out, too. They were just telling me, every day, ‘you know, you can play like you’re a good basketball player, and that’s why they brought you here.’
“When I started hearing that, it was like, alright, they have confidence in me, they believe in me. Now, I’ve got to start doing it, and believing in myself.”
Nobody expected Thomasson to be the next Hammond when the guard left for Notre Dame in the spring. Paulus didn't want Thomasson to be the next Hammond, either.
Instead, the focus was on making Thomasson into a better version of Thomasson.
“They’re two different players,” Paulus said. “We want him to be Noah. Who he was last year to where he is now, it’s something he’s worked really hard for.
“There were some challenging moments last year and as you go through that, that’s where you learn a lot about yourself. We were just watching tape the other day and talking and said to him, ‘we’re going to keep working to push you to continue to grow.’ ”
Chance Westry SG Auburn 6-6 190 FR PA
2.5 0.7 1.0
**Sahvir Wheeler PG Kentucky 5-9 180 SR TX 7.7 2.3 5.6 (Visited last weekend)
The Athletic:
72. Sahvir Wheeler | 5-9 point guard | One year of eligibility | Kentucky
“Ever since seeing him at the grassroots level, I’ve always been a fan. Back then what stood out was his motor and willingness to guard 94 feet. He needs to get in a program that can really bring that defensive pest out of him. He also needs to play in the right system offensively, where his speed and passing can be utilized. He can get his feet in the paint and get guys shots. He’s never been a good shooter, but he deserves some credit for getting to a point where he can at least make an open 3. He made 15-of-41 (36.6 percent) this season. He probably caught too much flak for his play at Kentucky. He wasn’t the type of talent Kentucky fans are used to seeing at point guard. But it takes a real pro to shine in John Calipari’s offense, which lacks creativity and flow. Put shooters around him and a big who can catch and finish, and he’s going to rack up assists. Obviously there’s some limitations defensively because of his size, but he’s going to battle.”
Tedrick Wilcox SG St. Francis, NY 6-6 188 SR RI 11.3 3.7 2.1
Latrell Wrightsell SG Cal Fullerton 6-3 189 JR NE 16.3 4.5 2.4
UGA Follows on Twitter:
Amaree Abram PG Mississippi
Dale Bonner PG Baylor
Ricky Bradley PG VMI
Nigel Burris F Idaho State
**Blue Cain SG IMG (Georgia Tech) (Followed by multiple UGA coaches, visited last weekend)
Nate Calmese SG Lamar
Chico Carter SG South Carolina
Tyzhaun Claude PF Western Carolina
Batcho Daniel C Texas Tech
Jared Garcia PF Salt Lake CC
Brandon Gardner PF Christ King HS, NY
Keshad Johnson SF San Diego State
Dalton Knecht SF Northern Colorado
Ishmael Leggett SG Rhode Island
Reggie Luis SG Massachusetts
RJ Melendez SF Illinois
Julian Roper SG Northwestern
Myles Stute SF Vanderbilt
UGA Followers on Twitter:
Amaree Abram PG Mississippi
Ricky Bradley PG VMI
Nigel Burris F Idaho State
**Blue Cain SG IMG Georgia Tech
Chico Carter SG South Carolina
Tyzhaun Claude PF Western Carolina
Jared Garcia PF Salt Lake CC
Dalton Knecht SF Northern Colorado
Julian Roper SG Northwestern
Myles Stute SF Vanderbilt
Asher Woods SG VMI ( Following UGA Coaches and Charles Mann)
2023 HS Signees affected by coaching changes we would love to talk to:
Contacted: Blue Cain SG IMG - Georgia Tech (NIL release) 6-4 180 (UGA Contact) (UGA follows him and his parents on social media and they follow back) (Visited last weekend)
twitter.com/bluecain1?s=11&t=ZMjWVkLDK9wsud9n5OAWQQ
Brandon Gardner PF Christ the King - St.John’s (Originally from Waynesboro) (Released from NLI)
Committed Elsewhere:
Bradley Dean SG UVA Wise - Miami, OH
Tyler Houser C VMI - Delaware
Xander Rice PG Bucknell - Monmouth
BJ Mack PF Wofford - Not in his final 10
Lawson Lovering C Colorado - Utah
EJ Jarvis PF Yale - Florida
Jaykwon Walton SF Wichita St - Alabama
Ta’lon Cooper PG Minn - South Carolina
Kadin Shedrick C Virginia - Not on final list
Mike Meadows SG Portland - Loyola, LA
Jerome Brakefield PF Miss - Mississippi
Johnny O’Neil PF American - Santa Clara
Jordan Minor PF Merrimack - Virginia
Jayden Pierre PG Providence - Providence
Primo Spears PG Georgetown (Not in his final list)
Josh Cohen PF St. Francis Massachusetts
John Hugley PF Pittsburgh (Not in his final three)
Denver Jones SG Florida International - Auburn
Chris Ledlum PF Harvard (Not among his list of visits)
Nicolas Timberlake SG Towson (Not among his list of visits)
Kowacie Reeves SF Florida - Georgia Tech
Caleb Mills SG FSU - Memphis
Damian Dunn SG Temple - Houston
Maxwell Land SG St. Francis, Pa - South Alabama
Keshon Gilbert SG UNLV - Iowa State
Jalen Cone PG Northern Arizona - California
Johnathan Pierre SF Nova Southeastern - Memphis
Jayden Epps PG Illinois - Georgetown
Micah Handlogten C Marshall - Florida
Jackson Paveletzke PG Wofford - Iowa State
Justin Harmon SG Utah Valley - Illinois
Quincy Olivari SG Rice - (Not in too 4)
Jayden Taylor SG Butler - NC State
Brice Williams SF Charlotte - Nebraska
AJ Storr SG St. John’s - Wisconsin
Isiah Pope SF Utah Tech - Fresno State
Jesse Edwards C Syracuse (Kansas, Gonzaga, WVA)
NCAA Basketball
The Athletic’s top 80
1 Dickinson C Michigan
2 Perry PG North Texas
3 Nembhard PG Creighton
4 Cook PG Tulane - LSU
5 Baldwin SG VCU - Penn State
6 Abamas SG Oral Roberts
7 Ashworth PG Utah State
8 Starling SG Notre Dame - Syracuse
9 Cryer G Baylor - Houston
10 Bradley PG Alabama
11 Bamba SG Washington State - Villanova
12 Nkamhua PF Tennessee
13 Lukosius SF Butler
14 Hart SF Maryland
15 Estrada SG Hofstra (Alabama, Kansas State, Florida State, Cincinnati)
16 Knecht SF Northern Colorado
17 Walton SG Wichita State - Alabama
18 Onyenso C Kentucky - Kentucky
19 Williams SF Nevada
20 Clayton PG Iona - Florida
21 Love SG North Carolina - Michigan
22 Ware C Oregon - Indiana
*23 Luis SF Massachusetts
24 Venters SF Eastern Wash - Gonzaga
25 Handlogten C Marshall - Florida
26 Menifield PG Washington - Arkansas
27 Ingram SF Stanford
28 Paveletzke G Wofford - Iowa State
29 Kriisa PG Arizona - West Virginia
30 Batcho C Texas Tech
31 Baker C Nevada - LSU
32 Rohde SF St. Thomas
33 Oduro PF Georgie Washington- Providence
34 Timberlake SG Towson
35 Aimaq C Texas Tech - California
36 Ike C Wyoming
37 Traore PF Auburn
38 Boone PF Oklahoma State
39 Mark SG Houston - Arkansas
40 Westry SG Auburn
41 Storr SG St. John’s - Wisconsin
42 DeLoach C VCU
43 Murray SG Georgetown - Mississippi
44 Nelson PG Delaware - TCU
45 Armstrong G Cal Baptist
46 Jones SG FIU - Auburn
47 Domask SF Southern Illinois - Illinois
48 Lands SF Louisville - Arizona State
49 Wrightsell SG Cal Fullerton
50 Mast C Bradley - Nebraska
51 Miller PG Central Mich - Wake Forest
52 Clark PG Illinois - Louisville
53 Nunn SG VCU
54 Bynum PG Providence
55 Rice SG Kansas
56 Krikke C Valparaiso - Iowa
57 Small G East Carolina (Oklahoma, Oklahoma State)
58 McCollum G Siena
*59 Abram G Mississippi
60 Anderson G Oklahoma State
61 Alexander G St. John’s
62 Ledlum SF Harvard
63 Ryan SG Notre Dame
64 Olivari SG Rice Xavier
65 Epps PG Illinois - Georgetown
66 Jenkins SG Iona - St. John’s
67 Gainey SG SC Upstate
68 Lenard SF MTSU - Memphis
69 Shedrick C Virginia
70 Lampkin C TCU - Colorado
71 Minor PF Merrimack - Virginia
*72 Wheeler PG Kentucky
73 Hill SF Oklahoma
74 Sallis G Gonzaga
75 Taylor SG Butler - NC State
76 Dunn SG Temple - Houston
77 Battle SF Minnesota - Ohio State
78 Tonje SG Colorado State - Missouri
79 Girard G Syracuse
80 Clemence C Kansas
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Alabama
Jaykwon Walton Wichita State 6-7
Arizona State
Kamari Lands Louisville 6-8
Arkansas
Khalif Battle Temple 6-5
Jeremiah Davenport Cincinnati 6-7
Tramon Mark Houston 6-5
Keyon Menifield Washington 6-1
Auburn
Denver Jones Florida International 6-4
Boise State
Roddie Anderson San Diego 6-2
Cam Martin Kansas 6-9
O’mar Stanley St. John’s 6-8
Boston College
Claudell Harris Charleston Southern 6-3
Bradley
Trey Pettigrew Nevada 6-3
Kyle Thomas Eastern Illinois 6-10
BYU
Ally Khaliffa Charlotte 6-11
Butler
Pierre Brooks Michigan State 6-6
Andre Screen Bucknell 7-0
California
Fardaws Aimaq Texas Tech 6-11
Jalen Cone Northern Arizona 5-10
Cincinnati
Jamille Reynolds Temple 6-9
Clemson
Jake Heidbreder Air Force 6-5
Colorado
Eddie Lampkin TCU 6-11
Creighton
Isaac Traudt Virginia 6-10
Dayton
Javon Bennett Merrimack 5-11
Enoch Cheeks Robert Morris 6-3
DePaul
Jaden Henley Minnesota 6-7
Jetemiah Oden Wyoming 6-8
East Carolina
Bobby Pettiford Kansas 6-1
Florida
Walter Clayton Iona 6-3
Micah Handlogten Marshall 7-1
EJ Jarvis Yale 6-8
Tyrese Samuel Seton Hall 6-10
Florida State
Josh Nickelberry LaSalle 6-4
Jamir Watkins VCU 6-7
Florida Gulf Coast
Dallion Johnson Penn State 6-3
Fresno State
Enoch Boakye Arizona State 6-10
Xavier Dusell Wyoming 6-4
Isiah Pope Utah Tech 6-6
George Washimgton
Benny Schroder Oklahoma 6-7
Georgetown
Rowan Brumbaugh Texas 6-4
Jayden Epps Illinois 6-1
Dontrez Styles North Carolina 6-6
Georgia Tech
Ebenezer Dowuona NC State 6-11
Kowacie Reeves Florida 6-7
Gonzaga
Steve Venters Eastern Washington 6-7
Hawaii
Justin McKoy North Carolina 6-8
Houston
LJ Cryer Baylor 6-1
Damien Dunn Temple 6-5
Illinois
Marcus Domask Southern Illinois 6-6
Justin Harmon Utah Valley 6-4
Indiana
Payton Sparks Ball State 6-9
Ke’lel Ware Oregon 7-0
Iowa
Ben Krikke Valparaiso 6-9
Iowa State
Keshon Gilbert UNLV 6-4
Jackson Paveletzke Wofford 6-5
LSU
Baker Nevada 7-0
Jalen Cook Tulane 6-0
Jordan Wright Vanderbilt 6-6
Louisville
Skyy Clark Illinois 6-1
Loyola Chicago
Dame Adelekun Dartmouth 6-8
Desmond Watson Davidson 6-5
Loyola Maramount
Justice Hill LSU 6-0
Mike Meadows Portland 6-2
Justin Wright NC Central 6-2
Maryland
Chance Stephens Loyola Maramount 6-3
Massachusetts
Josh Cohen St. Francis 6-10
Memphis
Nick Jourdain Temple 6-8
Teafale Lenard MTSU 6-7
Caleb Mills FSU 6-5
Johnathan Pierre Nova SE 6-9
Michigan
Nimari Burnett Alabama 6-4
Tray Jackson Seton Hall 6-10
Caleb Love North Carolina 6-4
Minnesota
Mike Mitchell Pepperdine 6-2
Jack Wilson Washington State 6-11
Mississippi
Brandon Murray Georgetown 6-5
Missouri
Tamar Bates Indiana 6-5
John Tonje Colorado State 6-5
Nebraska
Rienk Mast Bradley 6-9
Brice Williams Charlotte 6-7
New Mexico
Nelly Junior Joseph Iona 6-9
North Carolina
Jaelyn Withers Louisville 6-8
Paxson Wojcick Brown 6-5
North Carolina State
Jayden Taylor Butler 6-3
Northern Illinois
Doctor Bradley New Mexico State 6-8
Northwestern
Blake Preston Liberty 6-9
Ohio State
Jamison Battle Minnesota 6-7
Oral Roberts
Braeden Moore BYU 6-9
Penn State
Ace Baldwin VCU 6-1
Nick Kern VCU 6-5
Pepperdine
Ethan Anderson Wyoming 6-1
Pittsburgh
Zach Austin High Point 6-5
Providence
Justyn Fernandes George Mason 6-5
Devonte Gaines George Mason 6-7
Josh Oduro George Mason 6-9
Purdue
Lance Jones Southern Illinois 6-1
Rhode Island
Jaden House High Point 6-3
Luis Kortright Quinnipiac 6-3
Zek Montgomery Bradley 6-6
Rice
Sam Alijiki California 6-7
Noah Shelby Vanderbilt 6-3
Rutgers
Noah Fernandes Massachusetts 5-11
St. John’s
Nahiem Alleyne Connecticut 6-4
Sean Conway VMI 6-5
Cruz Davis Iona 6-3
Daniss Jenkins Hofstra 6-3
St. Louis
CJ Noland Oklahoma 6-2
San Diego State
Reese Dixon-Waters USC 6-5
San Francisco
Malik Thomas USC 6-5
Santa Clara
Adama Bai Arizona 6-7
South Alabama
Thomas Howell UL Monroe 6-8
Maxwell Land St. Francis 6-4
Samuel Tabe Seton Hill 6-5
South Carolina
Stephen Clark Citadel 6-8
Ta’lon Cooper Minnesota 6-4
South Florida
Kasen Jennings Kennesaw State 6-3
Braden Stroud Kennesaw State 6-6
Chris Youngblood Kennesaw State 6-4
SMU
Denver Anglin Georgetown 6-1
Chuck Harris Butler 6-2
Syracuse
JJ Starling Notre Dame 6-4
TCU
Essam Mostafa Charlotte 6-9
Jameer Nelson Delaware 6-1
Trey Tennyson Texas A&M CC 6-4
Texas State
Coleton Benson Army 6-1
Tulane
Kolby King St. John’s 6-2
Tulsa
Isaiah Barnes Michigan 6-7
UAB
Daniel Ortiz North Alabama 6-0
James White Mississippi 6-6
UCLA
Larry Stefanovic Utah 6-7
Utah
Lawson Lovering Colorado 7-1
Villanova
Mo Bamba Washington 6-1
Virginia
Dante Harris Georgetown 6-0
Jordan Minor Merrimack 6-8
Virginia Commonwealth
Joe Barnisile Oklahoma 6-4
Virginia Tech
Mekhi Long Old Dominion 6-7
Tyler Nickel North Carolina 6-7
Wake Forest
Kevin Miller Central Michigan 6-0
Washington
Anthony Holland Fresno State 6-5
Moses Wood Portland 6-8
West Virginia
Jesse Edwards Syracuse 6-11
Kerr Kriisa Arizona 6-3
Western Carolina
Corneilous Williams LSU 6-10
Wichita State
Harold Beverly Miami 6-4
Bijan Cortes Oklahoma 6-3
Jacob Germany UTSA 6-11
Wisconsin
Noah Reynolds Wyoming 6-3
AJ Storr St. John’s 6-6
Xavier
Logan Duncomb Indiana 6-10
Dayvion McKnight Western Kentucky 6-1
Quincy Olivari Rice 6-3
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