(01-15-2016 05:25 PM)mrbig Wrote:  Robert Martin Jr's official visit to Rice this week had me thinking about basketball recruiting again. Rice has 1 open scholarship for next season, if they want to use it. The problem with signing a 4-player class in 2016 means that 9 of 13 scholarships would be tied up with 2016 Freshman and Sophomores and would lead to some imbalance in available schoarships moving forward.

Verbalcommits shows Rice with 6 offers to uncommitted players:
SG Maxime Boursiquot (Canadian)
SG Charles Mineland Jr.
PF Taurean Thompson (not sure if Rice is really in the picture, he is mentioned frequently in connection with Syracuse and is a consensus top-100 national recruit)
PF Mubarak Muhammed (I can't find anything about him anywhere)
PF Robert Martin Jr
C Robinson Idehen (originally from Europe, seems to be getting positive press and picking up offers)

None of the other recruiting sites shows offers to uncommitted players (a few showed players as uncommitted that had, in fact, committed elsewhere).

Also, a reminder of how young Amir Smith and Marquez Letcher-Ellis are. Amir is 15 months younger than Marcus Evans, 11 months younger than Connor Cashaw, and 8 months younger than 2016 commit Ako Adams! Letcher-Ellis is 12 months younger than Evans (do the math on the rest).

The guys I think we'd be best suited looking at are Boursiquot, Mineland, and Martin. I think with Meyer signing the book probably closed on any more of the big guys. That being said I really like Idehen from the film that I've seen.