Another hometown star, Nick King. High grades, high character, a big winner.

Ranked anywhere from #14 to #28, depending on which rankings you use.

Tigers now have ESPN #15 class for 2013, with more coming. Marquette at #5, Louisville at #7. ND at #14. nBE looking good.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketba...-nick-king

(08-27-2012 06:49 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Another hometown star, Nick King. High grades, high character, a big winner.

Ranked anywhere from #14 to #28, depending on which rankings you use.

Tigers now have ESPN #15 class for 2013, with more coming. Marquette at #5, Louisville at #7. ND at #14. nBE looking good.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketba...-nick-king

Cincinnati is at #25 as well....

(08-27-2012 07:09 PM)Bearcat_Bounce Wrote:  

(08-27-2012 06:49 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Another hometown star, Nick King. High grades, high character, a big winner.

Ranked anywhere from #14 to #28, depending on which rankings you use.

Tigers now have ESPN #15 class for 2013, with more coming. Marquette at #5, Louisville at #7. ND at #14. nBE looking good.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketba...-nick-king

Cincinnati is at #25 as well....

Cool. I forgot to look past the first page.

If Pastner can land Kuran Iverson, a 6-8 forward from NY, it would give us a Top 10 class easily.

(08-27-2012 07:29 PM)KingFu Wrote:  If Pastner can land Kuran Iverson, a 6-8 forward from NY, it would give us a Top 10 class easily.

Congrats on your recent pickup.

I believe UCONN is also recruiting Iverson along with CUSE and FLA. We will see who will land him. Good luck to Memphis.

Based on what is going on up at Marquette, one has to wonder how they are suddenly pulling such high recruiting classes. Even more curious is Providence, which was basically a graveyard for basketball relevance until their new coach took over last year. All of a sudden, they are recruiting top ten classes. Makes you wonder why Providence, the city and the school, are suddenly Duke, UCLA, Kentucky and Kansas all wrapped into one! Will the NCAA gumshoes be far behind?

(08-27-2012 08:14 PM)vabearcat Wrote:  Based on what is going on up at Marquette, one has to wonder how they are suddenly pulling such high recruiting classes. Even more curious is Providence, which was basically a graveyard for basketball relevance until their new coach took over last year. All of a sudden, they are recruiting top ten classes. Makes you wonder why Providence, the city and the school, are suddenly Duke, UCLA, Kentucky and Kansas all wrapped into one! Will the NCAA gumshoes be far behind?

Be glad that Providence is becoming relevant again. We need as many Big East schools as possible to be good. Adds to TV value.

(08-27-2012 08:26 PM)KingFu Wrote:  

(08-27-2012 08:14 PM)vabearcat Wrote:  Based on what is going on up at Marquette, one has to wonder how they are suddenly pulling such high recruiting classes. Even more curious is Providence, which was basically a graveyard for basketball relevance until their new coach took over last year. All of a sudden, they are recruiting top ten classes. Makes you wonder why Providence, the city and the school, are suddenly Duke, UCLA, Kentucky and Kansas all wrapped into one! Will the NCAA gumshoes be far behind?

Be glad that Providence is becoming relevant again. We need as many Big East schools as possible to be good. Adds to TV value.

Amen. Now Memphis needs some more FOOTBALL recruits, lol.

(08-27-2012 08:50 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(08-27-2012 08:26 PM)KingFu Wrote:  

(08-27-2012 08:14 PM)vabearcat Wrote:  Based on what is going on up at Marquette, one has to wonder how they are suddenly pulling such high recruiting classes. Even more curious is Providence, which was basically a graveyard for basketball relevance until their new coach took over last year. All of a sudden, they are recruiting top ten classes. Makes you wonder why Providence, the city and the school, are suddenly Duke, UCLA, Kentucky and Kansas all wrapped into one! Will the NCAA gumshoes be far behind?

Be glad that Providence is becoming relevant again. We need as many Big East schools as possible to be good. Adds to TV value.

Amen. Now Memphis needs some more FOOTBALL recruits, lol.

Agreed and I think Coach Fuente and his staff are improving on that at a nice pace.

Coach Fuente already landed a big time QB recruit in Brayden Scott out of Oklahoma. He helped lead the 19-under USA team that finished runner-up to Canada this summer.

(08-27-2012 09:29 PM)KingFu Wrote:  Coach Fuente already landed a big time QB recruit in Brayden Scott out of Oklahoma. He helped lead the 19-under USA team that finished runner-up to Canada this summer.

Was at that game, he looks good.

(08-27-2012 08:26 PM)KingFu Wrote:  

(08-27-2012 08:14 PM)vabearcat Wrote:  Based on what is going on up at Marquette, one has to wonder how they are suddenly pulling such high recruiting classes. Even more curious is Providence, which was basically a graveyard for basketball relevance until their new coach took over last year. All of a sudden, they are recruiting top ten classes. Makes you wonder why Providence, the city and the school, are suddenly Duke, UCLA, Kentucky and Kansas all wrapped into one! Will the NCAA gumshoes be far behind?

Be glad that Providence is becoming relevant again. We need as many Big East schools as possible to be good. Adds to TV value.

That's almost always because (a.) they are cheating, (b.) they hired a new assistant coach, (c.) both a and c. I don't know if they are cheating but I do know that when they added Chris Driscoll a couple of years ago is when their recruiting took off. Driscoll almost got his former player, Nerlens Noel to go to Providence and has helped land a lot of their recruits.

(08-27-2012 08:14 PM)vabearcat Wrote:  Based on what is going on up at Marquette, one has to wonder how they are suddenly pulling such high recruiting classes. Even more curious is Providence, which was basically a graveyard for basketball relevance until their new coach took over last year. All of a sudden, they are recruiting top ten classes. Makes you wonder why Providence, the city and the school, are suddenly Duke, UCLA, Kentucky and Kansas all wrapped into one! Will the NCAA gumshoes be far behind?

Providence is just doing what just about every other school that lands top recruits does.