JMU received an early commitment from 6'5 SF Christian Depollar. Depollar plays for St. Stephens & St Agnes School in Alexandria, VA. He is also part of the DC Bluedevils AAU program.

He's an interesting recruit in that he garnered a lot of early interest going back to his Freshman year. Most recently he went on an unofficial visit to Va Tech over the Summer and was being recruited by some Ivy league schools (Columbia and Princeton). JMU was his only official offer from what I can tell but it's pretty early in the 2019 recruiting process so based on the interest from other programs JMU may have landed a bit of a steal here.

Nice! Thanks for the update, NJ!

Great to see Rowe continuing to do well in the state and Mid-Atlantic. There's more than enough solid talent here in our own backyard. Seems like between the DMV and other ties the staff has to Florida and Ohio, we should continue to do well. Welcome, Mr. Depollar, to the JMU Family.

...please move post to the sticky above.

Couple of notes on JMU recruiting, both of which touch on Depollar:

https://future150.com/hs/basketball-prof...ia-va-2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/recr...4258cc9932

Thought I saw he had an offer from Dartmouth

Via verbal commits- he reopened his recruitment yesterday. Kind of an odd timed commit in the first place.

Recruiting notes

» Bullis point guard Vado Morse verbally committed to Mount St. Mary’s on Monday, according to Scout’s Evan Daniels. Morse, who plays for New World on the AAU circuit, had offers from Mount St. Mary’s and James Madison

(12-17-2017 09:29 PM)Dukeman2 Wrote:  Recruiting notes

» Bullis point guard Vado Morse verbally committed to Mount St. Mary’s on Monday, according to Scout’s Evan Daniels. Morse, who plays for New World on the AAU circuit, had offers from Mount St. Mary’s and James Madison

This is a 2018 recruit and this news is from July...

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/wilkenson-isnord

Same HS in FLA as 2018 PG target Michael Forrest

6'7 PF out of FL
https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/anthony-atkinson

(01-17-2018 09:23 AM)Bawlmer Duke Wrote:  6'7 PF out of FL
https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/anthony-atkinson

JMU recruited his older brother- Paul Atkinson another PF prospect last year. The older Atkinson wound up choosing Yale and is contributing as a true freshman.

two more offers over the weekend. Both are Florida kids with little interest at the D1 level.

Tim Dalger
http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/tim-dalger

and

Robert Hardy
http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/robert-hardy

Jamel Melvin, '19, 6'9" Fwd from DeMatha is offered... https://twitter.com/JaMelvin22?lang=en

Also, Darin Green Jr., '19, 6'4" Guard from Tampa is offered... https://twitter.com/daringreenjr

Rowe is picking up steam on the 2019 recruiting trail according to verbal commits ;

PF out of North Carolina B.J. Mack II - https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/brian-mack-ii He is a decommit from Va Tech a ways back and is being chased by a number of programs

PG out of Ohio Ra'Heim Moss - https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/ra-heim-moss Who currently holds an offer from Cincinnati for basketball and football (plus others for football)

PG out of Panama by way of a Christian school Iverson Molinar -- https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/iverson-molinar His Offer trail blew up this week

https://twitter.com/molinariverson3?lang=en

SF out of Kentucky Kyle Rode -- https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/kyle-rode

(05-05-2018 06:13 AM)Bawlmer Duke Wrote:  Rowe is picking up steam on the 2019 recruiting trail according to verbal commits ;

PF out of North Carolina B.J. Mack II - https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/brian-mack-ii He is a decommit from Va Tech a ways back and is being chased by a number of programs

PG out of Ohio Ra'Heim Moss - https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/ra-heim-moss Who currently holds an offer from Cincinnati for basketball and football (plus others for football)

PG out of Panama by way of a Christian school Iverson Molinar -- https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/iverson-molinar His Offer trail blew up this week

https://twitter.com/molinariverson3?lang=en

SF out of Kentucky Kyle Rode -- https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/kyle-rode

Molinar looks to be a reach. Is he still playing in Southern California? He looks like the real deal...if JMU can sign him. For those who are interested:

https://www.toacorn.com/articles/the-answer-2-0/

May be a little early for a 2020 MBB recruiting thread, I dunno. I see on VerbalCommits.com that we have offered 3 rising juniors from the Atlanta area. Per the NCAA recruiting calendar, coaches were allowed to begin contacting 2020 recruits Friday/yesterday (technically at midnight Thursday night), so not surprised to see a flurry of offers getting out there and likely more to come to rising juniors.

You'll likely continue to see some offers announced over the next few days. JMU just hosted an elite camp. Lot of 2020 offers as a result of having kids on campus.

(06-18-2018 09:27 PM)NJDuke97 Wrote:  You'll likely continue to see some offers announced over the next few days. JMU just hosted an elite camp. Lot of 2020 offers as a result of having kids on campus.

Glad we are hosting camps.....it is always a good thing just to get the kids on campus.

A check of verbalcommits.com advises the Dukes offered 6'9" PF Joel Kabimba yesterday. He's at Middleburg Academy in NoVa.

Tweets advising he's having an excellent camp at the Scouts Focus event at Charlottesville High School.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/joel-kabimba

verbalcommits.com only shows JMU & Norfolk State currently offering. Hopefully getting in early for a commit that may be about to blow up in terms of recruitment could help our chances. We'll see...

Keep an eye on Odessa Juco. Years ago they produced Larry Johnson. Most recently JMU recruited Develle Phillips from Odessa. It's the highest level of Juco in the country. In recent weeks they have nabbed 3 recruits of note- one a 7 foot transfer from Dayton, another a wing James Reese from Buffalo who JMU recruited out of high school. A third- a SG from Linden NJ (1st team all state) Tavon Jones.

The only thing working against the Dukes is that their head coach left to be an assistant at Iona. The new Head guy was formerly an assistant at UTEP. Hopefully JMU stays close to this program because it could be a nice pipeline of prospects- example Reese in 2019, Jones in 2020.