Recruiting News

Pictured above, Cornell's Geoff Reeves throws down a dunk on Columbia. Below, some Ivy League recruiting news....

The Tennessean reports that Meiko Lyles, a 6'3" combo guard at at the University School of Nashville is hearing from Nevada, Tulane, Belmont, Princeton, Murray State and Georgia State.

Brice Kofane, a 6'8" 220 lb. power forward from The Miller School in Charlottesville, Virginia, has heard from Connecticut, LaSalle, Fairfield, Boston College, Harvard, and Columbia according to Scout.com.

MinneostaPreps.com interviewed Al Harris, coach of the 43Hoops AAU program. Harris mentioned Cornell's involvement with a pair of the team's prospects. Cornell is reportedly showing interest in Brett Ervin, a 6'5" 195 lb. wing from Eden Prairie High School in Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Elliot Owusu of Cretin-Derham Hall High School is also receiving Cornell's inquiries. He is a 6'4" wing. See the relevant portion of the conversation below:

MN Preps: Is it valid to say that right now you have about five guys who are getting division one basketball consideration and the rest of the group is getting strong to decent division two attention?

Al Harris: That would be correct as I'm looking at the five guys who likely have the opportunity to play division one. I would say that Brett Ervin, Vinard Birch, and Jordan Reetz are definitely division one players, Clay Horne has the chance as he is the kid on my team with the highest level of potential as my phone has not stopped ringing about him. Clay already has a division two offer from Minnesota State-Mankato and he can likely get as many D2 offers as he wants. So I'm thinking he can be a D1 player. Elliot Owusu because of his academics and athletic ability, the way he's defending and because he's getting more and more skilled offensively I don't think he'll go division two. I think he will go division one. It just depends on what he is interested in in relation to his high level of academics. A big thing is that Elliot wants to get his school paid for. He doesn't want to have to deal with loans so he could go D2. Elliot has Western Illinois, Mt. St. Mary's, SIU-Edwardsville, Cornell, American, and places like that really looking hard at him. Unless he has a poor last ten days I really think he'll go D1 and I doubt that he will happen (meaing he doesn't think there is a chance Owusu struggles down the stretch).

MN Preps: Right now what schools are looking hard at Brett Ervin?

Al Harris: Hot on Brett's trail right now is Valparaiso. I also just received a call from Cornell about Brett, Eastern Kentucky, Western Michigan, Southern Indiana who is D2 talked about offering him, Drake talked about him, Northern Iowa has talked about him, those schools are watching him close and interested. Right now I don't think it's a matter of knowing if Brett can play its more about some of them seeing Brett as an option when some other guys are off the books. They may have had a top two or three guys that were the options but many are committing and I think at that point Brett will get even more interest at that mid-major level. But Valpo is hard after him and they will watch Brett close this week in Vegas.