Above, Cornell sophomore Alex Hill. Below, some recruiting news from around the Ivy League.Winona, Minnesota's Alec Brown has scholarship offers from Air Force, Bowling Green, Bucknell, Loyola-Chicago, Wisconsin-Green Bay, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Fairfield, Oral Roberts, Florida Gulf Coast, and South Dakota State. However, the 6'11" 200 lb. post player recently has seen interest from Princeton pick-up.
Rivals.com reports that Harvard has expressed interest in class of 2011's Chasson Randle, a 6'1" point guard from Rock Island, Illinois.
NYCHoopsNet reports that Horace Greeley High School's Matt Townsend, a 6'6" forward from Chappaqua, New York attended camps this summer at Harvard and Yale. Thus far, he says he has seen the most interest come from Yale and Tufts.
Penn is expecting an official visit in the coming weeks from 6'11" 190 lb. Mike Kurtz from Roseville, California and Woodcreek High School according to NorCalPreps.com. Kurtz has already taken unofficial visits to Pacific and Sacramento State, with another unofficial to UC Davis happening soon. He also has an official visit upcoming for UC Irvine. He wants to land at "a school hosting a good business program" and, although he isn't necessarily tied to it, his "parents would love that it not be too far from home."
Josh Huestis from Great Falls, Montana and Russell High School confirmed with SCPLaybook.com that he has scheduled an official visits to Harvard and USC. The 6'7" forward also said that he expects to take an official visit to Harvard September 11, but that date has not been finalized. Others recruiting Huestis include Stanford, Oregon State, Oklahoma State, Marquette, Arizona State, Santa Clara, Montana and Montan State. He has offers on the table from USC, Harvard, Santa Clara, Montana and Montana State.
The Cornell Basketball Blog has now identified twelve high school seniors (members of the high school class of 2010) which have received reported "offers" from Coach Tommy Amaker and his staff to join the Harvard basketball program. The "offered" high school seniors are listed below. They are in addition to the Crimson's two verbal commitments already received. Click here to see our related post about Harvard's roster overload.
Josh Huestis (Russell HS) Great Falls, MT 6-7
Denzel Brito (Lawrence Academy) Lawrence, MA 6-0
Aaron Brown (St. Benedict's) Newark, NJ 6-4
Chad Calcaterra (Cloquet) Cloquet, MN 6-11
Jeremy Jeffers (Greenfield School) Wilson, NC 6-5/180
Keala King (Dominguez HS) Compton, CA 6-5
Majok Majok (Northfield Mount Hermon School) Northfield, MA 6-8
Dominic Morris (Friends Central School) Wynnewood, PA 6-7
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Dwight Powell (IMG Academy of Brandeton FL), Ontario, Canada 6-8
Brice Kofane (Miller School) Charlottesville, VA 6-8
Achraf Yacoubou (Long Island Luthern HS), Long Island, NY 6-3
Also on the topic of recruiting, a pair of young assistant coaches in the Ivy League are both currently recruiting and coaching against their Ivy League alma maters.
Mike Martin is an assistant coach for the Penn Quakers. He is a 2004 graduate of Brown University and a former guard for the Bears. After graduating Brown, Martin served as an assistant coach at his alma mater under Glen Miller. When Miller left the head coaching position at Brown to take head job at Penn, Martin followed along. The transition by the coaches was not taken well by some of the players at Brown. "When (Miller) goes to a rival school, in a way, you feel like it's betrayal," said former Brown player Damon Huffman to the Brown Daily Herald. According to the Brown Daily Herald, some Brown players disliked Miller because of his "hot temper" and used Miller's and Martin's move as extra motivation to try and knock off the Quakers during Ivy League play.
But Martin is not the only Ivy assistant coaching against his alma mater. Yanni Hufnagel is currently an assistant coach at Harvard. He is a 2006 graduate of Cornell with a bachelor of science degree from Cornell's prestigious School of Industrial and Labor Relations. While at Cornell, Hufnagel served as a student manager for one season with the Big Red.
Both Martin and Hufnagel play integral roles in recruiting efforts for their current employers.
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