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Friday, September 25, 2009

Recruiting News: Big Weekend for Harvard

Below, some recruiting news from around the Ivy League.

Northstar Basketball Blog reports that Harvard leads for the services of Aaron Brown, a 6'4" guard from St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, N.J. Brown's second and third choices are Penn and Auburn respectively with Virginia Tech and Providence also fighting to get into the picture.

Northstar Basketball Blog also reports that Chase Plummer, a 6'5" guard from St. Patrick's High School in Elizabeth, N.J. and Wayne Newsom, a 6'7" forward from Piscataway, N.J. appear focused on non-Ivy low and mid major schools after showing some Ivy interest earlier during the summer.

Finally, the site reports that James Herring, a 6'3" guard from Phillips Exeter Academy has a top three in the following order-- Dartmouth, Bucknell, followed by Cornell with NJIT and Columbia fighting to get involved.

Harvard had a big recruiting weekend last weekend with visits from 6'7" Josh Huestis (Russell HS) Great Falls, Mt. and 6'8" Cameroon native, Brice Kofane (Miller School) Charlottesville, Va. Harvard's primary competitor for Huestis could be USC while Kofane is hearing from Boston College, La Salle, and URI.

But this is the even bigger weekend for the Crimson with the following reported visitors, each of whom hold multiple high major scholarship offers.

  • Majok Majok (Northfield Mounter Hermon School) Northfield, MA 6-8
  • Austin Carroll (Worcester Academy) Worcester, MA 6-3
  • Pe'Shon Howard (Oak Hill Academy) Oak Hill, VA 6-3 (not confirmed visit)
  • Ugo Okam (Monteverde Academy) Monteverde, FL 7-1
  • Rod Odom (Middlesex School) Concord, MA 6-8/195
  • Dwight Powell (IMG Acad. of Brandeton FL), Ontario, Canada 6-8

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