Recruiting News

Below, some recruiting news from around the Ivy League. Above, Cornell's Mark Coury, a 6'9" transfer from Kentucky.

New England Recruiting Report published a brief blurb on Steve Carver's commitment to Holy Cross. Cornell and other Ivies showed some interest, but there were no reported offers.

ChicagoHoops.com reports that Chicago Lincoln Park's Mike Gabriel, a 6'7" forward is hearing from Penn, Brown, Cornell, Loyola-IL, Indiana State, NIU, Western Michigan, Prairie View and Alabama State.

The San Luis Obispo Tribune reports that Maliik Love, a 6'2" guard from San Diego committed to Cal Poly over an offer from Air Force. Tom Tarantino, the coach at The Bishop’s School in San Diego, said Love also received recruiting attention from San Diego, San Diego State, Long Beach State, UC Riverside, Southern Methodist, Lehigh and “every single Ivy League school.”

Scout.com reports that "Harvard, Pennsylvania, St. Bonaventure, and Drexel have offered [Joey] Gripper a free ride. " He is a 6'0" point guard and a member of the class of 2011 from the Abington Friends School in Abington, Pa.

Scout.com reports that junior 6'1" point guard Reggie Perkins out of Greensboro (N.C.) Western Guilford, H.S. committed to Western Carolina. He had interest from Columbia and Harvard as well as Furman and William & Mary.

GopherIllustrated.com reports that Waconia High School's 6'8" power forward Shelby Moats currently holds offers from Utah, UW-Green Bay, UW-Milwaukee, and South Dakota State while several others are showing interest. "Utah, they have offered and they are really looking at me," Moats said. "William & Mary has been in to watch. Northwestern actually came just last week. Butler has been here. Yale, Princeton, Colorado State, and there are others, I can't think of all of them right now."

Scout.com published a story this week on the recruitment situation of Majok Majok, a 6'8" forward from the Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts. The article summarizes much of what we have previously reported.

Since arriving at NMH-- Virginia, Notre Dame, Stanford, Northwestern, Drexel, VCU, Penn State, Providence, Georgia Tech and Boston College have all stopped in to evaluate him Majok, while Virginia Tech, Alabama and Oklahoma are also showing interest. "I think he's an interesting kid," Mount Hermon coach John Carroll told Scout. "He's 6-8, 230 and runs the floor well. He's got good hands and he's very athletic and he's tough. The more his name gets out there the more his recruiting picks up." One of the schools recruiting Majok is Harvard, but he's forced to wait for his SAT scores and grades before going further in the process with the Crimson. "He's really exploring Harvard in a big way," Carroll said. "We just need to see how his test score comes back and how his grades are for the first semester.... I think his recruitment has a ways to go because he won't find out from Harvard until the end of the semester or in early January," he added. "We'll have a better idea though in about five days when his test score comes back."

Some sources have indicated that Majok's top choice is in fact the Crimson. Ranked as the No. 14 prospect in New England by New England Recruiting Report, varying internet reports have contradicted one another as to exactly how many scholarship offers have been extended to Majok. One report suggests that Majok does have a legitimate offer from Alabama, coupled with offers from Harvard and other low and mid majors.

NEHoopNews.com reports that "Harvard was fighting an uphill battle," in their recruitment of Dwight Powell, a 6'9" forward from IMG Academy in Brandenton, Florida. Powell accepted a scholarship to attend Stanford over the Crimson as soon as he heard from Stanford's admissions office.

In a nearly identical recruiting battle, Harvard is fighting with Stanford for the services of Josh Huestis, a 6'7" forward from Great Falls, Montana. ESPN provides an update on Huestis' recruitment and notes that although it appears to be a two-school race between Harvard and Stanford, Montana and Montana State (both about 2½ hours from Great Falls) are still in the mix. Although Huestis did not name a leader, he did state, "I sent my Stanford application last week; hopefully I'll hear soon."