Valley recruits

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There are also some rumors that Illini walk-on Mike LaTulip will land at ISU
If so, then is he the player to be named later for Jon Ekey

Here are LaTulip's 3-year stats

Freshman - 16 games played, 4-11, 36% overall, 3-9, 33% from 3-pt, 1.2 ppg, 0.1 rpg, 0 assists, 0 blocks, 0 steals
Sophomore - 12 games played, 3-9, 33% overall, 3-9, 33% from 3-pt, 0.9 ppg, 0.25 rpg, 0 assists, 0.2 blocks, 0.1 steals
Junior - 16 games played, 6-13, 46% overall, 4-9, 44% from 3-pt, 1.6 ppg, 0.6 rpg, 0 assists, 0 blocks, 0.06 steals
Career - 44 games played, 13-33, 39% overall, 10-27, 37% from 3-pt, Career averages: 1.3 ppg, 0.3 rpg, 0.05 assists, 0 blocks, 0.05 steals

I know the guy's a walk-on, but there are "gurus" out of Chicago claiming he's an impact player and that mid-majors would be "crazy" not to want him.....

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former MSU commit Zach Cameron Chodes has already gotten an offer from Boston College - even before playing at Brewster
plus interest from others - including Barry Hinson..
...he's been playing in an eastern pro-am league
...

Zach Cameron-Chodes - who decommitted from Missouri State now, after a year at prep school
commits to ....Kennesaw State........

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for a point guard that is 7th in the nation in scoring at 23.2 ppg you kinda have to wonder what's up - the kid had virtually zero offers either out of HS or now..

From what I understand, he was offered recently by Crews at SLU and Ford at OK State, both were fired. I also heard he had offers from SEMO and SIU.

But you are right his production doesn't match the interest. He is very small. I doubt he is as big as Dequan Miller.

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Missouri State gets a commitment from 5'10" point guard Ronnie Rousseau of State fair (MO) Community College. He averaged 23.2 ppg, 3.5 apg, and shot 41.7% from three.

for a point guard that is 7th in the nation in scoring at 23.2 ppg you kinda have to wonder what's up - the kid had virtually zero offers either out of HS or now..

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Illinois State lands ...

another verbal forthcoming?

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Missouri State gets a commitment from 5'10" point guard Ronnie Rousseau of State fair (MO) Community College. He averaged 23.2 ppg, 3.5 apg, and shot 41.7% from three.

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Illinois State lands 2016 6'4 Isaac Gassman as a walk on
He is a slender shooting guard from Ottawa HS who previously had only DII offers

http://www.mywebtimes.com/sports/huge-july-is-here-for-ottawa-s-gassman/article_a4d2ccf5-0fb9-531e-8509-46c473c0a277.html

http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/isaac-gassman

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updated with Loyola's new guy

2016 G 6'3 Jake Baughman committed to Loyola as a preferred walk on



The players now marked in BLACK are signed...in RED won't be able to sign 'til spring
20165.3 rpg, 1.2 apg
BRADLEY - KOCH BAR, NATE KENNELL, JAYDEN HODGSON, DARRELL BROWN, JR. (2 scholarship left for 2016 - Okafor, Cooper, James departed)
Drake - De'Antae McMurray - (1 scholarship left for 2016 - Abrahamson departed)
Evansville - Ryan Taylor (transfer from Ohio, will be eligible in 2016), Dru Smith (2 scholarships left for 2016)
Illinois State - Andre Washington, Madison Williams (3 scholarships left for 2016 - Griffin, Harvey departed)
Indiana State - Jordan Barnes, Donovan Franklin, Demonte Ojinnaka (zero scholarships left for 2016 - possibly even overcommitted by one)
Loyola - Cameron Satterwhite, and Croatian Bruno Skokna, walk-on Jake Baughman (green cuz he verballed on St. Pat's) (2 scholarships left for 2016)
Missouri State - Alize Johnson (LINK), Jarrid Rhodes, Greg Williams (zero scholarships left for 2016)
UNI - Juwan McCloud, Tanner Lohaus, Isaiah Brown (zero scholarship left for 2016 or possibly one depending on who might be walkon)
SIU - Brendon Gooch, Aaron Cook, Jeremy Roscoe (one scholarships left for 2016 - Jeremy Postell departed)
Wichita State - Peyton Allen (transfer from Texas A&M, will be eligible in 2016), CJ Keyser, Daishon Smith, Darrlyn Willis, Austin Reaves (0-3 scholarships left for 2016 depending on which w/o stay w/o)

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Indiana State just got a verbal from a 6-5 juco shooting guard
Demonte Ojinnaka from Cloud County Community College.
Averages 11.2 ppg, 34.5% from 3-pt,


The players now marked in BLACK are signed...in RED won't be able to sign 'til spring
20165.3 rpg, 1.2 apg
BRADLEY - KOCH BAR, NATE KENNELL, JAYDEN HODGSON, DARRELL BROWN, JR. (2 scholarship left for 2016 - Okafor, Cooper, James departed)
Drake - De'Antae McMurray - (1 scholarship left for 2016 - Abrahamson departed)
Evansville - Ryan Taylor (transfer from Ohio, will be eligible in 2016), Dru Smith (2 scholarships left for 2016)
Illinois State - Andre Washington, Madison Williams (3 scholarships left for 2016 - Griffin, Harvey departed)
Indiana State - Jordan Barnes, Donovan Franklin, Demonte Ojinnaka (zero scholarships left for 2016 - possibly even overcommitted by one)
Loyola - Cameron Satterwhite, and Croatian Bruno Skokna (2 scholarships left for 2016)
Missouri State - Alize Johnson (LINK), Jarrid Rhodes, Greg Williams (zero scholarships left for 2016)
UNI - Juwan McCloud, Tanner Lohaus, Isaiah Brown (zero scholarship left for 2016 or possibly one depending on who might be walkon)
SIU - Brendon Gooch, Aaron Cook, Jeremy Roscoe (one scholarships left for 2016 - Jeremy Postell departed)
Wichita State - Peyton Allen (transfer from Texas A&M, will be eligible in 2016), CJ Keyser, Daishon Smith, Darrlyn Willis, Austin Reaves (0-3 scholarships left for 2016 depending on which w/o stay w/o)

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Updated and trying to catch up on the proper number of open scholarships for 2016 due to recent player departures...


The players now marked in BLACK are signed...in RED won't be able to sign 'til spring
2016
BRADLEY - KOCH BAR, NATE KENNELL, JAYDEN HODGSON, DARRELL BROWN, JR. (2 scholarship left for 2016 - Okafor, Cooper, James departed)
Drake - De'Antae McMurray - (1 scholarship left for 2016 - Abrahamson departed)
Evansville - Ryan Taylor (transfer from Ohio, will be eligible in 2016), Dru Smith (2 scholarships left for 2016)
Illinois State - Andre Washington, Madison Williams (3 scholarships left for 2016 - Griffin, Harvey departed)
Indiana State - Jordan Barnes, Donovan Franklin zero scholarships left for 2016)
Loyola - Cameron Satterwhite, and Croatian Bruno Skokna (2 scholarships left for 2016)
Missouri State - Alize Johnson (LINK), Jarrid Rhodes, Greg Williams (zero scholarships left for 2016)
UNI - Juwan McCloud, Tanner Lohaus, Isaiah Brown (zero scholarship left for 2016 or possibly one depending on who might be walkon)
SIU - Brendon Gooch, Aaron Cook, Jeremy Roscoe (one scholarships left for 2016 - Jeremy Postell departed)
Wichita State - Peyton Allen (transfer from Texas A&M, will be eligible in 2016), CJ Keyser, Daishon Smith, Darrlyn Willis, Austin Reaves (0-3 scholarships left for 2016 depending on which w/o stay w/o)

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SIU - Brendon Gooch...

Brendon Gooch played on Belleville Althoff who were widely favored to be the favorites to make a deep run to State if not win the State Title...

Just thought I'd post how they are doing...
pretty darned good...
they are 25-2, they won both their Regional games (by 25 pts), then they won their Sectional semifinal Tuesday by a huge blowout score of 101-63. They play Centralia tomorrow night for Sectional Championship. If they win they advance to Supersectional against the winner of Springfield Southeast vs. Springfield Lanphier.
They are also ranked #1 in Illinois in 3A and ranked #25 in the NATIONAL Top 25 by MaxPreps.
Jordan Goodwin & Tarkus Ferguson grab most of the headlines, but all five starters average 10 ppg or more.

Also - here's one more little factoid tidbit that I coulda really stumped everyone with...
The Althoff head coach is Greg Lieb....when he was in college at SIU-E, one of his teammates was the father of his current star player Jordan Goodwin...
BUT - one of his other teammates at SIU-E was......ANTHONY WEBSTER after Webster had gotten disgruntled and left Bradley!

Yet one more tidbit - Althoff coach Greg Leib's older brother Phil Leib played at NIU for Jim Molinari then became and assistant there under Mo and even served for a year under Jim Molinari at Bradley!!!

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=108417&highlight=phil+leib#post108417

One of SIU's other signees, point guard Aaron Cook, suffered a dislocated shoulder a month ago and has missed significant time -
"The Southern Illinois signee's status going forward is uncertain."

They actually tried to bring Cook back a couple games ago but he reinjured himself and is now out again...
"Cook.... did return for the final three regular season contests before missing Thursday’s game."

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/high-school/boys-basketball/hot-shooting-hotz-gives-ladue-a-dynamic-duo/article_3e077050-ced5-11e5-ae70-b32e071361ff.html

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/high-school/boys-basketball/u-city-knocks-off-top-seed-westminster-faces-parkway-west/article_26e1c45c-e1c7-11e5-a7c9-6f6100c64f5c.html

One more thing - Indiana State just landed a verbal...
Class of 2016 Donovan Franklin from Gulf Coast State
Juco shooting guard - 14.9 ppg, 36.4% from the arc, 4.3 rpg

http://njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2015-16/div1/players/donovanfranklini8f6

Updated


The players now marked in BLACK are signed...in RED won't be able to sign 'til spring
2016
BRADLEY - KOCH BAR, NATE KENNELL, JAYDEN HODGSON, DARRELL BROWN, JR. (0 scholarship left for 2016 - possibly we are 1-over)
Drake - De'Antae McMurray - (zero scholarships left for 2016)
Evansville - Ryan Taylor (transfer from Ohio, will be eligible in 2016), Dru Smith (2 scholarships left for 2016)
Illinois State - Andre Washington, Madison Williams (1 scholarship left for 2016)
Indiana State - Jordan Barnes, Donovan Franklin zero scholarships left for 2016)
Loyola - Cameron Satterwhite, and Croatian Bruno Skokna (2 scholarships left for 2016)
Missouri State - Alize Johnson (LINK), Jarrid Rhodes, Greg Williams (zero scholarships left for 2016)
UNI - Juwan McCloud, Tanner Lohaus, Isaiah Brown (zero scholarship left for 2016)
SIU - Brendon Gooch, Aaron Cook, Jeremy Roscoe (zero scholarships left for 2016)
Wichita State - Peyton Allen (transfer from Texas A&M, will be eligible in 2016), CJ Keyser, Daishon Smith, Darrlyn Willis, Austin Reaves (zero scholarships left for 2016 maybe 3 if the current walk-ons stay walk-ons)

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not much action on the recruit board...nothing new since late November...
except that Nick Robinson is dropped as a Sycamore recruit...
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In a new interview Nick Robinson says he reneged on his Indiana State commitment because "he felt like he rushed it" - which is double-speak for "after I committed other schools began calling and I listened to some advisors & got convinced I might be able to do better.."

then he is asked what schools are now after him and the only one he can name that has offered is St. Joseph's but he also names a few Big Ten schools, Pac-12 then Missouri State, Stetson, & Valpo...and tries hard to see if he can recall any other schools that have even called or contacted recently...but he does not mention Bradley at all...

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updated with the newest Bradley commit...


The players now marked in BLACK are signed...in RED won't be able to sign 'til spring
2016
BRADLEY - KOCH BAR, NATE KENNELL, JAYDEN HODGSON, DARRELL BROWN, JR. (0 scholarship left for 2016 - possibly we are 1-over)
Drake - De'Antae McMurray - (zero scholarships left for 2016)
Evansville - Ryan Taylor (transfer from Ohio, will be eligible in 2016), Dru Smith (2 scholarships left for 2016)
Illinois State - Andre Washington, Madison Williams (1 scholarship left for 2016)
Indiana State - Jordan Barnes (one scholarship left for 2016)
Loyola - Cameron Satterwhite, and Croatian Bruno Skokna (2 scholarships left for 2016)
Missouri State - Alize Johnson (LINK), Jarrid Rhodes, Greg Williams (zero scholarships left for 2016)
UNI - Juwan McCloud, Tanner Lohaus, Isaiah Brown (zero scholarship left for 2016)
SIU - Brendon Gooch, Aaron Cook, Jeremy Roscoe (zero scholarships left for 2016)
Wichita State - Peyton Allen (transfer from Texas A&M, will be eligible in 2016), CJ Keyser, Daishon Smith, Darrlyn Willis, Austin Reaves (zero scholarships left for 2016 maybe 3 if the current walk-ons stay walk-ons)

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De'Antae McMurray put up 47 pts, 8 rebs, 4 asst, 4 stl tonight vs. John A. Logan College!!!

McMurray wins the juco Player of the Weeks award

http://www.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2015-16/releases/-2-3-16-_Players_of_the_Week

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Drake gets a new commit for next fall - 2016...
Southwestern Illinois College's De'Antae McMurray - a 6-1 PG from Alton averaging 9.7 ppg, 4.8 apg - verbals to Ray Giacoletti & the Bulldogs
.....

De'Antae McMurray put up 47 pts, 8 rebs, 4 asst, 4 stl tonight vs. John A. Logan College!!!