2019 & Beyond Recruiting Targets

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Ryland Holt commits to Minnesota State
...he reportedly did have at least three DI offers - LINK LINK LINK

Division II kids can sign their Letter of Intent any time up until August 1, 2019 - and Ryland is planning on signing tomorrow.
..Former ISU & Illini assistant Paris Parham's son just transferred to Minnesota State and former UNI guard Juwan McCloud is there, too as is a Delavan kid Karsen Arrenholz.
Their head coach Matt Margenthaler has strong recruiting connections in Illinois.


one other local kid that Bradley had looked at - LUKE YODER - and who had visited Bradley more than once
...just verbaled to Illinois Wesleyan (DIII) even tho he reportedly had a DI offer from EIU
https://www.pantagraph.com/sports/hi...6001f5616.html

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2019 Bradley recruit Dawand Jones has just announced that he will play football in college and has narrowed his choices to
Ohio State, Penn State, Florida, Indiana, and USC (Southern Cal) - so he is now off the board

Dawand Jones to Ohio State

[egib52]

T have you heard anything about Bradley watching Washington freshman Gus Lucas? I have seen him play since 7th grade and he is a talent. I have heard baseball is his best sport, but I watched him lead a young Washington squad last night against Limestone. 6'5 forward with decent handles for a Freshman, and a great shot.

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I have not heard anything

[Da Coach]

Maybe Bradley should start recruiting this kid, since we have recruiting connections in Indiana. Luke Brown is just a sophomore at Blackford HS (enrollment 550) in Hartford City, Indiana, a small town in east-central Indiana, near Muncie. Prior to his freshman season, Blackford HS had lost 61 straight games. As a freshman, he averaged 27.8 ppg and lead his team to a 14-9 record. This season, he leads the state with an average of 35.8 ppg and his team is 12-4 so far. He is on pace to break Damon Bailey's Indiana high school scoring record (3,134 points). In a recent game he scored 55 points on 21 of 25 shots. He is a 6'1" point guard, but not simply a great shooter. He dribbles and passes well, and can score on drives to the basket.

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2019/02/06/blackford-phenom-luke-brown-leads-state-scoring-lifts-community-gregg-doyel-indiana-basketball/2779212002/

https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1094015519441723393

Highlight video-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p76e2V4Qq-A

Older video from Sept., 2017, prior to his freshman year-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYOpk9SYzZ0

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Michael Moreno (2019) still considering Bradley- 4.0 GPA and ACT 28 !!
https://twitter.com/michaelmoreno30/...99728632623106

[Da Coach]

Michael Moreno (2019) still considering Bradley- 4.0 GPA and ACT 28 !!
https://twitter.com/michaelmoreno30/...99728632623106

Bradley is still involved with a few other very good 2020 kids- point guard Nijel Pack of Indianapolis Lawrence North HS, guard Anthony Leal of Bloomington South HS (Indiana), and a kid we first started following in the summer of 2017 in high school in Kentucky, Jayden Scrubb, now a freshman at John A. Logan Community College in Southern Illinois.

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...
.. 2023 kid Ethan Kizer (Hollis Twp- now moved to Metamora) -
http://ny2lasports.com/article_one.aspx?articleid=4158 -
https://twitter.com/IL_IrishMBB/stat...65880980148224 -
https://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=27660

Ethan Kizer is currently playing for his Peoria Hollis 8th grade team and has carried them all the way to the Championship game of the IESA State Finals (previous report said the family will move to Metamora and Ethan will then likely play there when in high school)
In the semifinal game, Hollis beat Springfield Little Flower 51-42 with Kiser scoring 30 pts - https://iesa.org/activities/bbk/scor...-1A&Position=4
That State Championship game is Thursday at 7:30pm - vs. Ashland A-C Central, who also have a kid that scored 30 pts in the semi..
The Championship is held at Macon Meridian HS (10 miles south of Decatur)

As you can see - Ethan is far more physically developed than any other 8th grader - so time will tell if he's able to compete against high schoolers to the same degree - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_UWQg0Gl2I

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...Dischon Thomas has already de-committed from Nevada -....Both Dischon & Dorell are the sons of Hillcrest head coach Howard Thomas with whom our staff obviously has a very great relationship
Could we possibly see an offer to those guys soon??

Bradley had been watching Dischon Thomas while Gabriel was at Hillcrest - but today he verballed to Colorado State

Ethan Kizer is currently playing for his Peoria Hollis 8th grade team....Championship is held at Macon Meridian HS ...

Ethan Kizer & Peoria Hollis lost the Championship game and they take home the 2nd place trophy
A-C Central had some pretty big kids - https://www.myjournalcourier.com/spo...p-13619353.php

[LongTimeFan]

Thomas committed to Colorado State.

[Da Coach]

One more new name that Bradley has been in contact with for those keeping track.

2020 Will Berg- 6'9" skilled forward from Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa.
A year ago, he was ranked the #5 player in Iowa for the class of 2020.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/high-school/recruiting/2018/04/16/basketball-recruiting-iowa-ranking-top-2020-prospects-xavier-foster-bowen-born-even-brauns/515215002/

He has a couple mid-major offers, and high-majors like Iowa,and Iowa State are following him.

Videos-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soLiM-qhJZs

http://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/will-berg/_mYhVNTHEeeT-Oz0u-e-FA/videos.htm?videoid=5edf9ad3-519e-470f-8ce3-709db994a8b8

http://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/will-berg/_mYhVNTHEeeT-Oz0u-e-FA/videos.htm?videoid=c4d2e86d-9c53-48d6-bd79-1a81e9a369ad

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Bradley has recently been to see
6-2 point guard Jaden Graves of Next Level Prep in Kansas

And Coach Wardle went to watch Danville's Tevin Smith last week and offered him
Smith is just a sophomore, Class of 2021
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2019 (1 open scholarships)

Sean Bairstow...

Bradley recruit Sean Bairstow has verballed to Utah State

Here's our list updated --- *** once again - many of the links don't work since the upgrade of the board but you can search any individual player for more info

2019 (possibly 1 or 2 open scholarships) - ** Spring signing period is April 17 - May 15

Stephan Gabriel - SIGNED - LINK - visited last fall and was impressed with staff & facilities!
Antonio "Tonio" Thomas - SIGNED - visited the weekend of 9/13-15 and loved Bradley!
Ville Tahvanainen - also SIGNED while on visit 9/29/2018 when he was impressed with Bradley
JaMir Price- SIGNED for 2019 but may do a year of prep school
Rienk Mast - COMMITTED- Dutch U18 National player, visited Bradley & got an offer - should sign in April
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Josh Wallace - OFFERED 11/28/2017 - playing well but paucity of offers makes one suspicious that he may have issues with qualifying
Xzavier Jones - OFFERED 7/23 and visited on 8/07/17! - new highlights- moving up in rankings
Michael Moreno - just visited and got OFFERED August 27, 2016
Isiaih Mosley - OFFERED on 2/09/2018- had a great season
Tyronn Mosley - prev. OFFERED, now reclassified 2019, decommitted from UW-M, now at Woodstock Acad (prep), no new offers, barely avg. double digits
AJ Bramah avg 13ppg, 7 rpg at Sheridan juco
David Carter
Anthony Fairlee - Bradley scouting him March 14, 2018
David Sloan - Bradley was recruiting him out of prep school in FL, but now he's at John A. Logan juco, leads all levels of college ball with over 10 assists/gm
Jaden Graves
Myles Baker, Luther Taylor, Cyrus Alexander, Karl Wright (just one offer - UIS), Michael Peake,
Jakobie Robinson, Kejuan Clements, Malcolm Whitlow, Jermaine Hamlin, Demarius Boyd, Cortez Mosley (Richwoods), Chris Arcidiacono (avg 24ppg),
Steve Wooten, Jr. (Mineral Area juco), Tajzmel Sherman (leads NJCAA-30ppg), Jan Palokaj (Croatia), Spencer Jones, Jaden Shackleford,
Kareem Queeley, Nathan Johnson, Quinn Cafferty, Rashaun Agee, Ahmad Louis



2020 (will lose 4 more seniors so will have three more open scholarships for 2020)
Most of the 2020 recruits won't commit until after the summer AAU and on into their senior season in the fall)

Nijel Pack - OFFERED on Jan. 21, 2109
Desmond Polk - OFFERED probably already blowing up past the midmajor level
Mabor Majak - Hamilton Southeast near Indianapolis - OFFERED - LINK
Darius Hannah - OFFERED
Anthony Leal - OFFERED on July 10,2018
Mason Madsen - OFFERED 7/25/2018
Gabe Madsen - OFFERED 7/25/2018
Latrell Wrightsell - has already visited Bradley - putting up great numbers
Will Berg
Sincere Parker
Carter Gilmore
Emmanuel Umoffia - signed with Missouri-West Plains juco, now at Mid South Prep as noted above - holds Bradley OFFER
Devon House - discussed Bradley visit
Seryee Lewis
Ethan Kilgore - from KC area
Dayten Holman
Isaiah Rivera -
Martice Mitchell (just offered by ISU),
Dante Maddox, Jr. (son of Bloom HS head coach)
Rashad McDaniels - recently visited Bradley - LINK
Caleb Love, Mike Saunders, Jr., Demarius Splunge, Katrell Raimey, Caleb Lohner, Quevian Adger, Isaiah Burrell, Jalen Johnson, Kaleim Taylor, Terrance Thompson, Jordan Davis, Jonathan Davis, Jadin Booth, Reggie Morris, PJ Edwards, Anthony Washington, Jeron Artest, Kayne Henry, Noel Coleman, Ray'Sean Taylor


2021 (lots depends on if we have built up with jucos or 4-year guys but Childs will be a senior and thus at least 1 more will open up in 2021)
Dimitrios Stragalinos - OFFERED 9/28/2018
Tevin Smith - OFFERED 2/16/19
Isaiah Donnell - LINK
Michael Foster - OFFERED on 11/11/2017 - BRADLEY had previously OFFERED, then he verbaled to Arizona State but now he has reopened recruitment
Max Christie - now rising into the 5-Star level - Working LINK
Nate Santos - reclassified from 2020
Chucky Hepburn, David Joplin, Ben Nau, Hunter Sallis, Taj Manning, Zane Meeks, Tyreese Hunter

..mentions of a 2023 kid Ethan Kizer (Hollis Twp- now moved to Metamora) -
http://ny2lasports.com/article_one.aspx?articleid=4158 -
https://twitter.com/IL_IrishMBB/stat...65880980148224 -

https://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=27660

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if we have any open scholarships for class of 2026, we oughta offer this kid - https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/s...09369534214144

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BU recruit Michael Moreno just misses winning the Kentucky Mr. Basketball title...
but there is a little controversy....and more than a few angry comments via Twitter.
Moreno was one of the runner-ups to Dontaie Allen - a kid who is committed to University of Kentucky -
but Dontaie Allen played in only 13 games and never played a single minute beyond December 22

Candidates are nominated by coaches & media, then the top 18 candidates are voted on by each high school coach, approved media member plus each former winner also gets a vote.
..but Allen got enough votes from those who submitted ballots to win despite Moreno, (Louisville signee) David Johnson and (Xavier signee) Kyky Tandy being the favorites going into the process.

The criteria is stated as:
"All that’s asked of media, coaches and former winners who vote
is to pick the players they feel deserves Mr. and Miss Basketball
based on whatever criteria they wish to consider."

Since a lot of the voters either went to or grew up fans of UK or U of L,
then it is obvious some kid who may have signed there get an advantage.

some of the rips were from fans but some came from the voting media
https://twitter.com/TheAdamBWells/st...11571025346560
https://twitter.com/WKUconnect/statu...80198714310656

https://twitter.com/DDearner/status/1103291433014960134