2020 and Beyond Recruiting Targets

[Da Coach]

2020 Bradley recruit Jayson Kent was at the game tonight (MSU vs. BU 2/19/20). He is a 6'6" or 6'7" wing guard who has played the 1, 2, and 3 positions this season at Oak Forest HS, a south suburb of Chicago. He has really emerged over last summer and this season in high school as a good shooter with good ball-handling skills. He has lead his team at Oak Forest HS to a surprising 25-1 record this season, and they have climbed to #5 in the nost recent Class 3A poll-
https://www.bnd.com/sports/high-scho...240442741.html

Nice mention of Bradley recruit Jayson Kent of Oak Forest HS by Joe Henricksen of the Chicago Sun Times..

https://twitter.com/joehoopsreport/status/1231331549603344384

Oak Forest is 25-1 and is ranked in the top 10 in Class 3A. They are playing the #1 ranked team in 4A right now, Chicago Curie HS. Oak Forest trails 36-32 at halftime. Jayson Kent has 12 first half points to lead Oak Forest.

https://www.maxpreps.com/games/2-22-2020/basketball-winter-19-20/curie-vs-oak-forest.htm?c=VOmiGzN8I0aq0v8CDX4nVg#tab=scoretrkr&schoolid=5271dbb1-b47b-49a8-b787-a3c6a4c93c69

[Da Coach]

One of Bradley's top targets for their final 2020 scholarship is guard Latrell Wrightsell, Jr., a senior at Omaha Central HS, who we have have reported on here since October, 2018 . He and his family have already visited Bradley. He has reportedly grown to 6'3" now, and he is putting up big numbers so far this season.
https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sp...adley-saturday

This past week he was named the High School Player of the Week by an Omaha TV station after leading his Omaha Central team to 3 wins and the championship of a local tournament-
https://www.wowt.com/content/sports/...566155751.html

Then he followed those performances with a 24 point game last night to lead his team to a big win over Lincoln HS. They are now 5-0-
https://journalstar.com/sports/high-...11b8dc85d.html

He is among the top returning 3-point shooters in the state of Nebraska from last season-
https://www.maxpreps.com/news/D9p_Gz...p-shooters.htm

Bradley has now extended a scholarship offer to Latrell Wrightsell, Jr.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/latrell-wrightsell-jr

[Tommy]

If yesterday's game wasn't as good of a selling point for coming to BU, I don't know what is. That crowd was electric when we won it in the end.

[Da Coach]

Another 2020 recruit-
2020 Jayson Kent- 6'6" shooting guard from Oak Forest HS in Oak Forest, IL.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/jayson-kent

Videos-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UA5Xd8HyVo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ialFomPRh5M

Bradley also following his sophomore teammate 2022 Robbie Avila, a 6'6" wing (see below).

2020 Bradley recruit Jayson Kent was at the game tonight (MSU vs. BU 2/19/20). He is a 6'6" or 6'7" wing guard who has played the 1, 2, and 3 positions this season at Oak Forest HS, a south suburb of Chicago. He has really emerged over last summer and this season in high school as a good shooter with good ball-handling skills. He has lead his team at Oak Forest HS to a surprising 25-1 record this season, and they have climbed to #5 in the nost recent Class 3A poll-

https://www.bnd.com/sports/high-school/prep-basketball/article240442741.html

[KMart]

I agree that the top 2 priorities are probably point guard, and wing. But there could end up being more than 2 open scholarships. Recall that there have been scholarship players leave every year under Coach Wardle who still had eligibility remaining. And some of them were not expected.
Here are the early departures-
2016- Joel Okafor, Scottie James, Davante Cooper, Mike Shaw (retired from basketball)
2017- Ronnie Suggs, Jerome Merritt, Alex Foster
2018- Jojo McGlaston, Ryan Stipanovich, Callum Barker
2019- Antoine Pittman, Jayden Hodgson, Armon Brummett, Chudier Bile (left before enrolled for fall semester)
2020- Stephan Gabriel, JaMir Price (left before enrolled for fall semester), ?more

Thus my "currently" addition to that sentence . I would surely love if everyone came back next year. I guess time will tell...

[KillerB]

I also have been thinking PG and an athletic wing. I'm not as concerned about 3 point shooting as getting to the rim and defending other athletic players.

[Da Coach]

I agree that the top 2 priorities are probably point guard, and wing. But there could end up being more than 2 open scholarships. Recall that there have been scholarship players leave every year under Coach Wardle who still had eligibility remaining. And some of them were not expected.
Here are the early departures-
2016- Joel Okafor, Scottie James, Davante Cooper, Mike Shaw (retired from basketball)
2017- Ronnie Suggs, Jerome Merritt, Alex Foster
2018- Jojo McGlaston, Ryan Stipanovich, Callum Barker
2019- Antoine Pittman, Jayden Hodgson, Armon Brummett, Chudier Bile (left before enrolled for fall semester)
2020- Stephan Gabriel, JaMir Price (left before enrolled for fall semester), ?more

[houstonbrave]

I agree those seem to be our greatest needs. i would say one of the things we currently lack is speed/quickness. Other than Kingsby I don’t think of any of our players as particularly fast/quick and that is a big limitation.

I would add the caveat that I don’t know enough about Mcadoo and Nolan’s game and that might impact things.

[KMart]

With currently 2 open scholarships for next season, what positions do you feel Bradley will be looking to fill? From my perspective, I would love to see them add a point guard and an athletic wing who can is capable of shooting the 3 ball.

[Da Coach]

I think Terrell Strickland would be a good player for Bradley. He is the son of former DePaul star and 17-year NBA player Rod Strickland, and is 6'2" point guard now playing at Scotland Campus Sports in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Here is a video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E0dcxArVFo

[LongTimeFan]

Terell Strickland has received an offer from Bradley.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/terell-strickland

DC mentioned him earlier.

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sports-forums/basketball-fan-talk/485875-2020-and-beyond-recruiting-targets?p=490639#post490639

[egib52]

2020 Manual Rams Guard Pee Wee Brown had an unofficial to Bradley yesterday:

https://twitter.com/MLBLarry/status/1227800733380005888

[Da Coach]

Another impressive British recruit that our coaches have interest in-

2021 Cameron Hildreth- 6'4" point/SG guard who is playing this season for the Worthing Storm, a club team in the NBL division 1 pro league in England. He is just recently turned 17 years old and is playing with pro players in their 20's and 30's, and is starting to get noticed.
https://basketball.eurobasket.com/te...g-Thunder/3499
https://basketball.eurobasket.com/te...er/3499?Page=1

He is averaging 18.9 ppg, 3.3 apg, and 6 rpg, and is shooting 36% from three-
https://basketball.eurobasket.com/te...er/3499?Page=3

Nice article about him and his desire to play college ball in the US. It mentions he is also playing in a school league with his prep school Holy Trinity in Crawley, England (south of London)
https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/182...ps-dreams-usa/

Videos- some pretty impressive highlights-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyOd...ature=youtu.be

[Da Coach]

Didn't see this posted, but looks like we offered Connor Hickman:

https://twitter.com/connor1035/statu...22687503667200

I saw Connor Hickman at the game. He was there on an unofficial visit with an older man who I assumed was his father. He is a 2021 recruit, and listed in various places as a point guard, a shooting guard, or a combo guard. He is an excellent shooter, and is more recently listed as a 6'2" shooting guard.

https://www.prephoops.com/player/connor-hickman/

We mentioned Bradley's interest in Connor Hickman back on August 15, 2019-

https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sports-forums/basketball-fan-talk/485875-2020-and-beyond-recruiting-targets?p=488043#post488043

[egib52]

Didn't see this posted, but looks like we offered Connor Hickman:

https://twitter.com/connor1035/status/1226622687503667200