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Quiz regarding recruiting

Da Coach

Da Coach

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We had a thread asking fans who they would like to see recruited with the final 2009 scholarship and the consensus was a sharpshooting guard.

So while wait on a bid to a postseason tournament, and wait on recruiting news, I have been looking through some of the recruiting sites to see who is available that could fill Bradley's needs.

Below is a picture of a kid who might satisfy fans' wishes for an outstanding shooting guard, and he is uncommitted. I don't know if Bradley is recruiting him, but I think he'll end up at some Division I midmajor school.
Quiz- Can anyone identify who this is?
Post guesses here- the first to correctly identify him will get a nice prize of Bradley memorabilia.
I will add clues if nobody can identify him quickly.

player2.jpg
 
Your firewall must be blocking it. It's a photo posted on photobucket. I'll put it into my avatar, and you should see it.
 
Go ahead and post guesses here in the thread, rather than PM me, since I might not have time to answer everyone.
 
Here is the first clue, and as you would expect, it probably won't give you much more than you could have guessed--

He is a 6'2" shooting guard, and is an outstanding 3-point shooter.
 
No, it's not Nik Garcia. I hear he is holding out for higher offers.

Next clue- I'll remove the blurring of the name on his shirt. I am not sure this will help anyone--
player1.jpg
 
I was Gonna guess Zimmer from Delavan? I googled and found a article saying he is going to IWU.

Was that a player from last year?
 
I would have been amazed if anyone guess it by now. I suspect few if any posters will have hard of him before.

No, not Zimmer from Delavan.

Here is a little better clue.--
He is a much better 3-point shooter that Nik Garcia. In fact, he is one of the best 3-point shooters in the country, at 59.5% this year. He played high school ball in Illinois, and his high school team is the Panthers. He has played several games in Carver Arena.
 
Wow, jeffsu, you really know your high school teams. O'Fallon is the Panthers! But it is not Thompson.

But the last clue had a slightly hidden part- it said he "played" high school ball in Illinois. He is no longer in high school.

He had some D1 interest, but apparently no offers. He committed initially to D2, but then decided to go to juco, where he ranks as one of the top 5 in the country in 3-point percentage- 59.5%
 
Great guess. Sorry to make it so difficult.
It is a picture of Michael Malat, a 6'2" shooting guard, a soph at Southwestern Illinois College. The picture is from an old article when he was a senior playing at O'Fallon High School.
http://prepsports.stltoday.com/ssi/p...6?OpenDocument

Here was a MidstateHoops.com article from 2 years ago that called him an underrated prospect, but that "he is a solid D1 prospect"-
http://www.midstatehoops.com/article...nderrated.html

There is not much else on the internet about him, except that he apparently committed to a Division II school, but ended up going to SW Ill juco--
http://jucojunction.rivals.com/viewp...ort=2#colleges

But now he is one of the best 3-point shooting players in D1 juco, shooting almost 60% on threes.
Here are the national 3-point shooting stats among Division I junior colleges in the NJCAA--
http://njcaa.org/sports_stats.cfm?si...esttimeout=500

From what I can see, he would make a great recruit for a school looking for a solid shooting guard.

DeltaBrave03- you are the winner. PM me to let me know where to send the prize.
 
He was in the same conference as my high school, SWC. He was a pretty good all round player fairly athletic and smart off the ball defender.
 
Michael Malat was a senior on the 2007 O'Fallon team that made it to the Elite 8 in Class 4A high school playoffs at Carver Arena in 2007 where they reached the finals before losing to Chicago Simeon and Derrick Rose. Also on that team was a pretty fine player Kenny Leverette, who is now a freshman at the same juco, Southwestern Illinois College.
He transferred to O'Fallon for his senior year, prior to that he played at Belleville East.
 
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