2019/20 UConn Recruiting

[Sluconn Husky]

If anyone has a subscription to Prospects Nation they just put up an article on Jones' home visits:

 

[HuskyFan1125]

If anyone has a subscription to Prospects Nation they just put up an article on Jones' home visits:

I will be interested to see where her top 5 are?? Does she stay on the west coast or does she come to the east coast? Maybe a mix of both?

 

[HopJim]

ONO would made a tremendous 1 or IA & Boston would make a tremendous 1A or 1B IMO. Unlike Ezi, ONO & Boston will likely be around for 4 years.

Amen

 

[JoePgh]

So I have a minor fact to report, and then a question to ask:

At the Albany game today, while walking the corridor, I walked past a very athletic -looking young black woman whom I would guess to be 17 or 18 years old and 5-11 to 6 feet tall. She was wearing a UConn sweatshirt.

Does that description fit any known recruiting target? Does it make sense that any recruiting target would be at the game in Albany today?

 

[bags27]

Back in 1999 when our men's team won their first national title, the average SAT score for the Stanford men's basketball was 1300, the average SAT score for Duke was 860 and I don't know how many Dookies eventually graduated but I would venture not many. Yes, I'm speaking from personal experience.

Whether SAT scores correlate to anything beyond freshman grades is a very debated subject right now. And I doubt if they have any predictive significance at all when you factor in the academic support systems in place at top D-1 schools. After all, do you think the Alabama football team has higher SAT scores than Duke’s basketball team, and Alabama manages to graduate most of their players. And , please, no arguments about the academic rigors of elite schools. I’ve taught at two of them. There are plenty of easy courses available everywhere. After all, children of rich alumni need to graduate, too.

 

[victor64]

So I have a minor fact to report, and then a question to ask:

At the Albany game today, while walking the corridor, I walked past a very athletic -looking young black woman whom I would guess to be 17 or 18 years old and 5-11 to 6 feet tall. She was wearing a UConn sweatshirt.

Does that description fit any known recruiting target? Does it make sense that any recruiting target would be at the game in Albany today?

How far is Albany from Ossining? Don't they have a player that UConn has interest in? Lot of the prospects they are looking at are at the 3 on 3 tourney.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Sniezek was a sharp student who graduated from one of the finest, elite private schools in DC. She was actively recruited by Harvard ergo she had the academic quals for Stanford.

Marta is not someone we were questioning, as far as I know. I followed her career in D.C.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Back in 1999 when our men's team won their first national title, the average SAT score for the Stanford men's basketball was 1300, the average SAT score for Duke was 860 and I don't know how many Dookies eventually graduated but I would venture not many. Yes, I'm speaking from personal experience.

That's pretty close to what I've been led to believe.

 

[MilfordHusky]

So I have a minor fact to report, and then a question to ask:

At the Albany game today, while walking the corridor, I walked past a very athletic -looking young black woman whom I would guess to be 17 or 18 years old and 5-11 to 6 feet tall. She was wearing a UConn sweatshirt.

Does that description fit any known recruiting target? Does it make sense that any recruiting target would be at the game in Albany today?

Could be Aubrey Griffin from Ossining.

I saw someone who looked like Amari Deberry to me. She was walking up the steps toward the concourse. But when we were on the same level, she looked about 6'0" or slightly taller, not 6'5".

 

[WLT1717]

Marta is not someone we were questioning, as far as I know. I followed her career in D.C.

No prob. I was addressing the question mark in Charliebball's post

 

[hjoerring]

Whether SAT scores correlate to anything beyond freshman grades is a very debated subject right now. And I doubt if they have any predictive significance at all when you factor in the academic support systems in place at top D-1 schools. After all, do you think the Alabama football team has higher SAT scores than Duke’s basketball team, and Alabama manages to graduate most of their players. And , please, no arguments about the academic rigors of elite schools. I’ve taught at two of them. There are plenty of easy courses available everywhere. After all, children of rich alumni need to graduate, too.

Thank you for pointing this out. This is a folly of the university as a business. I have on more than one ocassion said that no student at any univ is capable of taking advantage of everything that univ can offer. An under(graduate) student at the Univ of UC-Hayard can leave that univ as a coming world-class engineer as one coming out of MIT/Uconn. Of course there are factors in place not to make that happen a lot.
I had a chance to listen to the Duke coach pre- and postgame interviews and laughed at how many times she mentioned the 3 graduate students on her team- and they studying in a top 10 Business Sch. That is how the elite schools sell and recruit students. A complete spin-- shameless. The logic: her players have to contend with far more than basketball. All the others have only one thing to do. The shameless truth-- college athletes have different admission criteria than others; but, the athletic dept must convince the Registrar that they have a structure in place to matriculate the student.

 

[UConnCat]

I agree, she's a good shooter and passer, but also an outstanding rebounder, sounds like a stretch four to me, similar game to Lauren Jackson if you ask me.

If her game were similar to Lauren Jackson's then we wouldn't be reading about . . . oh never mind.

 

[UConnCat]

Isn’t the simplest explanation that Samantha’s interest in UConn has cooled to the point that Geno no longer thinks that she is likely to sign, so the UConn coaches have turned their attention elsewhere?

Too simple, so it seems.

 

[Mdoggie]

Brunelle will be at Uconn. Bank on it! Decision already made. Uconn recruits and coaches are always tight lipped about these matters. No Uconn home visit or game visits needed.

 

[TitleTown]

Brunelle will be at Uconn. Bank on it! Decision already made. Uconn recruits and coaches are always tight lipped about these matters. No Uconn home visit or game visits needed.

Brunelle will be at UConn, but wearing a Notre Dame jersey.

 

[FlyRyGuy]

Brunelle will be at Uconn. Bank on it! Decision already made. Uconn recruits and coaches are always tight lipped about these matters. No Uconn home visit or game visits needed.

Is that a guess? Or do you know for sure?

 

[Mdoggie]

Is that a guess? Or do you know for sure?

About as sure as I was that Elena was going to win 4 championships at Uconn

 

[nwhoopfan]

If her game were similar to Lauren Jackson's then we wouldn't be reading about . . . oh never mind.

LJ was one of the all time greats. I'll take it with a gigantic grain of salt if someone wants to try to compare a current high school player to her (I realize it was a previous poster, not you, doing this). LJ had 3 point range but she was darn good in the paint too. She was tough as nails and really battled in the lane (ask Lisa Leslie about that). Stretch 4 really is not a good description of LJ.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

 

[HoopsFan21]

Brunelle will be at UConn, but wearing a Notre Dame jersey.

Actually she'll never be at UConn. I expect her at the XL Center every other early December though.

 

[CocoHusky]

How did Leilani play in the 3 X 3 tournament? I believe this was her first exposure to USA basketball.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

How did Leilani play in the 3 X 3 tournament? I believe this was her first exposure to USA basketball.

I didn't get to see her and there were really no reports on players so I don't know. Her team had some success though.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Jim Fuller:


A team made up of UConn recruiting targets won the USA Basketball Women’s 3x3 U18 National Championship in Colorado Springs.


Hailey Van Lith from Wenatchee, Wash., was named the tournament MVP to help Team Quest to a 7-0 record. She was joined by fellow 2020 prospect Paige Bueckers of Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, Minn., and class of 2019 recruits Aliyah Boston, who plays at Worcester Academy and Samantha Brunelle, out of Monroe High School in Fredericksburg, Va.

 

[CTisballers]

If we cooled down on Brunelle it’s because Ezi is coming to Storrs. It don’t matter who comes to UConn as long as we have Geno that’s all I care about.

 

[CamrnCrz1974]

If we cooled down on Brunelle it’s because Ezi is coming to Storrs. It don’t matter who comes to UConn as long as we have Geno that’s all I care about.

Not sure that this is entirely true.

Ezi Magbegor is a long and agile faceup-4 (power forward). Sam Brunelle is a versatile perimeter threat, but primarily a 3 (small forward) in college. They do not play the same position, and UConn is not in a scholarship crunch.

Now, perhaps Brunelle is concerned about her role on the team, with the talent of Williams, Walker, Nelson-Ododa, and Magbegor (with a senior Dangerfield at the point). Certainly a possibility. But a commitment from Ezi does not necessarily correlate to a "cooling down" on Brunelle (assuming that UConn has, in fact, "cooled down" on Brunelle).

 

[BobbyJ]

Not sure that this is entirely true.

Ezi Magbegor is a long and agile faceup-4 (power forward). Sam Brunelle is a versatile perimeter threat, but primarily a 3 (small forward) in college. They do not play the same position, and UConn is not in a scholarship crunch.

Now, perhaps Brunelle is concerned about her role on the team, with the talent of Williams, Walker, Nelson-Ododa, and Magbegor (with a senior Dangerfield at the point). Certainly a possibility. But a commitment from Ezi does not necessarily correlate to a "cooling down" on Brunelle (assuming that UConn has, in fact, "cooled down" on Brunelle).

"Concerned about her role on the team" makes some sense to me. If she is, it puts her in a difficult position to get any clarity because as we know, that's something that Auriemma supposedly will not discuss with recruits. Could be a stalemate situation.

 

[Paesano]

Geno and Chris don't drop balls when it comes to recruiting.

Sure they do. But not because they fumbled it. They drop them intentionally.

 

[kat0189]

"ONE of the world basketball’s best and most talked-about rising stars is staying in Australia.

Teenager Ezi Magbegor – who has been described by Australian Opals coach Sandy Brondello as “future of the Opals” – has signed with WNBL club Melbourne Boomers for three years.

Magbegor – last season’s WNBL rookie of the year with Canberra - was strongly tipped to move to the US to play college basketball, having visited a number of top line schools over the past few months.

But Magbegor said the chance to be mentored by Australian basketball legend and Boomers assistant general manager Lauren Jackson swayed her decision."

Link: Category: | Herald Sun

 

[JustinesGuy]

"ONE of the world basketball’s best and most talked-about rising stars is staying in Australia.

Teenager Ezi Magbegor – who has been described by Australian Opals coach Sandy Brondello as “future of the Opals” – has signed with WNBL club Melbourne Boomers for three years.

Magbegor – last season’s WNBL rookie of the year with Canberra - was strongly tipped to move to the US to play college basketball, having visited a number of top line schools over the past few months.

But Magbegor said the chance to be mentored by Australian basketball legend and Boomers assistant general manager Lauren Jackson swayed her decision."

Link: Category: | Herald Sun

Sorry @CocoHusky

 

[HoopsFan21]

Not everyone wants to be coached and trained by one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time, I guess. If it were my profession I'd bend over backwards to make that happen, but then again I'll never be a pro baller since I keep going undrafted year after year.