Malachi Richardson announcing on Friday

[tcf15]

Alex Kline‏@TheRecruitScoop
2015 Trenton Catholic (NJ) SG Malachi Richardson will announce his college decision on Friday.

 

[tcf15]

Confirmed by him:

Malachi Richardson‏@TheLifeOfMali23
I will be making my college decision Friday at 230 at trenton catholic ..

 

[Rico444]

We have a shot here?

 

[upstater]

Wow... That's good news for Syracuse, I suspect. He's trying to get out in front of it.

 

[Zionn]

Cuse

 

[Sportsman5]

We have a shot here?

Yes. it appears he has visited his top schools and we are one of those schools.

 

[OkaForPrez]

Yes. it appears he has visited his top schools and we are one of those schools.

If we had any shot, Zionn just killed it.

 

[upstater]

UConn has Hamilton and Calhoun playing Richardson's position, with Ali already committed. Will be a tough get.

 

[aceboon]

he just visited Cuse last week and is now announcing this week, Cuse it is.

 

[HooperScooper]

Cuse.

 

[caw]

He visited Cuse for the Cuse, IU game. One of those are likely. UConn probably third here.

 

[champs99and04]

This could be purely coincidental, but when is the last time a kid has "announced" for UConn? I honestly cannot recall an instance of one of our players setting an announcement date and picking UConn. I'm sure it's happened, but I'm drawing a blank.

 

[Burt]

Did Harkless announce?

 

[HuskyBballFan]

This could be purely coincidental, but when is the last time a kid has "announced" for UConn? I honestly cannot recall an instance of one of our players setting an announcement date and picking UConn. I'm sure it's happened, but I'm drawing a blank.

It's been awhile for sure. Certainly nobody on the current roster. Not any of our commitments for 2014 or 2015. Not even the guys who left the program in recent years - Roscoe, Drummond, Lamb, Oriakhi, Jamal Coombs-McDaniel, Bradley, Wolf.

It's actually kind of amazing that we've gotten as many good players as we have lately without a single one doing the pre-planned announcement thing.

 

[Scot-e]

This could be purely coincidental, but when is the last time a kid has "announced" for UConn? I honestly cannot recall an instance of one of our players setting an announcement date and picking UConn. I'm sure it's happened, but I'm drawing a blank.

Never. He must love playing zone- poor kid- or as they say in the South-"bless his heart".

 

[aceboon]

Did Harkless announce?

Yes, right before the UK game @ MSG

 

[upstater]

Ollie is one big man away from coming back loaded for 2 seasons and a real big chance to be a top favorite. Someone to play PF with Brimah or center with him.

This assumes that Boatright comes back, but if he doesn't, they'll need a PG regardless for 2015.

 

[husky99]

Cuse I am hearing

 

[Pmurph678]

It's been awhile for sure. Certainly nobody on the current roster. Not any of our commitments for 2014 or 2015. Not even the guys who left the program in recent years - Roscoe, Drummond, Lamb, Oriakhi, Jamal Coombs-McDaniel, Bradley, Wolf.

It's actually kind of amazing that we've gotten as many good players as we have lately without a single one doing the pre-planned announcement thing.

Roscoe announced during a Georgetown game, picked us over them and Duke

 

[aceboon]

Roscoe announced during a Georgetown game, picked us over them and Duke

wasn't a press conference or anything like that though, word just came out. Harkless is the only one in recent memory I can recall as he did it on SNY.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

Roscoe announced during a Georgetown game, picked us over them and Duke

No he didn't. He committed the same day as the Georgetown game, but it wasn't during the game. Nobody knew that he was deciding that day.

 

[johnhuskies95]

Harkless had an announcement for UConn on SNY. Of course, he never actually ended up attending UConn.

 

[3uconn]

http://zagsblog.com/articles/saying-hes-ready-richardson-set-to-announce/

 

[huskiesNhoos]

"He's gotta focus on being a lockdown defender."

Cuse and their zone would be the obvious best choice for that...

 

[jleves]

I've never understood how they get such great classes over and over again. They don't take many of those kids and put them in the NBA and the ones they do don't have stellar careers other than the one and done who they didn't develop, but rode. They don't win big games. One championship over 30 years of getting top classes isn't burning things down. I can't believe upstate New York is a huge draw to most (kinda like Storrs, but maybe worse). As has been pointed out, playing a zone doesn't exactly get anyone ready for NBA defense. So how do they draw these top kids year in and year out? I just don't get it.