Latest Recruiting Blurbs

June 22, 2008

11:00 A.M. CST

The following is all of the pertinent recruiting information that has been gathered recently by Illinois Prep Bulls-eye as it pertains to recruits from the state of Illinois.

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The wave of high school transfers in the state of Illinois is never-ending and in fact is accelerating at a record pace.  The latest is 6'3 guard and University of Wisconsin commit Diamond Taylor, who is transferring from St. Joseph High School in Westchester, IL to Bolingbrook High School in Bolingbrook, IL.  This same transfer was also rumored right around this time last year but didn't go through mainly because both St. Joseph head coach Gene Pingatore and Illinois Wolves AAU coach Mike Mullins convinced Taylor that he would benefit more from a recruiting standpoint by staying at St. Joseph for his junior season.  Now that his recruiting is behind him, Taylor will head to Bolingbrook, where his father is also an assistant coach with the varsity.  Although he has been through it before, at this point Pingatore has to be shaking his head and wondering what hit him, as his other star player, 6'1 class of 2010 guard De Andre McCamey, is expected to be out of action until December due to a torn ACL.

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6'3 guard David Brown Hononegah High School in Rockton, IL, who competes on the traveling team circuit with the Illinois Warriors was in Ames, IA this weekend to attend the Iowa State elite camp.  With that being said, we fully expect Cyclone head coach Greg McDermott to have a scholarship offer on the table for Brown by the end of the weekend.  Brown already has a long line of scholarship offers, including DePaul, Oklahoma State, Northwestern, Wright State, Loyola-Chicago, Northern Illinois, Illinois State, Western Michigan, and Eastern Illinois, with his two most recent offers coming from Baylor and Cincinnati.

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Xavier Humphrey, the 6'3 guard from Fenwick High School in Oak Park, IL, whose traveling team is the Illinois Stars, visited Holy Cross this past weekend and also participated in their elite camp.  Fenwick head coach John Quinn told us that he believes that Humphrey will receive a scholarship offer from head coach Ralph Willard and the Crusaders.

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Mike Mullins recently sent us plenty of recruiting information concerning many of the players in his Illinois Wolves AAU program, so here goes:

... 6'1 point guard Dyricus Simms-Edwards from Washington High School in Washington, IL has been offered by Illinois State, Wichita State, Southern Illinois and Missouri State, with Kansas State, Colorado, Purdue and St. Louis all being among the schools that are monitoring him very closely.

... 6'6 forward Conrad Krutwig from Jacobs High School in Algonquin, IL has either already visited or will be taking visits to Wisconsin-Green Bay, Miami-Ohio, Loyola-Chicago, Lehigh, Akron, Eastern Kentucky and Albany.

... 6'4 combo guard Derrick Tart, who will be attending Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, NH this coming Fall, has been offered by Toledo, Missouri State, Ball State and Loyola-Chicago.

... 6'4 shooting guard David Bryant from Batavia High School in Batavia, IL, is receiving interest from Drake, Eastern Kentucky, Akron, Albany, Lehigh, Wagner and Hartford in addition to already being offered by William and Mary.

... 6'8 Nick Washburn from Mahomet-Seymour High School in Mahomet, IL attended elite camps at both Murray State and Illinois State and is drawing recruiting interest from both schools in addition to Ball State, Eastern Illinois and Western Illinois.

... 6'9 Zeke Schneider from Metamora High School in Metamora, IL attended a team camp at Northern Illinois University as well as the Illinois State elite camp and has received heavy recruiting attention from Ball State, Wagner, Hartford and Eastern Illinois.

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6'5 Tony Nixon from Seton Academy in South Holland, IL; 6'5 Troy Snyder from Bolingbrook High School in Bolingbrook, IL (who are both class of 2009 prospects) and 6'7 class of 2010 prospect Philip Jackson from Providence-St. Mel High School in Chicago are all high recruiting priorities for Northern Illinois University and were all in attendance at the Huskies' team camp held at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago this past weekend.

Continue to check in with Illinois Prep Bulls-eye for all of the latest as it pertains to recruiting and high school basketball in Illinois.