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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

State University Recruiting Rankings per ESPN

The Worldwide Leader in Sports has recently begun to put more of an emphasis on high school athletics and recruiting, as witnessed by showing high school games on cable television and making football's National Signing Day some kind of holiday for which it is excusable to miss a day of work. Scouts Inc., the recruiting gurus of ESPN, also rate a vast number of basketball players from all across the nation. Let's take a look at how they rank the players who will be incoming freshmen in the fall at all the Indiana state colleges. The players are given a number grade out of one hundred, a positional rank, and some are even good enough to be in the ESPN Top 100. Let's take a look.

Ball State (2 signees)
Jauwan Scaife - 83/100 ; SG #109
Huzie Hambrite - JUCO transfer (NR)

Butler (1 signee)
Andrew Smith - 88/100 ; C #31

Indiana University (6 signees, 3 in ESPN 100)
Christian Watford - 95/100 ; #29 overall, SF #3
Bawa Muniru - 93/100 ; Postgrad
Maurice Creek - 92/100 ; #63 overall, SG #15
Bobby Capobianco - 90/100 ; #100 overall, PF #33
Derek Elston - 89/100 ; PF #34
Jordan Hulls - 87/100 ; PG #30

Indiana State (2 signees)
RJ Mahurin - 81/100 ; SF #101
Jake Odum - 81/100 ; PG #85

IPFW (no listed signees)

IUPUI (1 signee)
Greg Rice - 40/100 (meaning they haven't seen him)

Notre Dame (4 signees, 1 in ESPN 100)
Jack Cooley - 91/100 ; #92 overall, PF #32
Joey Brooks - 89/100 ; SF #27
Mike Broghammer - 88/100 ; PF #59
Tom Knight - 86/100 ; C #46

Purdue (4 signees)
DJ Byrd - 90/100 ; SG #26
Jeff Robinson - 89/100 ; PF #38
Kelsey Barlow - 87/100 ; SF #39
Patrick Bade - 87/100 ; PF #72

Valparaiso (5 signees)
Chris Halvorson - 86/100 ; PF #83
Tommy Kurth - 86/100 ; PG #53
Ryan Broekhoff - 85/100 ; SF #72
Matt Kenney - 40/100 (meaning they've never seen him)
Brandon Wood - JUCO transfer (NR)

There are the kids who the local schools have coming in, and how they are viewed by ESPN. This is just one of many opinions on these players, and some services have certain kids ranked much higher or lower. What are your thoughts on how these classes stack up, and on how they will help the respective school?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry but isn't Valparaiso a "State University"....this is typical treatment of NW Indiana and the region.

p-hoops said...

whoops! i totally left them out...will do so right now. it wasn't intentional.

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