Josh Selby visited UConn on Thursday and is considering the Huskies along with a number of other schools.
“I talked to his mom yesterday [Thursday],” said Herman Harried, head coach of Baltimore (Md.) Lake Clifton. “They say everything went very well.
“They are being considered as one of his top schools.”
Selby, the No. 2 point guard in the Class of 2010, decommitted from Tennessee and is still considering other schools, including Kansas, Kentucky, Miami, Syracuse and Texas, Harried said.
“He’s still going to look at other schools,” he said. “They’re gonna get back home and sit down and plan some other visits.”
Long Island forward Rod Odom also visited UConn Thursday and Norcross (GA) High SG Jeremy Lamb is there Friday.
PINKSTON, COLLIER, WILLIAMS PLANNING VISITS
Bishop Loughlin forward Jayvaughn Pinkston visited Villanova and Tennessee last week and now has a series of other visits in the works.
Pinkston, a 6-6 forward who had a tremendous summer, will visit St. John’s, Seton Hall, Miami, Marquette and Arizona in coming weeks.
“We’re gonna visit St. John’s early next week and spend some time over there,” said New Heights AD Kimani Young, Pinkston’s adviser.
“We’re going to Marquette for their elite camp” at the end of August.
After Labor Day, Pinkston will also visit Seton Hall, Miami and Arizona.
“He’ll probably get over to Seton Hall like the first week in September, after Labor Day,” Young said. “We want to schedule a Miami visit in September also, and Arizona in early September.”
Pinkston wasn’t selected for next week’s Boost Mobile Elite 24 event and isn’t happy about it.
“He’s upset but he understands that with any all-star team selection there’s gonna be a lot of good players that are left out,” Young said. “He’s going to use it as motivation to get into the gym and keep working hard and have a good season his senior year.”
Young added that 6-8 St. Anthony forward Devon Collier will “take an unofficial to Providence pretty soon.”
Collier also lists Arizona, Villanova, Rutgers, St. John’s, Seton Hall, UConn, Marquette, Virginia and West Virginia.
Derrick Williams, Collier’s 6-7 teammate at St. Anthony, plans to take unofficials to St. Bonaventure, Hofstra, Temple and St. Joe’s in September, he said.
He also has offers from Boston College, VCU, Drexel, Penn State, Northeastern and Providence.
TOBIAS HARRIS, CORY JOSEPH UPDATES
Torrel Harris, Tobias’ father, says the family will probably host a series of in-home visits before cutting its list down to five.
“We’re trying to figure it out,” he said. “It’s an extremely tough choice. We will probably do home visits first and then after the home visits cut the list down.”
Harris has a list of about a dozen schools, including Kentucky, which he visited before playing in the Nike Global Challenge in Oregon.
Cory Joseph, the Canadian point guard playing at Findlay (Nev.) Prep, still has more than 15 schools on his list but will cut it at the end of August, according to Ro Russell of Grassroots Canada.
Dwight Powell, the Canadian power forward at Bradenton (FL) IMG Academy, has cut his list to Stanford, Harvard and Georgia Tech.
Check back next week for more updates on many of these guys from the Boost Mobile game.
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DrDick / August 14, 2009
I hope Selby’s mommy finds a school for her son. If she is looking for the highest bidder she should speak to Wes again about Kentucky.
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Steppin_Razor / August 14, 2009
Clearly UConn pays well too. In fact they have a former coach who is now an agent who steers players to UConn. Just ask Ater Majok.
Do you really think Calipari is the only coach that benefits from WWW ? Ask Ol’ Roy Williams who he uses when Jordan isn’t around to sway a recruit to Chapel Hill. Or maybe Ernie Kent at Oregon. At least Cal knew WWW way before either of them were big time. They have been friends for over 25 years. Get a dose of reality DICK and get some facts before posting on every article about this.
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Avaricious / August 14, 2009
I can’t stand UConn, but it wasn’t a “former coach.” Get the facts correct or don’t knock the original guy.
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blasphemy / August 15, 2009
That’s what she said.
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tsmooth / August 15, 2009
selby’s going to kentucky. memphis is getting joe jackson and possibly cory joseph. duke is going to get kyrie irving. next year will be a good class for point guards.
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tsmooth / August 15, 2009
according to rivals.com, selby is more than likely not going to kentucky due to UK probably acquiring brandon knight, and with eric bledsoe already being there, one of the three will be strapped for minutes if they got all of them. i don’t see kentucky having such an outstanding class as they had this year, which by the way should have been memphis’s class had cal honored the coaching code, but i do see memphis as having a top 5 or even top 3 class if we just obtain a couple of the prospects in or around the memphis area, i.e. chris crawford, michael bradley, austin hollins, tarik black, casey prather, or even cory joseph who said memphis is near the top of his list, and pastner is good friends with joseph’s coach so keep an eye on him probably coming to memphis. memphis is looking good without cal, and with pastner building back the bridges with memphis high school coaches that cal tore down, memphis won’t miss out on too many j.p. princes or elliot williams or even leslie macdonalds. go blue!
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