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Arizona, Articles, Recruiting

Cliff Alexander will officially visit DePaul beginning Thursday and Arizona Sept. 13,.

“Made my 5th official visit to DePaul starting Thursday,” Alexander Tweeted Monday.

The Arizona visit, first reported by ESPN.com and confirmed to SNY.tv by sources close to the situation, occurs on a weekend when Arizona hosts Texas-San Antonio in football.

The 6-foot-9 Chicago Curie power forward previously said he would take official visits to Kansas (Oct. 4), Memphis (Oct. 18) and Louisville (undecided). Louisville is still working on a date.

Alexander is also considering Kentucky, Michigan State, Illinois and Indiana, having eliminated Baylor and Florida, according to ESPN.com.

As for his timetable, he told SNY.tv in July at the Peach jam, “I’m not committing no time soon. I don’t know when I will commit.”

Articles, Recruiting, Video

http://web.sny.tv/media/video.jsp?content_id=29752149
NEW YORK — The best part of this Carlton Bragg interview from the Big Strick is when I asked him if there were any offers he didn’t have that he wishes he did.

“Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Rutgers,” he said.

Say what?

“Yeah, Rutgers,” Bragg said. “They’re very good, I heard.”

Yes, the 6-foot-8 2015 power forward from Cleveland Villa Angela St. Joseph lumped Rutgers in with perennial powers Kentucky, Duke and North Carolina and said he’s still awaiting an offer.

Recruiting

Ben Bentil is planning several visits — official and unofficial — during September.

He will take an official to Miami the weekend of Sept. 12 and is still deciding when to visit Georgetown, We R 1 coach Terrell Myers told SNY.tv. The 6-foot-8 Bentil out of Middletown (DE) St. Andrew’s will also take an unofficial to Providence.

He also recently took an unofficial to Temple.

St. Joe’s, Xavier and Rutgers are also in the mix, Myers said.

Speaking to SNY.tv last month, Bentil said of Georgetown: “It’s a great school. First of all, my academics is most important. Basketball will take care of itself. Basketball is not a guarantee, so every school I think is a great program. I just look for a better academic program, and the basketball will take care of itself.”

St. Benedict's

By MARK BAIROS

Special to ZAGSBLOG

St. Benedict’s is losing one Canadian guard and adding another.

With point guard Tyler Ennis headed to start at the point for Jim Boeheim and Syracuse, St. Benedict’s Prep coach Mark Taylor will add former St. Patrick guard Kamar McKnight.

“I just felt over the past couple of years, St.Benedict’s has shown they are the No. 1 team in New Jersey and dominant on the national schedule which I wanted to be a part of,” McKnight told SNY.tv.

St. Ben’s will also likely add 6-4 junior Eli Cain of Medford Tech and 6-3 senior Carl Brown of Western (Ky.) High to offset the losses of Ennis and 2015 guard Isaiah Briscoe (Roselle Catholic).

Articles, Syracuse

Syracuse appears to have found its next point guard.

Kaleb Joseph, a 6-foot-3 point guard from Cushing (Mass.) Academy, verbally committed as expected on his weekend visit.

“I have officially decided to chase my dreams at Syracuse University and play for the hall of fame coach Jim Boeheim #OrangeNation,” he Tweeted.

He added in a text to SNY.tv: “It’s just how I’ve always envisioned things and something I’ve wanted to do since I was young. I had the chance and I took it. Not often do opportunities like that happen. I can’t go wrong.

Arizona, Articles

Craig Victor, a 6-foot-8 power, 220-pound forward from New Orleans Elite and Findlay Prep, announced on Saturday he will attend Arizona.

Victor also considered LSU, Oklahoma State and Louisville.

“The opportunity, the school in general, the supporting cast, the fans, the brand of the school and the role I’d be in,” Victor told the Arizona Daily Star. “It’s just to be able to develop my skills so I can play in the NBA. That’s the main thing. Come in and compete with everybody.”

LSU was also an option thanks largely to assistant coach Korey McCray, but Arizona associate head coach Joe Pasternack has ties to New Orleans, having been the head coach there.

“He was a big factor,” Gregg Holmes of New Orleans Elite told SNY.tv of Pasternack. “If he was there, we don’t know if Arizona would have recruited him.”

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