By JASON MORROW
Special to ZAGSBLOG
KETTERING, Ohio – After a long wait, Roselle Catholic point guard Isaiah Briscoe made his junior season debut on Monday afternoon at Flyin’ to the Hoop. There was very little rust to be found on the 2015 guard’s game, as he went for 24 points and six rebounds as his Lions squad defeated Miller Grove (GA) 70-61.
The win snapped a three-game losing streak for coach Dave Boff’s club, which lost to New Jersey rivals The Patrick School and Linden before falling to Northland (OH) on Saturday.
When asked about his return, Briscoe expressed his excitement for rejoining his team.
“It felt great, I got a chance to come back with my teammates. They’ve been waiting on me, I’ve been waiting to get back out there,” Briscoe said. “I was just so anxious to get out there and show how good we are as a team.”
The only potential blemish on his performance Monday was his performance at the line, shooting just 14-of-21 from the free-throw stripe. As for rust however, Briscoe was confident in saying that’s not an issue.
“I felt good, I wasn’t out of shape because I was still practicing, running the treadmill before practice, after practice just to stay in shape,” Rivals 17th-ranked 2015 prospect said.
As for the recruiting side of things, the Roselle Catholic star said that he would start to cut his list down in “a month or two.”
With offers from a majority of the high-major programs, the 6-foot-4 guard listed Arizona, Seton Hall, Rutgers, Cincinnati, Florida, Baylor and Pittsburgh as the schools that are recruiting him the hardest. Syracuse has also been deeply involved, as has St. John’s.
One of the schools mentioned, Cincinnati, had assistant coach Darren Savino in attendance for today’s game.
When asked about his goals, it was winning, not recruiting that is on the guard’s mind.
“Hopefully go undefeated [from here on out], win the TOC,” he said, “and I just want to see everybody on the team do well.”
