Class of '66 Old Fart

And another one bites the dust. St Louis, Northwestern, Illinois, Butler, Alabama, Creighton and Missouri are the final seven for Althoff Catholic (IL) guard Jordan Goodwin

Jallow's suddenly become a hot commodity. Northwestern offered today.

Full high school roster for the Nike Skills Academy. Filled with kids we've offered.

Indiana 2017 commit Al Durham among the 60 high schools players selected for the 2016 Nike Skills Academy.

Received offers from Oregon and Arizona State.

Announced his final 8 - we're still in the hunt!

Wilson's 2016 AAU stats. He played in the 17U bracket and on the same team as Isaiah Washington. Double digit rebounds in 4 of his 12 games and a good FG% Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. Blks. 4/15 13 4 9 0 2 5 8 6 1 3 3 0 4/16 18 7 12 0 0 4 8 10 3 3 0 4 4/16 15 5 10 2 4 3 4 3 1 4 1 3 4/17 7 3 4 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 4/22 15 5 9 1 3 4 6 5 0 1 1 4 4/23 16 5 14 0 3 6 6 6 3 1 1 0 4/23 19 7 10 1 1 4 6 10 1 2 0 1 4/24 14 5 9 0 1 4 6 4 0 1 0 0 5/28 19 8 13 1 1 2 2 8 0 2 0 1 5/28 18 6 11 0 0 6 6 2 0 0 0 0 5/29 17 6 14 0 2 5 8 11 2 1 1 0 5/29 25 8 10 0 0 9 12 10 2 5 1 0 No Individual Stats from UA Finals Avg 16.3 55% 29% 72% 6 1 2 1

If we do offer, here's his 2016 AAU stats. Certainly not an exceptional shooter but for a PG, he does a good job of rebounding and he's had some good assist numbers. Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. Blks. 4/15 10 3 12 2 4 2 4 4 8 3 3 0 4/16 18 6 12 2 6 4 6 8 7 3 1 0 4/16 17 6 15 1 4 4 5 8 5 0 0 0 4/17 8 3 5 2 2 0 0 5 4 1 0 0 4/22 16 6 11 0 4 4 5 1 5 2 0 0 4/23 10 4 17 2 9 0 0 4 8 0 0 0 4/23 29 11 20 2 4 5 7 2 5 2 3 1 4/24 7 3 10 0 1 1 1 3 4 0 2 0 5/28 16 5 11 0 0 6 7 5 5 2 0 0 5/28 14 6 15 1 2 1 1 8 4 1 0 0 5/29 2 1 12 0 4 0 0 1 5 1 0 0 5/29 16 7 15 0 0 2 5 10 3 4 3 0 No Individual Stats from UA Finals Avg 13.6 39% 30% 71% 5 5 2 1

Right you are and it truly was creepy. I think Capt. Jack stayed on as a regular for the remainder of that particular season. He's also had a couple of guest appearances in later years.

Am I the only Dr. Who fan on the board? Every time I see pictures of them in their masks I can't help but think of the Empty Child episode when Christopher Eccleston was still playing The Doctor.

Hauser's team made it to the championship game of the Adidas Summer Championships but was beaten 70 - 69 by Ohio Basketball Club 70. Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. Blks. Min. 7/20 16 5 10 0 2 6 7 7 0 4 0 1 22 7/21 16 6 10 2 4 2 3 9 1 4 0 2 24 7/22 19 7 13 3 6 2 2 6 1 1 1 0 23 7/23 12 5 8 1 2 1 4 4 3 1 0 0 17 7/23 9 3 12 0 3 3 6 5 3 1 1 1 18 7/24 15 3 6 1 1 8 11 5 4 2 0 1 26 7/24 24 8 11 3 5 5 6 9 2 1 0 1 25 Avg 15.9 53% 43% 69% 6 2 2 0

These lists these kids have drive me crazy but I keep telling myself it's better to be 1 of 12 on a list than to be 0 of 12! Class of 2017 shooting guard Brandon Randolph has cut his list of schools to twelve. North Carolina, Louisville, Kansas, Syracuse, Oregon, Arizona, Indiana, Miami, Wake Forest, Xavier, Notre Dame and Alabama have made the cut. Randolph saw this as a great time to progress with the recruiting process. “I felt like this was the best time for me to cut down my list because everything started to slow down and I was able to finally sit down with my parents and have a conversation about what options would be best for me,” he told MADE Hoops. “I knew I would cut down my list around this time because before I wanted to focus on camps and Peach Jam.” Randolph looks to cut his list down further in the near future. “I will be cutting down my list again very shortly, but I am not sure on the exact date or time period,” said Randolph. The next step for the PSA Cardinals (NY) and Westtown School (PA) product is to set official visits. “I have yet to set any official visits so I will have to have another sit down with my parents to weigh out my options,” he said. Randolph will use three factors to determine which school is the right one for him. “I am looking for the same things in a school as I always have,” said the class of 2017 prospect. “Good academics, a school that best fits into my style of play and a great connection with the coaching staff are all big factors for me.” [Personal note: If he's seriously concerned about academics then you can pretty quickly scratch a number of schools off his list!]

Misc. tweets from the AAU Super Showcase event concluding today in Orlando. Ryan certainly knows how to shoot. Magic 2018 Cormac Ryan scored 37pts in Gold bracket semi win including game tying 27ft buzzer beater to force OT! Middlesex Magic (MA) survive against Batimore United (MD) in a 17U 4OT game, winning 83-81. 2018 G Cormac Ryan had 27. Magic 2018 guards Cormac Ryan (31pts - 5 3's) & Thomas Shaughnessy (24pts - 6 3's) phenomenal in win! Magic 17u defeat NY Lightning in Gold bracket play. Cormac Ryan 21pts 2018 G Cormac Ryan is putting on a clinic right now for the @MiddlesexMagic. Highly skilled with an unreal hoops IQ. Really liked what I saw from 2018 Middlesex Magic/Crotty SG Cormac Ryan. Knocked down perimeter shots, finished at the rim 17u Crotty beat D1 Premier Texas. Cormac Ryan 20 pts,

Langford's team knocked out of the Adidas Summer Championships after playing 6 games. For these 6 games: Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. Blks. 7/20 22 7 15 2 5 6 9 10 3 2 0 2 7/21 20 7 13 0 3 6 7 3 4 0 0 1 7/21 18 8 14 0 4 2 4 5 4 3 3 0 7/22 40 12 19 5 10 11 13 8 1 2 3 0 7/22 11 3 11 2 3 3 3 5 3 2 0 1 7/23 10 3 8 1 4 3 5 6 1 3 0 2 Avg 20.2 50% 34% 76% 6 3 2 1 For 17 games of his AAU season. Numbers are remarkably close. Avg 20.6 54% 32% 76% 8 2 2 1

Phinisee's team knocked out of the Adidas 16U Summer Championship after playing 5 games but overall he had a solid tournament. Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. Blks. Min. 7/20 13 5 14 1 7 2 3 2 8 0 3 1 32 7/21 19 7 13 2 2 3 3 2 1 0 0 0 30 7/22 20 8 12 3 5 1 2 3 5 1 1 1 25 7/23 28 11 16 3 3 3 5 6 3 2 0 1 30 7/23 9 4 11 0 2 1 2 6 1 3 2 0 25 Avg 17.8 53% 47% 67% 4 4 1 1

Fort Wayne. Ind., 2017 center Malik Williams finished his AAU career Saturday with Louisville's Rick Pitino front and center for both games Jody Demling Yesterday at 7:44 PM LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Fort Wayne, Ind., Snider High School center Malik Williams finished his summer with Team Legit on Saturday at the AAU Super Showcase. Louisville coach Rick Pitino was in attendance for both games. Malik Williams finished his summer like he's played most of it - on a high note. The 7-foot center from Fort Wayne, Ind., combined for 55 points, 27 rebounds, 11 blocked shots, 10 assists and five steals in two games for Team Legit, who finished the week 5-3 at the AAU Super Showcase. Team Legit lost to Team Final in the championship of the 11th Grade Gold Division consolation bracket. "I've had a lot of fun with these guys," said Williams, who has played with Team Legit since the fifth grade and turned down a number of shoe-sponsored teams who wanted him to play for them. "It's just a great feeling for me. We didn't finish like we wanted too, but we still had a great, great, great AAU season. "It's real special. These guys are all like my brothers." University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino was in attendance for both games and the Cardinals' staff didn't miss a game where Williams was playing the entire summer. Indiana coach Tom Crean was the only other head coach in attendance on Saturday. Williams is considering U of L, Indiana, Michigan State, Iowa, Purdue and several others. Williams confirmed after the game that he "didn't have a plan right now," for how he will make a decision. "I'll probably cut my list soon," he said. "But I'm not sure right now." Team Legit coach Juan Gorman said his team was "special" and that Williams was "very loyal," for sticking with the team. The team finished the summer with a 20-7 overall record. "That says a lot about Malik because now a days there's not much loyalty," Gorman said. "That says a lot about the kid."

US U18 Gold Medal game statistics

Hutch article on Gelon in the Anderson Herald-Bulletin: BLOOMINGTON — Think of the great long-range shooters in Indiana University basketball history and names like Steve Alford, Jay Edwards, A.J. Guyton and Jordan Hulls quickly come to mind. In recent years, Matt Roth, Nick Zeisloft, James Blackmon Jr. and Yogi Ferrell have also been particularly proficient from distance. No pressure but IU incoming freshman guard Grant Gelon clearly has a chance to be mentioned in that same company. The kid can flat out shoot it. Clint Swan, Gelon’s high school coach at Crown Point, remembered a team camp game in Fort Wayne the summer prior to his senior year when his team went up against Jay County. Gelon had 42 points in that game and knocked down 11 3-pointers. “I was sitting there and I looked at one of my coaches, and I said, ‘Grant is going to have a game like this in the month of July in front of the right coach, and he’s going to get an offer that’s going to blow everybody away,'’’ Swan recalled. “And that is exactly what happened.’’ That coach turned out to be Indiana’s Tom Crean. Gelon was playing a high-profile AAU game for Indiana Elite in Indianapolis in the second-to-last recruiting period of the summer, and Crean was in attendance. Up to that point, Gelon, a two-star recruit, had received offers from Western Michigan, Illinois-Chicago and IUPUI but nothing from a major Division I school. Gelon had hit five 3-pointers and scored 25 points. Crean was impressed with his range, his size (Gelon is 6-foot-5) and his mechanics. Things got rolling very quickly in Gelon’s IU recruitment. “The following weekend was the last open period in Las Vegas, and Grant had two or three more really good games where he hit a lot of shots and sort of solidified in the coaches minds what he could do,’’ Swan said. “And then he took his unofficial visit to Indiana, and they offered him, and he didn’t even get out the door before he accepted it.’’ Initially, the reaction from Hoosier fans wasn’t particularly positive because Gelon had not garnered a lot of national interest. But Crean has a track record of success with under-the-radar recruits in the past. Two good examples are Victor Oladipo and Will Sheehey, both ranked at No. 140 and beyond in the nation coming to IU. Both scored more than 1,000 points in their IU careers. "That’s one of those signees where everybody’s looking at it and wondering because there weren’t a lot of people on him, and some other teams in the state or the Midwest didn’t recruit him,’’ Crean said last spring. “That’s where we’ve always stayed true to what we see. You stay true to what you see on film, you stay true to what you see with your own eye, you trust your instincts and you trust your coaches. You want kids from really good programs, and I think that’s the thing that I feel good about.’’ As a high school senior, Gelon averaged 14.5 points and 5.7 rebounds per game on a team that won four games in the state tournament before losing in the regional title game. Gelon shot 38.9 percent from beyond the arc. Gelon arrived in Bloomington in June and quickly caught the eye of his teammates and coaches. In the weight room, he squatted 245 pounds. “I’ve been lifting since eighth grade back in Crown Point with our high school strength coach teaching us all the Olympic lifts so I came in pretty comfortable with all of those lifts,’’ Gelon said. “I actually think I could have gone even more, but that’s where we stopped that day.’’ Gelon said he’s comfortable with the "shooter" label. He said that’s what he has been known for since the fifth grade. Swan said in high school there were times when he would have to kick Gelon out of the gym after practice so he could lock up and go home. “I’ve always been a shoot first kind of guy, but we’re working on finishing at the rim and getting better with my left hand,’’ Gelon said. “I’m also working on my ball handling. It’s all going to come. I just think being here, with all of these resources, I just want to make myself into the complete player that they see in me and that they recruited me to be.’’ It’s difficult to guess how much playing time an under-the-radar recruit will get right away at IU, but his high school coach is confident that Gelon is a good fit for the Hoosiers. “I’ve always said that no college freshman is really ready for college basketball,’’ said Swan, who also coached former Michigan and current Purdue fifth-year senior Spike Albrecht at Crown Point. “But once he gets acclimated to the rigors of big time college basketball, I really think he’s going to fit like a glove. Coach Crean has always appreciated guys that can make shots from way beyond the basket, and I think he sees Grant as a critical piece in that puzzle. “Grant’s body is going to evolve, his game is going to evolve and once it does to its fullest potential, he’s going to be a very important part of the equation at Indiana.’’

I believe he's playing in the AAU Super Showcase event in Orlando this weekend but he had another fantastic game. CTC and Pitino in attendance and probably others as well. Malik Williams (@leek_willi34) finishes with 31 points, 15 rebounds and eight blocked shots as @LEGITBASKETBALL moves into finals of bracket

2016 Under Armour AAU stats. Somebody lit a fire under him for the last game I found details of his play. Pretty steady rebounding numbers; good FG% probably mostly around the basket; needs work on his FT's. Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. Blks. 4/15 5 2 6 0 0 1 2 4 1 2 1 0 4/16 10 4 8 0 0 2 3 4 0 1 0 1 4/16 19 7 15 0 0 5 10 9 2 3 1 0 4/17 6 1 6 0 1 4 6 7 2 0 0 1 4/23 7 3 6 0 0 1 2 5 1 1 1 0 4/23 8 4 6 0 0 0 0 8 6 1 0 0 4/23 12 6 11 0 0 0 3 7 1 1 0 0 4/24 6 2 7 0 0 2 4 7 1 1 0 2 5/28 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 12 1 1 1 0 5/28 4 2 6 0 0 0 1 7 0 2 0 1 5/29 9 3 5 0 0 3 4 8 2 1 0 0 5/29 8 2 7 0 1 4 6 11 0 0 0 1 7/13 24 10 13 0 1 4 7 7 0 2 0 1 Avg 9.1 46% 0% 54% 7 1 1 0

He's human after all! Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. Blks. 7/20 22 7 15 2 5 6 9 10 3 2 0 2 7/21 20 7 13 0 3 6 7 3 4 0 0 1 7/21 18 8 14 0 4 2 4 5 4 3 3 0 7/22 40 12 19 5 10 11 13 8 1 2 3 0 7/22 11 3 11 2 3 3 3 5 3 2 0 1

How's this for a 4-game tournament especially today's game? Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. Blks. 7/20 22 7 15 2 5 6 9 10 3 2 0 2 7/21 20 7 13 0 3 6 7 3 4 0 0 1 7/21 18 8 14 0 4 2 4 5 4 3 3 0 7/22 40 12 19 5 10 11 13 8 1 2 3 0 Avg 25.0 56% 32% 76% 6.5 3.0 1.8 1.5

Now that we're known as a football school, I heard from a reliable source that Nick Saban has already been on the phone and on a plane to Suwanee!

Well, we can stop chasing this one. He cut his list to these 9 today.

After 4 games and I'm sure he'd like to forget about game 4 and his woeful shooting. But he wasn't the only one. His team only shot 21% in the first half. Date Pts. FGM FGA 3PM 3PA FTM FTA Reb Assts. TO's Stls. Blks. Min. 7/20 27 10 21 2 2 5 6 9 2 2 1 0 32 7/21 24 8 23 2 7 6 6 1 1 2 1 0 32 7/21 29 9 23 5 10 6 7 0 6 1 0 0 29 7/22 6 2 14 1 5 1 2 1 0 1 3 0 32 Avg 21.5 36% 42% 86% 3 2 2 1