After a breakout summer on the AAU circuit, McCluer North (MO) guard B.J. Young shot up to five-star status in the recruiting rankings. Fresh off being named the MVP of the Five-Star Super Session in New York, Inside the Hall ...
(Photo Credit: Jack Arent/adidas) For the first time since the conclusion of the July evaluation period, we’ve updated our 2011 Recruiting Board and as discussed frequently in the comments, the board is focused on Cody Zeller and B.J. Young. Both ...
After falling from Scout’s post-spring Top 100, Hamilton Heights (IN) guard and IU commit Austin Etherington is once again ranked by the national recruiting service led by Dave Telep. Etherington missed time early in the AAU season with a stress ...
Joe Eberhardt is a high school sports blogger and writer in Indiana. He created Indy Hoops Blog and contributes to the Hoosier Hoops Report. You can follow him on twitter at @IndyHoopsBlog. The 2013 class in Indiana isn’t very big, ...
Ron Patterson could have left the state of Indiana for college. But ultimately, he decided it would be best to stay home. During his second visit this week to Bloomington, the Broad Ripple guard gave a verbal commitment to Tom ...
Our friend Jody Demling of The Louisville-Courier Journal is reporting that Broad Ripple guard Ron Patterson has given a verbal commitment to Indiana. Patterson, a 6-3 guard from the 2012 class, had been considered an Indiana lean and a recent ...
It’s not as crazy as it seems. Yes, Gary Harris is an elite basketball recruit, particularly after what has been a successful and massively impressive summer. But there’s value, he said, in finding his escape from the hectic universe of ...
I only caught part of the Africa-Latin American third-place bout tonight at the University of Illinois-Chicago Pavilion. But one thing that stuck out to me about Jurkin beyond his obvious size? He was impressively fast, and smooth, running down the ...
As expected, Indiana received its first 2012 commitment on Monday night as Peter Jurkin gave a verbal pledge to the Hoosiers during halftime of the adidas Nations Global Challenge championship game in Chicago. “I have decided to commit to Indiana ...
Joe Eberhardt is a high school sports blogger and writer in Indiana. He created Indy Hoops Blog and contributes to the Hoosier Hoops Report. You can follow him on twitter at @IndyHoopsBlog. The state of Indiana is known for producing ...
According to a report by the Washington Times-Herald, 2011 Washington (IN) forward Cody Zeller has trimmed his list of schools to three. And as expected, there are no surprises: Zeller’s final three are Indiana, Butler and North Carolina: “It was ...
Joe Eberhardt, the editor and creator of Indy Hoops Blog, was in attendance this past weekend at the ChicagoHoops.com End of Season Showdown in Merrillville, Indiana. Also in attendance: A trio of Indiana coaches: Tom Crean, Bennie Seltzer and Steve ...
If Austin Etherington moved out of the national rankings as a result of missing significant time this past spring, perhaps his performances in July will prove his name belongs amongst the country’s elite high school players. The 6-6, 190-pound Hamilton ...
The speculation that has been building for weeks was correct: Medina (OH) forward Kenny Kaminski will take his game to East Lansing. Evan Daniels of Scout.com reports, via a source, that Kaminski has given a verbal commitment to Tom Izzo ...
It was not long ago that Cincinnati Aiken’s Aaron Thomas spoke as if he might be the next piece to Indiana’s 2011 recruiting class. But in a story published today by Brian Snow of Rivals.com, Indiana was not mentioned among ...
The summer is winding down for Naadir Tharpe, though you wouldn’t know it by the recent flurry of activity that’s marked his recruitment. After Tharpe’s New England Playaz took home top honors at the West Virginia Hoop Group Jam Fest ...