Bishop Gorman senior shooting guard Chuck O’Bannon opted against family tradition and made an oral commitment to Southern California on Friday.
Basketball
The fifth annual Tarkanian Classic, which has become one of the nation’s preeminent holiday basketball events, opens Thursday with 12 showcase games at Bishop Gorman.
The 14-team Legacy Tip-Off Classic boys basketball tournament, featuring nine local teams, begins at 4 p.m. on Thursday. The championship game is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Saturday. All games will be held at Legacy High.
Christian Marshall returned to running back after being injured in a season-opening loss and will carry a streak of five consecutive games with at least 100 rushing yards into Friday’s Class 4A Sunset Region semifinal against top-ranked Bishop Gorman.
Centennial senior basketball standout Troy Brown Jr., one of the nation’s top prospects, made an oral commitment to Oregon on Monday, ending a recruiting process that began before he played his first high school game.
Centennial senior center Darian Scott, one of the top shot blockers in Southern Nevada last season, made an oral commitment to Missouri State on Tuesday.
Recruiting rankings have existed in various forms for decades, but exploded in popularity after Seattle-area entrepreneur James Heckman launched an internet startup called RivalsNet in 1997.
Centennial senior Troy Brown Jr. has been drawing interest from college basketball coaches since his freshman season, making for a hectic and longer-than-normal recruiting process.
We will attempt to traverse that daunting and at times disturbing landscape by analyzing many of the different aspects that create the recruiting culture as it exists today, where it began and how it progressed, the good and bad of it, and the highs and lows.
Coronado senior forward Kennedy Koehler made an oral commitment Saturday to play basketball at UC San Diego.
Bishop Gorman senior guard Christian Popoola made an oral commitment Wednesday to play at Brigham Young.
Desert Pines senior guard Capri Uzan made an oral committment to play basketball at Air Force on Monday, announcing his decision via Twitter.
Desert Pines’ Greg Floyd will reclassify to the class of 2018 and attend Middlebrooks Academy (California) for the upcoming school year, Jaguars basketball coach Mike Uzan confirmed Wednesday..
Centennial rising senior Jamaal Evans became the second area QB to make an oral commitment for 2017 when he recently pledged to UNR.
Tony Fields, a 6-foot-2-inch, 205-pound linebacker, has been one of the area’s most heavily recruited players this spring. He has 19 scholarship offers — Northwestern was the most recent on April 30 — and his family has racked up plenty of hotel points over the past month and a half making unofficial visits on the weekends.
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