Terry Armstrong, who is ranked No. 18 in the 2019 recruiting class by ESPN.com, has received three scholarship offers, including one from UNLV. On Sunday, Armstrong scored 18 points lead his Michigan-based U17 AAU team in the bronze-medal game of the Fab 48 tournament at Bishop Gorma High School.
Gary Trent Jr., ranked by ESPN.com as the nation’s No. 9 basketball recruit, has transferred to Findlay Prep. He is playing this week for a Minnesota team in one of the Las Vegas AAU tournaments.
Shadow Ridge’s Je’Rell Springer, who ESPN ranks as the state’s No. 5 recruit, has started to make a name for himself.
The senior guard at Bishop Gorman High School is being getting recruited by Brigham Young and a handful of other schools. He also would like to be considered by UNLV, where his dad, Christian Sr., played from 1999 to 2001.
Centennial boys basketball coach Todd Allen has resigned after seven seasons to move back to his hometown of Chicago.
The Centennial High teammates will do whatever it takes to win, even if it means sacrificing their own individual statistics for the betterment of the team.
The Bishop Gorman player said coaches who truly want him will show up to watch him play in his final AAU tournament this week. He is considering UNLV and UCLA among six other schools.
This week, beginning Wednesday, there will be plenty of more basketball around the Valley, when top AAU travel teams visit Las Vegas to compete in gyms around Southern Nevada.
Centennial’s Troy Brown averaged a team-high 23.7 minutes per game for the USA, while recording 10.0 points, 5.9 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and 2.9 steals, as the team finished the FIBA World Championships 7-0. It defeated Turkey 96-56 in the gold medal game on July 3.
Here are Southern Nevada’s top basketball recruits in the class of 2017.
