- ICYMI – 2017 Guard Javon Taylor Verbally Commits to Friars
- FriarBasketball.com – Craig Leighton – Javon Taylor Commits to the Friars
- New England Recruiting Report – Taylor to Providence in ’17
2017 Guard Javon Taylor Verbally Commits to Friars
Ed Cooley and the Friar faithful certainly needed a commitment to get the bad taste out of their mouths after Donovan Mitchell pledged to the Louisville Cardinals. I’m sure everyone was thinking the next commit would be from a player in the class of 2015. Instead, class of 2017 member Javon Taylor gave Cooley his verbal commitment after the Elite Camp held on campus on Saturday.
The Friars are hoping there will be another commitment before the weekend ends with 2015 big man Alex Owens on campus.
Check out Javon Taylor’s Friar Crystal Ball page here.
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#pcbb Links of the Day 8/9/14
- ICYMI – Three Freshman Won’t Make Italy Trip
- ICYMI – Malik Beasley Cuts List
- NY Post – Zach Braziller – How a high school stud teaches Providence how brutal recruiting can be
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Malik Beasley Cuts List to 8
Malik Beasley announced via his Twitter account that he has cut his list to a top 8.
https://twitter.com/malikk_5/status/497896675290402817
Beasley had a very good spring and summer at camps and on the AAU circuit where he ran with the Georgia Stars. He’s described as “a long athletic true shooting guard” by ESPN’s Scouting Report. The Georgia native is ranked 48th overall in the nation in the class of 2015 by the 247Sports Composite rankings and has visited UCLA, Georgia and Georgia Tech unofficially so far with plans to visit St. John’s unofficially over the weekend while he is in town for the Big Strick Classic at the Gauchos Gym. Beasley is also high school teammates with PC recruits Kaiser Gates (2015) and Kobi Simmons (2016).
I’m not all that surprised to see Providence not make the cut. The Friars will hopefully get some good news over the weekend with big man Alex Owens in town for the Elite Camp Saturday. Owens has Providence in his top 3.
Check out Malik Beasley’s Friar Crystal Ball page here.
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Providence College Elite Camp Attendees
Last year’s Elite Camp was very memorable because there was a lot of talk about a PC ‘Fab 5’ with Abu, Chukwu, Lindsey, Joseph and Terrell. PC coordinator of basketball ops Mike Jackson even set up a phone call for Abu, Chukwu, Joseph, Terrell and 2015 Donovan Mitchell (Lindsey was not at the Elite Camp) with former Michigan Fab Five member, Chris Webber. All of the stops were being pulled out.
Chukwu and Lindsey obviously wound up at PC (and Lindsey was already committed prior to the Elite Camp last summer) but Abu chose NC State, Joseph chose Syracuse and Terrell chose Oklahoma State then URI. Donovan Mitchell wasn’t planning on attending this year’s camp anyway due to a family reunion but I would think Thursday night’s commitment to Louisville solidifies his absence.
Here are the players that I have confirmed will be at this year’s Elite Camp by class and last name (I’ll update this if more names are confirmed):
- Kealen Ives (2015)
- Damon Gomes (2015)
- Isaiah McLeod (2015)
- Alex Owens (2015)
- Dexter Thompson (2015)
- Jared Wilson-Frame (2015)
- Arkel Ager-Lamar (2016)
- Mamadou Diarra (2016)
- Wenyen Gabriel (2016)
- Matt Hanna (2016)
- Brandon Hurst (2016)
- Milan “Mookie” Lester (2016)
- Jimmy Panzini (2016)
- Saul Phiri (2016)
- Makai Ashton-Langford (2017)
- Geo Baker (2017)
- Hamidou Diallo (2017)
- Jakigh Dottin (2017)
- Donald Flores (2017)
- Javon Taylor (2017)
- Simon Wright (2017)
- Jonathan Cenescar (2018)
- Brycen Goodine (2018)
- Julian Mincey (2018)
Watch some video from last season’s Elite Camp courtesy of our friend FriarTV:
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Tickets for Hall of Fame Tip-Off at Mohegan Sun on Sale Now
The Friars will play two games at Mohegan Sun as part of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off. The first game is November 22nd at 2:30pm against Florida State and the second game will be November 23rd at 2:30pm against Notre Dame.
Tickets are now on sale to the general public as of 10am this morning. You can go to Ticketmaster.com or the Mohegan Sun Arena box office. Each ticket gives you access to both games on each day as UMass will play at noon on both days and will play Florida State and Notre Dame as well.
Prior to the games at Mohegan Sun, Providence will take on Binghamton and Navy at the Dunkin’Donuts Center as part of this tournament. The Binghamton game is on 11/17 and the Navy game is on 11/20. For a full look at the 2014-15 non-conference schedule, click here.
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Three Freshman Won’t Make Italy Trip
Kevin McNamara of the Providence Journal is reporting that 3 of the 4 incoming freshman will not travel with the team to Italy next week. Jalen Lindsey has become ill in the last few days and foreign born big men Paschal Chukwu and Ben Bentil have yet to be fully cleared by the NCAA Clearinghouse. As McNamara points out in his article, the Clearinghouse typically takes a longer look at foreign born players to be sure they haven’t competed in any professional capacity prior to coming to the United States.
It’s another frustrating turn of events for Ed Cooley and his staff especially because Chukwu and Bentil are both strong students and are just wrapping up a successful summer session at PC. This now means the active body contingent for the Friars in Italy will consist of 6 scholarship players and 2 walk ons. Kris Dunn will be held out of game action as a precaution andTed Bancroft has an injured shoulder which leaves just Rodney Bullock, Kyron Cartwright, Carson Desrosiers, Tyler Harris, LaDontae Henton and Junior Lomomba as the 6 available scholarship players to go along with walk-on’s Tom Planek and Casey Woodring.
I’ll have a more in depth preview of the Friars’ Italy trip on Monday.
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