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Providence Adds Postgrad Guard Ricky Council to 2015 Class

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Providence has been looking to add another guard in the 2015 class for awhile now and there have been some names that popped up over the last few months. A name that Friar fans will remember from the summer of 2014 is Ricky Council. Council was a member of the class of 2014 when Providence first began expressing interest in the 6’4 guard from North Carolina. Following a summer on the grassroots circuit with his non-shoe company affiliated team Brand X, Council opted for a postgraduate year at Moravian Prep and became part of the class of 2015.

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Recruiting News: ESPN Updated 2015, 2016 and 2017 Recruit Rankings

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ESPN updated all three of their high school basketball recruiting rankings Tuesday. Paul Biancardi also gave some background on how the rankings are done:

We base our rankings on the four Ps: Performance, production potential and projection, among many other factors. First we analyze and evaluate a prospect’s individual performance, his production level now and possibly at the collegiate level, his potential in the college game, and where he could land on a possible professional draft board.

Let’s start with the class of 2015 where Providence currently has 1 open scholarship:

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Providence Expected to Watch 2016 Guard Trent Forrest

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Russ Wood of Rivals.com reported on Twitter Tuesday that Providence would join Florida at Chipley High School Tuesday night to watch 2016 guard Trent Forrest. Chipley is scheduled to take on Baker in a District 3 battle at 6:30pm.

This recruiting trip comes on the heels of associate head coach Bob Simon traveling to Hickory, NC to watch 2015 guard Ricky Council and his Moravian Prep team practice. Simon offered Council Monday night.

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Providence Becomes 2015 Ricky Council’s First High Major Offer

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Providence coaches began watching Ricky Council play basketball starting with the early summer of 2014 when they were in need of guard depth following the transfer of Josh Fortune just before Memorial Day. Council was a member of the class of 2014 back then and was little known nationally as he had opted to remain at his local public school and play for an AAU team in Brand X that wasn’t sponsored by any of the big shoe companies.The Friar staff opted not pull the trigger on an offer to Council back then.

That changed on Monday night.

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#pcbb Weekly Recruiting Update 11/7/14

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On the 2015 front there may be another point guard target that the Friars can get involved with, Traci Carter. Carter tore his meniscus in the Spring and missed the AAU season while he recovered so his recruitment fell off a bit. Scout.com has him in their top 100 at 92nd and his 247sports composite national ranking is 139th. To compare that to another point guard Ed Cooley targeted in 2015 Justin Robinson is ranked 86th by Scout.com and 129th by 247sports composite national ranking.

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Recruiting News: Scout.com Releases Class Of 2017 Top 50 Recruit Rankings

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Scout.com only had a top 15 before Thursday for the class of 2017 and they have now expanded the list to their top 50 players. There has been some movement within the top 15 for the players who made that cut last time and 4 Friar recruits made the cut for the top 50.

To see the entire top 50, click here.

PC Recruits in the top 25:

  • #26 – Jordan Tucker – 6’7 SF – Stepinac/White Plains, NY
  • #28 – Jermaine Samuels – 6’6 SF – The Rivers School/Mansfield, MA
  • #36 – Tomas Murphy – 6’7 PF – Northfield-Mt. Hermon/Northfield, MA
  • #37 – Ishmael El-Amin – 6’1 PG – Hopkins/Minnetonka, MN