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Providence Hands Out New Offers After Second Live Period

The second live evaluation period is in the rear view mirror and despite being short-handed on the recruiting trail this weekend the Friar staff managed to hand out some new offers to members of the classes of 2016 and 2017. Providence offered local New England prep players Hasahn French (Commonwealth Academy) and Samuel Japhet-Mathias (Vermont Academy), according to tweets from their high school and AAU coaches. Another offer that went out on Monday was to Oak Hill Academy big man Joe Hampton. Hampton tweeted about the offer Monday night. The other offers that were announced Tuesday were 2016 point guard Tony Carr and 2016 power forward Sedee Keita. Wednesday saw another offer to a member of the PSA Cardinals grassroots team with their Twitter account announcing that Providence was among a few schools to offer 2017 big man Mohammed Bamba.

There will be a full recap of the Friar recruits covered in the 2nd live period’s recruiting guide later in the week but for now let’s take a closer look at these recruits who received scholarship offers this week.

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Recruiting News: Rivals Releases Expanded Class Of 2017 Top 75 Recruit Rankings

On Thursday Rivals released their expanded recruit rankings for the class of 2017. Prior to coming out with their top 75 on Thursday they had only ranked the top 25 players. Providence had 2 players in that top 25 and they now have 11 players in this top 75. Also remember that Providence got a commitment from 2017 guard Javon Taylor in August 2014.

PC Recruits in the Top 75:

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

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

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

 

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Recruiting News: Rivals Releases Class Of 2017 Top 25 Recruit Rankings

Rivals released their initial top 25 recruit rankings for the class of 2017. Only 2 Providence recruits made the initial list but in addition to the top 25 list they also graded an additional 25 players as 4 star recruits. A few Providence recruits fell into this category and would essentially be ranked somewhere between 26-50 if the list was expanded to a top 50.

To see the entire top 25, click here.

PC Recruits in the top 25:

PC Recruits Outside the top 25 graded as 4 star recruits: