I hope everyone had a lovely Labor Day Weekend and people are ready for the fall to begin. Something that will begin this week is a recruiting period. That means — starting on September 9th — coaches can visit players at their homes and schools. That hasn’t been able to occur since April 22nd. The Providence coaching staff will be very busy on September 9th as they have plans to visit a lot of recruits, either at their homes or at their schools. There are also two more Friar targets that will get attention on and off campus from the Providence coaching staff. More on all of that below.
With the news on Sunday night that 2016 guard Temple Gibbs gave his verbal commitment to Mike Brey and Notre Dame, the Providence staff will now have to shift their focus in the class of 2016. Gibbs had been a priority recruit for the 1 open scholarship that PC has for next year. He had visited Providence for Late Night Madness last October in Bob Simon attended a number of his Seton Hall Prep games throughout the season. The question now becomes, who will the Friar coaches prioritize next in 2016?
Let’s take a look at some potential targets that could become the next priority recruit.
Eddie Ekiyor is a member of the class of 2016 and a native of Canada. He enrolled at the New Hampton School this fall and is making his debut on the prep school scene in the United States this season with the Huskies. Ekiyor was a member of Canada’s U17 national team that competed in the 2014 FIBA U17 World Championships last summer and he runs with Canadian grassroots team CIA Bounce. He started 19 of the 20 games he played on the Nike EYBL circuit with CIA Bounce in the spring and summer of 2014.
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