One of the fastest rising prospects in Michigan is 6'9 forward Jon Horford for the Michigan Mustings. The Mustangs are still alive in the 17U division. Keith Appling has been getting great reviews as always and Jon Horford is drawing more attention. His latest list given to the NBE Blog was MSU, Florida, Alabama, Wake Forrest, and Miami. Izzo was watching intently but might be full in 2010 with Horford's teammates Guana and Appling locked up already.
Joining the Mustings in the final 8 teams at Cincinnati in the 17U field are the D1Elite (Derek Rose). Justin Martin has been playing well and is drawing attention from Xavier. Michael Chandler has had some good reveiws and the Mongrel believes he is playing with the 17U D1E right now.
The Illinois warriors will play Indiana Elite (Fox) in the 17U division. The Warriors have been extremely strong this summer and boast some of the best talent on the circuit. Dwayne Evans from Nequa Valley (Chicago burbs) has been having a good tournament for the Warriors. Indiana Elite's 17U team has the Mount Vernon Trio of Daniel Turner, DeArmond Davis, and shooter extraordinaire PJ Hubert along with Ge'Lawn Guyn, Butler commit Eric Fromm and other good players.
Two of the 16U division's final 8 teams are from Indiana as well. Indiana Elite Orange has been playing to a who is who of college coaches with Matt Carlino, Cody Zeller, and Marshall Plumlee leading the way and Indiana Elite/Team Indiana has been outstanding with Xavier commit Dee Davis and Muncie's Jeremiah Davis leading the way in final 8 of 16U division.
All-Ohio Red is the other area team still alive in the 16U field. Tom Crean has been spotted at a NJ Playaz vs Team Takeover 2:00 PM game according to the above link as well, no word on which prospects he is watching there yet.
The Derek Smith All-Stars West 16U squad has been on fire. Louisville's Remy Abel and George Fant and Chad Jackson have led the way for the Kentucky based squad which has drawn coaches from mid and high majors including Indiana and Louisville. http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/demling/blog.html Indiana was out in force to see the 16U Derek Smith All Stars for an earlier game, the 17 U Derek Smith All Stars boast among other good players 6'9 Curtis Washington who is fresh off his MVP performance at the Rick Bolus Blue Chip camp.
Indiana Elite/Team Indiana 15U is in the final of the winner's bracket against the Eric Gordon All-Stars. The EG all-stars are being led by Patrick Irving and Ronnie Johnson at guard and they will face off against Devontes Smith-Rivera and his Indiana Elite squad in the final four of the tournament.
Hoosier Shootout Developing Hoosier and Illinois Flavor
The Spiece Indy Stars 15U squad is still undefeated in the tournament and they face an excellent Atlanta Express squad in the 10:30 AM game. Austin Burgette and Jeremy Hollowell will have their hands full keeping tabs on 6'7 Denzel Council from Macon as well as 6'5 Jack Shanks. The Stars have played multiple games in front of Bruce Weber, Tom Crean, Brad Stevens, John Belien, Tubby Smith, Jack Owens, and assistants from Ohio State, Liberty, Cornell, and many other coaches.
The Spiece Indy Heat 17U Quarles squad has been unbeaten as well. 2010 Ohio commit Ethan Jacobs has been strong inside in the absence of 2012 behemoth AJ Hammons and Raphael Davis and Khristian Smith keep getting the ball to the hoop and it goes in or DeJuan Marrero is there to clean up. Point guards Steven Jamison and Brad Elam have been strong but for the Mongrel's money the best player for the Heat so far has been Yogi Ferrel the little point guard. Indianapolis Pike's Khristian Smith was outstanding on Monday at least.
Spiece Indy Heat (Felding) is without Travis Carrol but Purdue commit Donnie Hale is picking up the slack and they are still alive in the 17U division as well.
Team Southern Indiana has had a good start to the tournament. Day one updates are provided, I got to check in on a couple of their games but can't add a whole lot beyond what is in this Hoosier Hills Report blog. 6'7 Taylor Wischmeier is playing well and seeing Eastern Kentucky, Evansville, and IPFW interest.The Chicago area is well represented in the round of 16 as well. Illinois Old Gold, Velocity Red, Illinois Titans, and Illinois Old School are all still alive.
http://www.chicagohoops.com/articles1/hoosier.html
Other notes:
I'm hearing SYF players combo guard Xavier Jones from Gary, Indiana is having a good start up in Milwaukee at the NY2LA tournament. I hope to have more on that this afternoon. Here is the updated brackets for the tournament. http://www.ny2lasports.com/events/NextLevelInvitational/Next_Level_Brackets-July7-1.pdf
Morning update, as expected Tom Crean and Rick Pitino are taking in Marques Teauge's first game in Cleveland.
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