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MD SF Mekhi Long unofficial 6/29/18, committed 6/29/18

Gob Gabriel 2017 URI Elite Camp

NJ SG Paul Mulcahy unofficial 2018 La Salle game, committed to Rutgers 5/16/18
PA SG Dahmir Bishop unofficial 6/23+24, committed to Xavier 9/14
CT SF Tyler Burton unofficial Davidson game, committed to Richmond 9/16
Joel Soriano 2017 URI Elite Camp, committed to Fordham
NY SF Ismael Massoud unofficial 2018 Dayton game, committed to Wake Forest 9/24
MD F Anthony Walker unofficial 6/16/18, official weekend of 9/22, committed to Miami
RI G/F Preston Santos unofficial 2016 Belmont game, 2017 URI Elite Camp, committed to UMass
Turkey SF Yavuz Gultekin unofficial 6/30, committed to Virginia Tech, followed Buzz Williams to Texas A&M
PA C Naheem McLeod unofficial 6/25, official 9/6-9, 2018 Rhody Madness, committed to Florida State
PA C Ray Somerville unofficial 6/18/18, official 10/18-21, committed to Cal State Bakersfield
MD PF Jason Murphy unofficial 6/8/18, committed to NJIT
MA PG Daman Tate 2017 URI Elite Camp, committed to Boston University
Tyson Etienne 2017 URI Elite Camp, committed to Wichita State
MD F Marial Mading official 9/28, committed 10/2, left program in May 2019
MA PF Hason Ward 2017 URI Elite Camp, official visit 5/4/19, committed to VCU

Last home game. Last chance to have 19's in attendance for a game probably before they make their decision early in the Fall.
Is this an open recruiting/contact period? Can URI have 19's at the game tomorrow? It will be an unbelievable atmosphere to have a recruit in attendance.

Yes recruits can be at game.

Rhody83 wrote:Last home game. Last chance to have 19's in attendance for a game probably before they make their decision early in the Fall.
Is this an open recruiting/contact period? Can URI have 19's at the game tomorrow? It will be an unbelievable atmosphere to have a recruit in attendance.

Hopefully this didn't happen...

https://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com ... y-notebook

Dahmir Bishop unofficial information

I know its probably a broad time period, but when do most recruits begin to commit?

Most recruits now make their commitment shortly after their official visits in the Sept & Oct timeframe
For URI commits last year that was:
Tate - Aug 12th (he never had an official visit which is unusual)
Martin - Sept 13th (official visit Sept 8th)
Harris - Oct 6th (official visit Sept 22nd then visited Xavier Sept 29th)
Adams - Oct 8th (official visit Oct 3rd)
Silverio - Apr 19th (official visit Apr 18th)

The early signing period (NLOI) is Nov 14-21 this year.

The fact we’re recruiting some of the same guys as Villanova is a good sign, regardless of what think of the individual player.

Yeah if the best program in college basketball right now is looking at the same players as we are that's nothing but encouraging to me.
We must be looking at the right guys.

Yeah that's true and they may pick URI cuz of playing time issue

Tyler Burton announces his official visit for 10/19



Also changed the Damir Bishop official dates due to information from his thread

Needs some updating

Iggy1979 wrote:Needs some updating

I've added the Walker and Mading visits, am I missing anything else?

RhowdyRam02 wrote:

Iggy1979 wrote:Needs some updating

I've added the Walker and Mading visits, am I missing anything else?

McLeod official visit Sept 6-9

Rhody83 wrote:

RhowdyRam02 wrote:

Iggy1979 wrote:Needs some updating

I've added the Walker and Mading visits, am I missing anything else?

McLeod official visit Sept 6-9

Thanks, I added it

Espn updated their top 100 and both Bishop and McLeod fell out of it and Walker did not move in. However their overall rankings stayed at 81 for Bishop and McLeod fell from an 84 down to an 80. Walker is now a 79.

ESPNs ranking are largely considered the most uninformed and erroneous fwiw

Walker and McLeod’s ratings from ESPN (not in top 100) are fairly consistent with other sites, though.

Bishops’s exclusion seems off, as he’s somewhere between 78 and 99 for other sites.

Need to add the Diawara visit in September as well. Does anybody have an exact date for that besides just September as reported?

Add Somerville to the official visit list. He is coming Oct 19-21.

RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑5 years ago

We still wouldn't have had first visit, but maybe we sent the wrong message moving his official visit back

RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑5 years ago

RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑5 years ago

We still wouldn't have had first visit, but maybe we sent the wrong message moving his official visit back

Wonder how the Xavier coach totally flipped this recruitment around, even other schools coaches were saying URI was clearly in the lead. Time to move on.

Well they play in the Big East and have been a top National program for the last 10-20 years which is a lot more than we can say so that's what the X coach can sell him on

We now have three remaining known official visits. Walker, Mading, and Somerville.

It used to be all guards now it's gonna be no guards, We better get out and win this year or our Mojo might shrivel and needless to say we will need a facilitator in the 2020 class. I know that sounds a bit pessimistic, but in truth I feel that we will get out and win win win this year and remain an attractive destination for high level guards. As always pre-season I have high expectations. I have a bunch of faith in the returning players and think 2 or 3 of the in coming players will give good minutes. I still see us landing top 3 in the A10.

RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑5 years ago We now have three remaining known official visits. Walker, Mading, and Somerville.

I believe Diawara is visiting in October.
Long is also visiting in October.

Somerville is scheduled for Oct 18-20. I wonder if other ‘19 recruits will come for their visit during Rhody Madness (Long and Diawara are scheduled for Oct). Could also have some ‘20 recruits there.

I'm in my twenties and I have no idea who Lil Baby is, but I hope the recruits like him.

Rhody coaching staff is on the road visiting recruits. They don’t publicize it as much as other schools. The recruits and their families know it and that is what matters. It could be the approach is to stay low key to not draw more attention to the recruit from competing schools. They stayed low key with Omar in the Spring, Long in the Summer and Aris this month.

Rhody83 wrote: ↑5 years ago Rhody coaching staff is on the road visiting recruits. They don’t publicize it as much as other schools. The recruits and their families know it and that is what matters. It could be the approach is to stay low key to not draw more attention to the recruit from competing schools. They stayed low key with Omar in the Spring, Long in the Summer and Aris this month.

Rhody83, I saw ur post on Sutton in yesterday seeing Coulibaly and that you mentioned Boswell in Philly, was he seeing Naheem? Didn't know if you had any info or updates to what you heard

If you follow Ty on IG, you can usually track where he is and fill in the dots on what he’s up to.

Maybe Bishop is having second thoughts........kidding!

Sometimes I get some details and sometimes I don’t. No details on this trip so far.

According to this article Hason Ward took an official visit here last weekend

https://247sports.com/Article/Rutgers-B ... 131797905/