ESPN Top 100 Class of 2015

[flyerlax06]

ESPN released their updated class of 2015 rankings expanding from top 60 to top 100. Georgetown, Villanova and Marquette have commits in 2015 so far:

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/playerrankings/_/order/true

Five 2015 classes off to fast starts

Georgetown Hoyas
Who they have: The Hoyas are off to a great start on the front line, landing center Jessie Govan, center Noah Dickerson and power forward Marcus Derrickson. Govan, who will provide great size, runs the floor well, has a nice touch in and around the lane, will challenge shots at the rim and has great upside. Dickerson brings the ability to score with his back to the basket and be a dependable in-area rebounder for coach John Thompson III. Add the sweet midrange shooting touch of Derrickson and the Hoyas have scoring inside and out along with a rim protector in this early recruiting haul.

Who they want: Wing scoring seems to be a priority for the Hoyas. Small forward Dwayne Bacon has great size, the ability to hit contested shots and range from behind the 3-point arc. Ray Smith is another long, athletic small forward who is an excellent slasher and offensive rebounder, while shooting guard Jalen Coleman can hit the open 3, has a nice midrange pullup and is a crafty finisher when he gets deep in the lane. -- Reggie Rankin

http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/ncbrecruiting/on-the-trail/post?id=10460

[stever20]

So far Big East with 4 recruits. 5th best behind ACC(7), B10(7), SEC(5), and P12(5). So far 32 recruits signed. 14 of the top 50.

One thing that will be interesting to watch with 2015 is the NBA. If they do the 2 and done rule, that is going to change a ton with recruiting.

[BEX]

X only has 2 returning Seniors, and 7 newbies coming in, so I would suspect Mack will be very selective for 2015 and may take a long look.

[Irishdawg]

I think if Mack somehow keeps that entire incoming class of 6 Freshmen at Xavier their entire college careers that will be unreal. He can be selective, but I think they'll definitely want to get a wing and probably another big.

[BEX]

Exactly what I was thinking. Mack loves the bigs.

[GumbyDamnit!]

So far Big East with 4 recruits. 5th best behind ACC(7), B10(7), SEC(5), and P12(5). So far 32 recruits signed. 14 of the top 50.

One thing that will be interesting to watch with 2015 is the NBA. If they do the 2 and done rule, that is going to change a ton with recruiting.

You have to look at recruits per team not per conference. Using the numbers you provided:

ACC 7/15 = .47 / team
B1G 7/15 = .50 / team
SEC 5/14 = .36 / team
P12 5/12 = .42 / team
BE 4/10 = .40 / team

All comparable at this point with the exception of maybe comparing the B1G with the SEC. I don't think anyone should be concerned with the ability of the BE coaches to recruit. It seems apparent that many of the schools will continue to get very good players. Tim Delaney who signed with Nova fell out of the ESPN Top 100 recently but shows up in Scout at 102. So the BE very easily could be equal to the B1G with a .50 per team average. I wouldn't characterize them as "5th best" as Mr. Glass-is-half-empty did.

[GumbyDamnit!]

So far Big East with 4 recruits. 5th best behind ACC(7), B10(7), SEC(5), and P12(5). So far 32 recruits signed. 14 of the top 50.

One thing that will be interesting to watch with 2015 is the NBA. If they do the 2 and done rule, that is going to change a ton with recruiting.

You have to look at recruits per team not per conference. Using the numbers you provided:

ACC 7/15 = .47 / team
B1G 7/15 = .50 / team
SEC 5/14 = .36 / team
P12 5/12 = .42 / team
BE 4/10 = .40 / team

All comparable at this point with the exception of maybe comparing the B1G with the SEC. I don't think anyone should be concerned with the ability of the BE coaches to recruit. It seems apparent that many of the schools will continue to get very good players. Tim Delaney who signed with Nova fell out of the ESPN Top 100 recently but shows up in Scout at 102. So the BE very easily could be equal to the B1G with a .50 per team average. I wouldn't characterize them as "5th best" as Mr. Glass-is-half-empty did, but rather use these numbers to demonstrate that the BE is still one of the power conferences as it relates to attracting talent.

[TheHall]

So far Big East with 4 recruits. 5th best behind ACC(7), B10(7), SEC(5), and P12(5). So far 32 recruits signed. 14 of the top 50.

One thing that will be interesting to watch with 2015 is the NBA. If they do the 2 and done rule, that is going to change a ton with recruiting.

You have to look at recruits per team not per conference. Using the numbers you provided:

ACC 7/15 = .47 / team
B1G 7/15 = .50 / team
SEC 5/14 = .36 / team
P12 5/12 = .42 / team
BE 4/10 = .40 / team

All comparable at this point with the exception of maybe comparing the B1G with the SEC. I don't think anyone should be concerned with the ability of the BE coaches to recruit. It seems apparent that many of the schools will continue to get very good players. Tim Delaney who signed with Nova fell out of the ESPN Top 100 recently but shows up in Scout at 102. So the BE very easily could be equal to the B1G with a .50 per team average. I wouldn't characterize them as "5th best" as Mr. Glass-is-half-empty did, but rather use these numbers to demonstrate that the BE is still one of the power conferences as it relates to attracting talent.

The same with Hoya commit Marcus Derrickson. He fell from top 60 to out of ESPN's new rankings. But Scout's new rankings have him at #79. ESPN rankings are just suspect. BU's Kelan Martin had an excellent senior year yet he fell over 30 spots & out of their final top 100 for 2014. I put them at 2nd and soon to be passed by 247. The most reliable is Rivals & they haven't updated yet. #4 Scout's rankings updated recently. Still its way too early given the summer AAU circuit hasn't started yet.

http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=9&c=4&cfg=bb&pid=88&yr=2015

[ljay]

CU named by 17 of the Top 100 as a school of interest.

A negative to the geographic outlier is you have to get kids here on a paid-for official as cost to a family is likely prohibitive for an unofficial for most.

Thus, IMO it is unlikely that CU will get many uber-early commitments over the years.

All that said CU is getting unofficials over the next couple weekends but the kids are from Chicago (Glynn Watson) and a kid from KC whose name escapes me.

Another phenomenon is kids sometimes unofficially visit CU and UN-Lincoln over the same weekend as Watson is doing. Leon Gilmore who signed this year did the same thing when he came up from Houston.

[TheHall]

CU named by 17 of the Top 100 as a school of interest.

A negative to the geographic outlier is you have to get kids here on a paid-for official as cost to a family is likely prohibitive for an unofficial for most.

Thus, IMO it is unlikely that CU will get many uber-early commitments over the years.

All that said CU is getting unofficials over the next couple weekends but the kids are from Chicago (Glynn Watson) and a kid from KC whose name escapes me.

Another phenomenon is kids sometimes unofficially visit CU and UN-Lincoln over the same weekend as Watson is doing. Leon Gilmore who signed this year did the same thing when he came up from Houston.

Creighton is all over the recruiting scene with offers & interest for 2015-17 (transfers too lol). Now I see why. I guess they believe they have to cover a broad base early knowing some recruits will make decisions during the summer before CU can get them on campus officially. That 17 number doesn't include top 100+ CU is after. They appear to be the most active program in the BE followed closely by PC.

One good thing about the double visit trip is at least you get to go head up with a likely competitor w/out region being a neg factor. Worked with LG3.