Recruiting report: Brandon McKissic (2017)
COLUMBIA — St. Louis University High 2017 guard Brandon McKissic has helped the Junior Bils advance to the Missouri Class 5 Final Four two years in a row. A talented combo guard, McKissic led the squad in scoring this season…
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Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA — St. Louis University High 2017 guard Brandon McKissic has helped the Junior Bils advance to the Missouri Class 5 Final Four two years in a row.
A talented combo guard, McKissic led the squad in scoring this season and tied for the team lead in assists at 116 in 27 games. After helping SLUH to a third-place finish, he enters the upcoming AAU circuit as one of the state’s top guard prospects in the 2017 class.
“He is our leader scorer and he kind of makes us go,” SLUH head coach Erwin Claggert said. “He is really good at getting to the basket and into the paint and making plays either by scoring or dishing tom guys.
“He really gets us going when he is aggressive.”
“I bring leadership and an aggressiveness and I feel that at any point I can get to the rim,” McKissic said. “And I can also pull up off the dribble and shoot.”
McKissic’s biggest offer to date is from Missouri State University, and he also has an offer from UMKC. He has drawn interest from SLU, Drake, SIU-Edwardsville and others. He plans to take his visits others once the season is complete.
“I like that (Missouri State) has offered me and I like the coaching staff,” Mckissic said. “But I’m still waiting to play my last year of AAU before I make a decision.”
Mckissic plays his summer ball for the St. Louis Eagles and said the experience has helped his game grow and transition into a Division I prospect.
As a freshman at SLUH, Mckissic said he really didn’t get a chance to play much. But since then, he has seen his career take off and says he owes a lot of the success to playing up with the Eagles on its 15-and-under squad after his ninth-grade season.
“We played up (an age group) and that brought out an aggressiveness in me when I came back as a sophomore,” he said. “I went from being an unknown player to knowing what to do. It changed my game from being a passive point guard to a combo that can get to the rim and shoot.”
Mckissic said his game still has room for improvement and said he hopes to improve his perimeter jumper. Mckissic shot 36 percent from behind the 3-point arc this season (23-for-63).
“I’m also trying to work on making my free throws more consistent, they are kind of on and off,” Mckissic said. “I need to stay above 70 percent.”