Recruiting Report: Josh Cornish (2018)
Every once in a while you come across a kid who may not check all of the boxes as far as physical attributes go, but it’s obvious he’s a division one talent regardless. Welcome to the story of Calvert Hall shooting guard Josh Cornish. At 6’2”, he isn’t the biggest scoring guard on the market, but for the past few seasons he’s been lighting it up against high level competition.
With his final summer of AAU ball underway, Cornish opted to play with Team Melo Red, a team full of under the radar players across Maryland. It’s a great opportunity not only for Cornish to show his ability to score the ball at a high rate, but also show that he can bring more to the table at the collegiate level if given the chance.
“I want to show them that I can get to the basket and play point guard,” Cornish said. “I know in college I’ll have to play point guard because I’m not a big shooting guard, so I’ve been working on getting to the basket and running a team.”
Despite averaging close to 20 points per game last season, Cornish only holds one division one offer from Southern Utah. At Pitt JamFest however, he had a host of schools following him ranging from Ohio University, Navy, Quinnipiac, ODU, Lehigh, Sienna, UMBC and NJIT.
Josh Cornish continues to show he’s more than just a shooter.Cornish would fit in nicely at a smaller school as a shooting specialist, but he has much more to his game than that. He can score it efficiently at all three levels, especially when he gets to the bucket and is able to use his upper body strength to finish plays in traffic. He’s still working on the full transition to point guard, but he’s shown good feel when getting in the lane and breaking down the defense.
If given the opportunity to play in the right system and with the right personnel, the Baltimore native could be a big time steal at the next level.
“I like fast guards that score a lot of points, playing hard defense, man-to-man pressure the whole game,” Cornish said. “I also want to go somewhere with a good staff that treats me like family.”
Until the right fit comes around, Cornish will continue to fill it up at a high clip. Until then, expect more and more coaches to continue to reach out while looking for a three level scoring combo.