Weekend Update (6/8): Commitments, Offers, and Recruiting Tidbits
June summer school ball is in full swing, but there are still graduating seniors and other former Oregon prep basketball players who are making college decisions. Here’s a recap of the news from the past week. Commitments Christian Russell (2016…
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Continue ReadingJune summer school ball is in full swing, but there are still graduating seniors and other former Oregon prep basketball players who are making college decisions. Here’s a recap of the news from the past week.
Commitments
Christian Russell (2016 South Salem/Chemeketa CC) to Texas Wesleyan – It’s been a long road for Russell since graduating from South Salem in 2016 which has seen him go from redshirt walk-on at Oregon State to spending a year at Seattle Pacific to this past season at Chemeketa. The next step for the 6-foot-11 big man will be in Texas at NAIA Texas Wesleyan.
Elijah Gonzales (2017 Clackamas/St. Peter’s/Western Oregon) to Clarendon (TX) JC – Gonzales was 6A Player of the year in 2017 where he helped lead Clackamas to the state title game. The dynamic 5-foot-9 point guard got a late scholarship to St. Peter’s where he had a solid freshman season, but decided to come back home to Western Oregon. He didn’t play this past season but will hope to return to the D-I level after spending a year at Clarendon, which plays in one of the most competitive national JC regions in the country.
Trevon Richmond (2019 Jefferson) to Bellevue CC – Over the course of the season with Jefferson and in the spring with Deep III, Richmond was in discussion with a number of schools at different levels. Unfortunately options at the D-II level didn’t pan out but what those schools miss out is Bellevue’s gain. Richmond’s high motor should give head coach Donald Brady an option in the backcourt.
Emmanuel “Seyi” Reilly (2018 De La Salle North) to City College of San Francisco – After helping De La Salle North to the 3A title in 2018, Reilly headed to Hawaii where he hoped to make the team as a walk-on. Unfortunately it did not work out and the 6-foot-3 athlete came home to look for a new opportuity. He’ll get that at City College of San Francisco where he should be a freshman in eligibility.
Fred Harding (2019 Lake Oswego), Treyden Harris (2019 South Salem), Logan Pruitt (2019 Pleasant Hill), Lukas Findley (2019 Dayton), Ethan Flanigan (2019 Sprague), Kyree Davis (2019 Westview) to Linn-Benton CC – We covered these signings here.
Transfers
Anthony Mathis (2015 West Linn/New Mexico) to Oregon – Mathis was the big commitment of the week as he went from entering the transfer portal to Duck commitment within days. It was all a matter of taking his official visit and getting the offer that led to the West Linn product to commit to joining former teammate and brother Payton Pritchard in the Oregon backcourt. It would not be a surprise to see Mathis come right in and start right away with his ability to shoot from long range.
Jack Poling (2018 Westview/Pacific Lutheran) to Alma (MI) College – After playing his freshman season at Pacific Lutheran, the big man has decided to head east to Alma College, a Division III program located in Michigan. He had considered the possibility of playing at Clark (WA) CC for a season but family connections in Michigan and not having to transfer again after one year made the difference in the end.
Other Tidbits
The NBPA Top 100 Camp takes place this week and two Oregon preps will be in attendance – Nathan Bittle (2021 Crater) and Kaelan O’Neil (2020 Churchill)… Some of Class of 2019 standouts have made college decisions which will not include playing basketball to start. Seaside head coach Bill Westerholm informed PrepHoops that his son Payton Westerholm and teammate Chase Januik are planning to attend the University of Oregon… Another senior recently making a decision on his future is Cam Feik (2019 Wilsonville). The gritty 5-foot-11 point guard will be enlisting in the Army with an initial enlistment of 3.5 years with a number of different options available to him after that. A bonus with Feik is that his four-year college eligibility is completely preserved all the way up to the Division I level.