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PICTURED: Trey Pearson Trey Pearson 6'2" | PG Pope Prep | 2026 State TN Every year April arrives, revealing to college recruiters many worthy and unworthy candidates for scouting, tracking, or offering. After they get off of the road, they…
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Continue ReadingPICTURED: Trey Pearson Trey Pearson 6'2" | PG Pope Prep | 2026 State TN
Every year April arrives, revealing to college recruiters many worthy and unworthy candidates for scouting, tracking, or offering. After they get off of the road, they look through their notes as a team and begin the process in earnest of contacting players, inviting players to campus, to camps. Behold some of the recruiting machinations to recently emerge.
Trey Pearson Trey Pearson 6'2" | PG Pope Prep | 2026 State TN (Pope Prep / Brad Beal Elite 15u) thrived in April, poking free an astonishing 2.2 steals per game. This was the third best in the entire Nike 15 (EYBL) division! Pearson was also one of the top passers in the prestigious division (3.8 apg). A few colleges noticed, despite him playing in the rarely-recruited 15u age group. Often, college coaches invest their time in scouting 17u players, the guys who are just a year away from playing for them. Pearson was tracked constantly by Iowa State. “My parents and I spoke with Memphis coaching staff last night (5/16). Iowa State coach reaches out about once a week just to touch base. And overtime elite is also in the mix.” Overtime Elite is the pro basketball program in Atlanta, that is trying to wedge into a weigh station between high school and the NBA. It is quite new, only a couple of years old, and they had success luring a handful of high, high-end talent in their first year. Pearson was PrepHoopsTN Fall Combine Young MVP back in October 2022.
Jack Shutters Jack Shutters 6'10" | PF Baylor School | 2024 State TN (Baylor School) visited Trevecca Nazarene mid-week. They offered him to open April.
Jordan Wrancher (Fulton) committed to Johnson University.
Little Rock, a D1 program in…Little Rock, Arkansas offered Cello Jackson Cello Jackson 6'4" | PG FACS | 2026 State TN (PrepHoopsTN #1) and started what will eventually be a long line of offers. Memphis and Ohio State are also in contact. Back in the fall Loyola (IL) watched him play.
Rhett Broussard Rhett Broussard 6'2" | PG Goodpasture Christian School | 2025 State TN (Goodpasture) was contacted by Lipscomb DoBO Will Acuff and University of Alabama Huntsville also made contact. Last weekend Rhett’s effective FG% was 83.3%! He ran with Team Scoot Puma. Rhett earned PrepHoopsTN Combine All-Star in February 2023.
Eastern Illinois offered Rashad Williams Rashad Williams 6'7" | PF Bartlett | 2024 TN (Bartlett).
Memphis is now beginning to recruit Arnett Hayes Arnett Hayes 6'2" | PG Battle Ground Academy | 2025 State TN (Webb School- Bell Buckle). He is invited to, and it looks like he will, visit the campus in the first week of June.