WVU lands bigtime rcruit

[mountaineerinpa]

WVU lands the number 13 prospect in nation. Devin Ebanks. according to scouts.com

[mountaineerinpa]

I found that on Foxsprts.com

[milkman]

This is the Devine for the basketball team!!

[mountaineerinpa]

Imagine him with Joe A back next year WOW what a team, I think even if Joe does go pro we will still have a very good team witht he recruits coming in and the players there already.

[rainman]

Huggins lands top-ranked recruit
By Mickey Furfari
Times West Virginian


MORGANTOWN Mon, May 19 2008

— Devin Ebanks, one of the nation’s most heavily recruited basketball prospects, said on Sunday that he had decided to play for West Virginia University beginning next season.
Coach Bob Huggins announced that the 6-foot-9, 205-pound forward from Long Island City, N.Y., had signed the binding national letter-of-intent. Ebanks selected West Virginia over several schools, including 2008 NCAA runner-up Memphis, Texas and Rutgers.
He is ranked second among small forwards and 11th overall in this year’s recruiting class, according to Rivals.com. In rankings by Scout.com, he is fourth among small forwards and 13th overall.
Huggins, who is noted for his established recruiting ability from coast to coast, obviously was elated to have lured Ebanks to WVU.
“Devin gives us a very versatile scorer who can shoot in multiple ways,” he said. “At 6-foot-9, he’s an outstanding perimeter shooter with size and mobility. He had a great visit to our campus last month.”
The veteran coach thinks one of the many things that pushed WVU over the top were Ebanks’ visits with President Mike Garrison and Athletic Director Ed Pastilong.
“Devin was impressed to spend a half hour with (those two leaders) and had the feeling that everyone here is onboard to win a national championship.”
Ebanks attended Thomas More School in Oakdale, Conn., where he averaged 23 points, 10 rebounds and five assists per game as a senior for Coach Jere Quinn. He had a career-high 44 points and 14 rebounds in an 87-80 victory over South King High.
As a junior, he scored 23.0 ppg while averaging five rebounds, four assists and three steals. He scored more than 1,000 points in his two seasons at Thomas More prep and was chosen to play in the Jordan Brand Classic all-star game in New York last month.
In the summer of 2007, Ebanks was among 30 players invited to the USA Basketball Youth Development Festival at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. There he averaged 28.2 points and 4.8 rebounds per game.
He also shot 60,2 percent from the field and tallied 1.8 steals while averaging 29.8 minutes per game.
Ebanks played at Bishop Loughlin in Brooklyn as a sophomore and averaged 18 points, nearly six rebounds and 1.3 assists. He also played AAU basketball for Team Takeover.
He joins Darryl “Truck” Bryant of Brooklyn, Roscoe Davis of Upper Marlboro, Md., and Kevin Jones of Mount Vernon, N.Y., as signees for the 2008-09 season.
Huggins noted that Ebanks fit in well with WVU players during his official visit to the campus.
“Our guys like him and look forward to playing with him,” he said. “I think these four new players give us an outstanding recruiting class.”
The Mountaineer mentor believes they will be outstanding Big East performers and capable of keeping WVU in the national picture.

[smurph]

This is probably the top recruit we have had in MANY years (discounting Jonathan Hargett).

This kid brings the talent and athleticism of a Joe Alexander, but is MUCH more polished at this point than Joe was. If Alexander stays this year, expect us to challenge for the Big East title.

[slaton10]

If Alexander comes back...The National Championship is not a far fetched notion...

[dehayes35]

Huggins is going to constantly bring talent like this to Mo-town!