on Wednesday. Spaulding nominated, is he possibly that good? With so many possibilities for us not yet commited this years game will be really interesting. Maybe Briscoe and Newman will get to play together in it.
McDonalds All American picks
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There's like a thousand nominations every year. The top tier of kids from each state get nominated, whether they're "good" enough or not.
From Ben Roberts at HL
"The McDonald's All-American Game selection show will be
televised live at 6 p.m. Wednesday on ESPNU, and several University of
Kentucky men's and women's basketball recruits are eligible.
The
list of nominees includes UK signees Isaiah Briscoe, Charles Matthews,
Maci Morris, Taylor Murray and Morgan Rich, along with a few other
players still considering Kentucky".
Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2015/01/27/3664151/several-future-cats-could-hear.html#storylink=cpy
"The McDonald's All-American Game selection show will be
televised live at 6 p.m. Wednesday on ESPNU, and several University of
Kentucky men's and women's basketball recruits are eligible.
The
list of nominees includes UK signees Isaiah Briscoe, Charles Matthews,
Maci Morris, Taylor Murray and Morgan Rich, along with a few other
players still considering Kentucky".
Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2015/01/27/3664151/several-future-cats-could-hear.html#storylink=cpy
KENTUCKY
BOYS
James Bolden, Holmes Junior Senior High School Covington
Aric Holman, Owensboro High School Owensboro
Camron Justice, Knott County Central High School Hindman
Raymond Spalding, Trinity High School Louisville
GIRLS
Maci Morris, Bell County High School Pineville
Morgan Rich, Allen County Scottsville High School Scottsville
Alexis Robinson, Paul G. Blazer High School Ashland
This post was edited on 1/28 2:13 AM by UKvisitor
A pdf list of the nominees
He's not eligible because (I think) he wasn't on a team at the time of the initial selections.
Kentucky's non-McDonald's All-Americans have turned out pretty good, though:
John Wall
Eric Bledsoe
Derek Anderson
Jodie Meeks
Jamal Mashburn
Nerlens Noel
Willie Cauley-Stein
Skal Labissierre
could add Mel Turpin, Walter McCarty, Nazr, and Magloire to that list as well.
This post was edited on 1/28 6:49 AM by miracle7s
I read that and the first thing I thought was how would Tipton twist this announcement:
"Many of the McDonald All Americans announced today had no interest in attending Kentucky or playing for Calipari. The reasons given range from not wanting to be forced to leave after 1 year or they didn't want to deal with clutter".
FYI, Holman from Owensboro is going to Prep school next year; Hargrave, I think. Will do him a lot of good.
Holman and Wright(Apollo HS Rivals #128) in owensboro are going to be pretty good, the 3rd regon is sick this year in KY. both in the class of 2016 and Apollo has a guy name Trace Young, a top Soph in the state.
It's correct, but...slightly deceptive, at least with the recent guys. Wall wasn't eligible for the Mickey D game because he was a 5th year player. Noel reclassified too late to qualify for the game (going into 11-12, he was listed as a junior). Labissiere basically doesn't have a HS team because of the shenanigans of his guardian. Their absences had nothing to do with any assessment of their ability. All were (are, in Labissiere's case) top 5 players.
Bledsoe and WCS were late-bloomers, underrated coming out of HS. Based on their ratings, it would have been a stretch to pick them for the game. It just turned out their ratings were way off.
The Mickey D picks are generally OK, but there is almost certainly a history of Duke/UNC/general ACC bias, as a disproportionate amount of lower-rated guys selected for the game have seemed to be the ones who sign with Duke and UNC (or occasionally some other ACC school). That's probably because the selection committee has been chaired for God knows how long by Morgan Wooten, legendary ex-coach of DeMatha HS (Hyatsviile, Md), right in the heart of (or at least what used to be the heart of) ACC territory.
Briscoe is in.
UK will probably have at least four guys represented in the game when it's all said and done (Skal wasn't eligible):
Any three of Newman, Brown, Swanigan, Zimmerman, Diallo, Ingram, Rabb, and Bryant.
Here are the rosters:
EAST TEAM
Dwayne Bacon, SG, Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Va.) - Florida State
Antonio Blakeney, SG, Oak Ridge (Orlando, Fla.) - LSU
Isaiah Briscoe, PG, Roselle Catholic (Roselle, N.J.) - Kentucky
Jaylen Brown, SF, Wheeler (Marietta, Ga.) - Undecided
Thomas Bryant, C, Huntington Prep (Huntington, W.Va.) - Undecided
Cheick Diallo, PF, Our Savior New American (Centereach, N.Y.) - Undecided
Henry Ellenson, PF, Rice Lake (Rice Lake, Wis.) - Marquette
Jawun Evans, PG, Justin F. Kimball (Dallas) - Oklahoma State
Luke Kennard, SG, Franklin (Franklin, Ohio) - Duke
Dedric Lawson, PF, Hamilton (Memphis, Tenn.) - Memphis
Ben Simmons, F, Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.) - LSU
Diamond Stone, C, Dominican (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) - Undecided
WEST TEAM
Carlton Bragg, PF, Villa Angela-St. Joseph (Cleveland, Ohio) - Kansas
Jalen Brunson, PG, Stevenson (Lincolnshire, Ill.) - Villanova
Deyonta Davis, PF, Muskegon (Muskegon, Mich.) - Michigan St.
P.J. Dozier Jr., PG, Spring Valley (Columbia, S.C.) - South Carolina
Brandon Ingram, SF, Kinston (Kinston, N.C.) - Undecided
Chase Jeter, C, Bishop Gorman, (Las Vegas) - Duke
Malik Newman, SG, Callaway (Jackson, Miss.) - Undecided
Ivan Rabb, C, Bishop O'Dowd (Oakland, Calif.) - Undecided
Malachi Richardson, SF, Trenton Catholic Academy (Trenton, N.J.) - Syracuse
Caleb Swanigan, C, Homestead (Fort Wayne, Ind.) - Undecided
Allonzo Trier, SG, Findlay Prep (Henderson, Nev.) - Arizona
Stephen Zimmerman, C, Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas) - Undecided
UK will probably have at least four guys represented in the game when it's all said and done (Skal wasn't eligible):
Any three of Newman, Brown, Swanigan, Zimmerman, Diallo, Ingram, Rabb, and Bryant.
Here are the rosters:
EAST TEAM
Dwayne Bacon, SG, Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Va.) - Florida State
Antonio Blakeney, SG, Oak Ridge (Orlando, Fla.) - LSU
Isaiah Briscoe, PG, Roselle Catholic (Roselle, N.J.) - Kentucky
Jaylen Brown, SF, Wheeler (Marietta, Ga.) - Undecided
Thomas Bryant, C, Huntington Prep (Huntington, W.Va.) - Undecided
Cheick Diallo, PF, Our Savior New American (Centereach, N.Y.) - Undecided
Henry Ellenson, PF, Rice Lake (Rice Lake, Wis.) - Marquette
Jawun Evans, PG, Justin F. Kimball (Dallas) - Oklahoma State
Luke Kennard, SG, Franklin (Franklin, Ohio) - Duke
Dedric Lawson, PF, Hamilton (Memphis, Tenn.) - Memphis
Ben Simmons, F, Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.) - LSU
Diamond Stone, C, Dominican (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) - Undecided
WEST TEAM
Carlton Bragg, PF, Villa Angela-St. Joseph (Cleveland, Ohio) - Kansas
Jalen Brunson, PG, Stevenson (Lincolnshire, Ill.) - Villanova
Deyonta Davis, PF, Muskegon (Muskegon, Mich.) - Michigan St.
P.J. Dozier Jr., PG, Spring Valley (Columbia, S.C.) - South Carolina
Brandon Ingram, SF, Kinston (Kinston, N.C.) - Undecided
Chase Jeter, C, Bishop Gorman, (Las Vegas) - Duke
Malik Newman, SG, Callaway (Jackson, Miss.) - Undecided
Ivan Rabb, C, Bishop O'Dowd (Oakland, Calif.) - Undecided
Malachi Richardson, SF, Trenton Catholic Academy (Trenton, N.J.) - Syracuse
Caleb Swanigan, C, Homestead (Fort Wayne, Ind.) - Undecided
Allonzo Trier, SG, Findlay Prep (Henderson, Nev.) - Arizona
Stephen Zimmerman, C, Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas) - Undecided
McD's AA is still the most prestigious list, but the Nike Hoops Summit and Jordan Brand rosters are still open. I'm sure Skal will make both, Matthews still has a shot at the Jordan Roster.
I doubt he makes it.
These all-star picks usually come down to who is largely within the top 25 of rivals, scout, and espn rankings.
What i love is how the Louisville news (wave 3) will put a story about a UL kid that only gets nominated for the game, UK has briscoe make it and nothing. Also how about a story on UK's 2 starting NBA allstars, i have yet to see anything about them on local news. I hate having to watch lousville news stations.