Ranking This Year's OVC Recruiting Class

[eaglephil]

Just for fun and debate, I thought I would make this rather lengthy post evaluating this incoming OVC recruiting class. I’d love to read what the rest of you think about it. I’m trying to rank each school’s class as unbiased as I can. What order would you rank the teams and why? Keep in mind, that these are only committed athletes that are shown on rivals.com, so some commitments will not appear on the list. Here’s my ranking of this class. Let me know your thoughts.

#1 Tennessee Tech
SF David Minaya, FL (Rated 3 stars by rivals).
PF Bassy Inameti, GA (Rated 3 stars by rivals).
SG Jeremy Jackson, FL (Rated 2 stars by rivals).
PF Jayvonte Hughes, IL
PF Charles Moore, OK

#2 Tennessee State
PG Gerald Robinson, TN (Rated 3 stars by rivals).
PF Dontrell Taylor, TN (Rated 3 stars by rivals).
SF Darius Cox, NC
SF Stephen Evans, IL
SF Emanuel Gaiter, IL

#3 Morehead State
PG T.J. Clark, TX (Rated 3 stars by rivals).
SG John Lamb, IA (rated 2 stars by rivals).
SF Demonte Harper, TN (Rated 2 stars by rivals).
PF Ken Faried, NJ
SF Leon Buchanan, GA (JUCO All-American).
SG Royce Gaye, TX

#4 Murray State
SG Jewaun Long, TN (rated 2 stars by rivals).
SG Matt Fraliex, KY (rated 2 stars by rivals).
SG Ivan Evans, KS
PF Tarod Sanders, KS

#5 Southeast Missouri
C Will Bogan, MO (rated 2 stars by rivals and 3 stars by scout).
PG Hank Harris, KS
SF Jaycen Herring, FL
PG Kenard Moore, IA

#6 UT-Martin
SG Benzor Simmons, FL (rated 2 stars by rivals).
SF Olajide Hay, KY
PF Andres Irarrazabal, FL
PG Sam Pearson, MO
PF Djero Riedewald, FL
PG Carlos Wright, MS

#7 Eastern Kentucky
SG Justin Stommes, MN (rated 2 stars by rivals).
PG Rodney Ford, MO
SF Deveyon Hunter, TN

#8 Eastern Illinois
C Matt Dorlack, WI (rated 2 stars by rivals).
SG Tyler Laser, MI

#9 Samford
PG Josh Bedwell, AL (rated 2 stars by rivals).
SG Josh Davis, TX
PF Matthew Friday, TX

#10 Austin Peay
PG Caleb Brown, TN
PF John Fraley, KY
PF Marcel Williams, FL

#11 Jacksonville State
SF Dell Coleman, MS
SF Dwight Tolbert, AL
PF J.R. Weathers, MS

[Admin]

I believe Murray State also got Isacc Miles, a transfer from Creighton.

Looks like a good class from Tech.

[eaglephil]

It's also rumored that Morehead could be getting a high major transfer and a highly rated prop 48 prospect.. Still waiting for some kind of announcement.

Overall, I think this is a really strong class for the conference. I'd love to hear from everyone else about their team's class.

[boomerang]

EKU lost recruit Rodney Ford. He is going to a Juco instead.

JSU has signed Nolan Richardson IV, son of former TSU HC Nolan Richardson III (the gun-toting one). I've heard that Richardson has the potential to be an impact player in the OVC.

[boomerang]

for g over at EKU's board....

Ford is going to State Fair CC. He is listed on their roster, and a local AAU website from St Louis mentions it also.

www.rameybasketball.moonfruit.com/

click on the section 'the word' in the above link.

Also, from State Fair's website....

www.sfccmo.edu/pages/465.asp

I actually posted this on the EKU board yesterday but it got pulled. Not sure why, it wasn't smack talk, just an fyi thing. I like to follow recruiting, not smack talk.

Is it 100% certain? I don't know (you never really know in recruiting anyway). But the juco website didn't list him last week, and now does. And the mention at Rameybasketball is from this week also.

[semosupporter]

SEMO will also be adding 6'8" Colorado transfer Calvin Williams. Williams sat out last season and has 3 years of eligibilty left. He is a glass eater who should be an impact player once the rust is shaken off from sitting out a year.

[boomerang]

Here is the link from rivals showing Richardson with JSU

rivalshoops.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?Sport=2&pr_key=58382

jucojunction.rivals.com/barrier_noentry.asp?sid=&script=content.asp&cid=698227&fid=&tid=&mid=&rid=

You have to be a subscriber to read after the first paragraph of the second link.

JSU's website still doesn't have their roster up yet, and I haven't seen any confirmation from them - just from rivals.com.

[boomerang]

Richardson must have had some grade issues, or transcript issues, or something because JSU put up their roster for this season and he is not listed.

www.jsugamethingysports.com/roster.asp?sportid=211