European Prospects

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• 1 juan cobos // Mar 30, 2010 at 12:49 am

  there are a few more.

  stefan nastic to stanford, haukur palsson to maryland, enes kanter to kentucky, duje dukan to wisconsin, marin kukoc to penn, gylvidas birutas to rutgers, martins abele to radford, sebastian koch to elon, another serb playing HS ball to George Washington (do not remember his name right now).

  there are also several players considering ncaa school: thomas laerke( and i guess marko petrovic) from Findlay Prep, Lithuania’s Dominykas Milka from Christ the King, Jarelle Reischel, a former german U16 international who is playing HS ball in the US (his dad’s american)…

  alex dragicevich, who has committed to Notre Dame, is american but could get a serbian passport.

  there are many other players considering playing college basketball next season, but these are some of the most relevant.

• 2 juan cobos // Mar 30, 2010 at 2:38 am

  alright, all those kids i’ve said are not europe-based. just europeans, my bad.

• 3 Christophe // Mar 30, 2010 at 6:36 am

  @juan cobos, thanks a lot for the comments. I wanted to put up a list of Europeans in the US, but I did not have the time yet.

• 4 Christophe // Mar 30, 2010 at 6:40 am

  Jarelle Reischel is from the 2011 Class and gets interest from at least Georgetown, Penn State, Maryland, St. John’s, Providence, Kansas and Temple

• 5 albiongate // Mar 30, 2010 at 8:38 pm

  “another serb playing HS ball to George Washington (do not remember his name right now). ”

  Nemanja Mikic.

• 6 Christophe // Mar 31, 2010 at 6:33 am

  about other Europeans in the US, Marko Petrovic (nephew of…) gets some interest from University of San Francisco as I heard

• 7 juan cobos // Mar 31, 2010 at 3:38 pm

  thanks. I did not know about that. But it makes sense. USF is looking to grow with european players. They’re not a big time program, so they have to get players differently.

  I also know Laerke came to the US through the University of Idaho staff this year…

• 8 Christophe // Mar 31, 2010 at 5:35 pm

  @all
  I have added the US based players too now as you can see. if you have additional names of players that have committed or are being recruited, feel free to post them here in the comments

• 9 albiongate // Mar 31, 2010 at 5:53 pm

  Add Dragicevich to the list. His parents are both born in Serbia and he already owns dual serbian and US citizenship. He only has to make do his serbian passport at the consulate of Serbia in Chicago, which is a matter of time.

• 10 Christophe // Mar 31, 2010 at 5:55 pm

  @albiongate
  done

• 11 albiongate // Mar 31, 2010 at 6:03 pm

  Add serbian High School freshman Milos Kostic (1994, Bishop Noll) to the list.

  “Northwestern already likes what it has seen and has offered Kostic a scholarship.”

  http://nwitimes.com/sports/high-school/indiana/article_106ec473-d84f-5001-953f-51529fdc8df9.html

  “The 6-8 freshman has already been offered a scholarship to Northwestern and has drawn interest from Butler, Notre Dame and Purdue”

  http://www.post-trib.com/sports/highschools/1897226,gss-bb-1123.article

• 12 juan cobos // Mar 31, 2010 at 11:41 pm

  well. I guess he’s just a sophomore

• 13 juan cobos // Mar 31, 2010 at 11:42 pm

  wow, a freshman?

• 14 juan cobos // Apr 1, 2010 at 12:29 am

  Ricmonds Vilde (LAT) – Southern Methodist (committed), Raphael Giaimo (FRA) – New Mexico St. (commited).

  Furthermore, Robert Gilchrist (GB) is considering James Madison, Northeastern and Fairfield.

  All of them from the class of ’10.

• 15 albiongate // Apr 1, 2010 at 5:09 pm

  Bosnian Admir Sahbegovic (PF, 203, 1991, Engelwood HS, senior) has committed to Jacksonville.

  http://rivals.yahoo.com/michiganpreps/basketball/recruiting/player-Admir-Sahbegovic-90653

• 16 scotland basketball // Apr 18, 2010 at 1:10 pm

  Scotland lead the way in the UK with top college prospects Ali Fraser, Jonny Bunyan and Lee Rielly all outplaying their english counterparts in Cherbourg International Tournament – Fraser was the dominant centre with Bunyan the stand out point guard with Rielly the best two guard- Bunyan and Fraser born 1992 not only won double Scotish League and Cup titles with Fury Junior Men but with Clark Eriksson Fury senior men who they have started all season for
  defeated Edinburgh Kings to win the Scottish National Senior Mens Cup – Bunyan with 15 and Fraser with 14 . American Erik Olson hit 26 in the Final – check out Eurobasket website for Scotland/UK ‘s rising stars who are being recruited to the US

• 17 albiongate // Apr 22, 2010 at 2:30 pm

  Stefan Cvrkalj (G, 192, 1992, Bluevale HS) is being actively recruited by a handful of NCAA Division I schools including a pair of Ivy League schools (Princeton & Cornell), a trio of schools from the Patriot League (Bucknell, Lehigh, Lafayette) and a couple of schools from “power conferences” (Virginia out of the ACC & Stanford from the PAC 10).

  http://www.cwossabasketball.com/

  Stefan Jankovic (F, 210, 1993) is gaining recruiting attention from several high major college basketball programs. West Virginia University (Final 4 2010) is particulary interested.

  http://eersports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2308

  The University of Illinois is higly interested by Frank Kaminsky (C, 209, 1993, Benet Academy HS). Frank who is american from serbian descent also received substantial recruiting interest from Xavier and also plans on visiting the campuses of Wisconsin and Northwestern in the near future. Actually, Frank don’t have serbian citizenship but Serbian hoop program is keeping an eye on his improvement.

  http://ilprepbullseye.com/page39.html
  http://ilprepbullseye.com/page19.html

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• 19 Boris // Apr 22, 2010 at 8:25 pm

  Josip Mikulic (left from KK Siroki) 211 PF/C class 2012 from Croatia selected in Nike Team Florida 17U roster

  http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/basketball/mens/news/story?id=5067046

  Also one more Croatian playing in US high school. Bruno Beca C 210 94. (left from KK Dubrava)

  http://www.maxpreps.com/athletes/ZhT88z4LXEaS-xgZYmNCuQ/basketball-winter-09-10/profile-bruno-beca.htm

• 20 albiongate // Apr 25, 2010 at 6:53 pm

  Stojan Gjurovski (SF, 201, 1991) has commited to Louisiana Tech. Gjurovski was member of FYROM U16 NT in 2007.

  http://www.zagsblog.com/2010/04/25/laquinton-ross-spurring-major-interest/

• 21 juan cobos // May 3, 2010 at 8:44 pm

  san francisco signs marko petrovic.

• 22 juan cobos // May 22, 2010 at 8:24 pm

  Torgrin Sommerfeldt to Manhattan.

• 23 interested person // May 28, 2010 at 5:52 am

  is the new ncaa rule about foreign players official? the one that they can still play on a professional team if they did not make any money. can you please post some links about the rule etc.?

• 24 Christophe // May 28, 2010 at 6:31 am

  @interested person
  maybe this helps you http://www.europeanprospects.com/general-comments/no-more-suspensions-for-european-college-recruits/

• 25 euroballer // May 29, 2010 at 3:07 am

  @christophe
  Do you know how the ncaa finds out if the player actually made money? the team mangement could just lie to keep him there for example…

• 26 Christophe // May 29, 2010 at 10:56 am

  @euroballer
  If a player made money, he has normally a contract with the team. So if the team says, he made money, they should be able to proof it with a contract.

• 27 juan cobos // May 30, 2010 at 11:48 pm

  Dennis Kramer, a PF from Germany, a reserve on the U18 preliminary roster for this coming summers, will be playing for San Diego next year.

  He’s playing high school ball in the United States.

• 28 juan cobos // May 30, 2010 at 11:49 pm

  he’s not a reserve, my bad.

• 29 Christophe // Jun 1, 2010 at 7:22 pm

  @juan
  thx for the info on Dennis. He was selected for the German U18 team and participated to a camp in May.

• 30 juan cobos // Jun 7, 2010 at 12:45 am

  marco porcher, a spaniard from Oak Hill Academy to Fairleigh Dickinson

• 31 juan cobos // Jun 9, 2010 at 2:07 am

  Robert Gilchrist (ENG) will play for a JuCo (Polk State)

• 32 juan cobos // Jun 12, 2010 at 10:42 pm

  update:

  thomas laerke will play pro basketball in europe.
  dominikas milka will play for the college of st. rose (ncaa d2).
  ricmonds vilde committed to SMU.

• 33 t // Jun 12, 2010 at 11:21 pm

  Have you heard anything about CBA’s Michael Ocherobia?
  Why is there a delay getting him cleared by NCAA?

• 34 juan cobos // Jun 13, 2010 at 2:30 am

  Bradley has an offer out to 6-8, 250-pound Michael Ocherobia of the Canary Islands, but academic issues have delayed that process.

• 35 juan cobos // Jun 18, 2010 at 9:42 pm

  danish mathias salund ’90 to fdu and dutch kevin van wijk ’89 to valparaiso.

  salund was playing in denmark while van wijk was prepping at Canarias Academy after a long stint with the Gran Canaria youth teams.

• 36 juan cobos // Jun 18, 2010 at 9:45 pm

  mathias seilund, sorry.

• 37 Christophe // Jun 18, 2010 at 11:30 pm

  @juan
  thx for the updates

• 38 interested person // Jun 23, 2010 at 6:18 pm

  NBBL topscorer and German under 18 national team point guard from last season: Anthony Canty also interested on going to college. Here are some highlights:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVgX_P3nGRY

• 39 juan cobos // Jun 29, 2010 at 2:20 pm

  any offers yet?where will he play this coming season?

  Special interest in any particular school, conference or geographic area?

• 40 Christophe // Jun 29, 2010 at 7:06 pm

  @juan cobos
  @interested person

  As far as I know, Anthony Canty is only a 2011 recruit.

• 41 juan cobos // Jun 30, 2010 at 12:40 am

  Sam de Haas to St. Bonaventure. captain of netherlands u18 and top scorer a couple of years ago with the u16 NT at 19ppg

• 42 juan cobos // Jul 1, 2010 at 4:58 pm

  I’ve found out that Jonathan Gilling is considered a 2011 prospect.

• 43 SwissHoops Roger // Jul 25, 2010 at 2:21 am

  Hey Christophe !

  Here is a list of Swiss bball players who are playing abroad in the US.

  The 1st is Christophe Varidel 1990 6’2 , SG, Class of 2010 , who played this year at Worcester Academy in MA. He will be playing college for Florida Gulf Coast University NCAA 1

  The 2nd is Dusan Langura 1993 6’3, SG, Class of 2012 who will play this year in high school at Furtah Prep School near Atlanta, Ga. I heard he has already interests from LeHigh University and Texas A&M.

  The 3rd is Michel-Ofik Nzege 1992 6’6′, Forward, Class of 2011 who will play high school basketball this year in Orme School in Arizona. Some Universities made already interest for him like Virginia, Rider, St Peter’s

• 44 albiongate // Sep 16, 2010 at 4:36 pm

  Stefan Cvrkalj commits to LeHigh.
  http://www.cwossabasketball.com/2010/09/cvrkalj-verbally-commits-to-ncaa-d-1.html

• 45 An update on NCAA recruiting in Europe – EuropeanProspects.com // Oct 10, 2010 at 7:35 pm

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• 46 juan cobos // Oct 14, 2010 at 12:24 pm

  Hey, Christophe. I’ve found a new player.

  Eividas Pretulis, a 6’7”F from Lithuania (Marcioulonis Academy) is a FR this season at St Mary’s College in California.

  He was born in 1990.

• 47 juan cobos // Dec 8, 2010 at 2:29 am

  martynas bareika joined team now
  martin seiferth total 1p 4r
  petar torlak 3p 0’9a
  eividas petrulis to RS
  maxime chupin awaiting eligibility determination
  matthis moninhoff 6’1p 56%3p
  aaron geramipoor 0 games. back to uk with mononucleosis.
  daniel james hasn’t played
  enosch wolf set to enroll after winter break. might redshirt
  lukas winegarner 2’5p 2’5r
  sam de haas 1’3p 0’7r
  carl engstrom 0’7p 2’3r
  lee goldsbrough 0’8p 1’8r
  mathias seilund 6’8p 2’7r
  kevin van wijk 6’1p 3r (granted 3y, so he’s a sophomore)
  niels giffey 5’9p 2’1r
  Chris Czerapowicz and ali mackay haven’t played
  aksel bolin 3’8p 0’4r
  luka voncina Eligibility – out indefinitely
  Torgrim Sommerfeldt hasn’t played, knee injury
  patrick auda 1p 2’3r
  mathis keita 1’4p 0’8r
  dennis ogbe 2’4p 1’8r
  ali fraser 6’7p 3’8r 1’7b
  abdi ahmed left school
  tommy pereira 1’9p 46%3p
  justin raffington 2’7p 1’5r

  QUITE BAD SO FAR. scary…

  will take a look tomorrow to the usa-based.

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