@jeffborzello: ICYMI: Five-star point guard Alterique Gilbert committed to UConn. Complete story with quotes: http://t.co/TRgovtRhIA …

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Wow!!!!

Good job.

Uconn is gonna be a beast again. Maybe we can challenge you in womens bball cause mens is gonna be painful again this year.

UConn fans are calling this the Summer of Ollie.

Every week seems to have a new recruit.

PF Shonn Miller (grad transfer Cornell)
PG Sterling Gibbs (grad transfer Seton Hall)
PF-C Mamadou Diarra (New York City, top 100, underrated)
SF Terry Larrier (frosh transfer VCU, from NYC, 2015 top 50 4-5 star)
PG Alterique Gilbert (Georgia, 2016 top 25)

5 kids in about a month.

UConn is about to close out 2016 recruiting with 2 more players it is heavy on.

Top 25 SG Hamidou Diallo (New York City, best friends with Diarra, same school)
Top 50-75 SF Brendan Bailey (Utah, Thurl Bailey's kid, battling it out with Gonzaga and Arizona)

After that, UConn does have a scholarship if there's a late developing big man out there who wouldn't mind sitting a year behind their upper class big man (Brimah).

So far, Ollie has shown that he is a lights out recruiter.

Congrats UConn and UConn fans.

Great commitment.

Memphis could certainly use a signee like him.

great get

(07-04-2015 10:01 AM)upstater1 Wrote:  UConn fans are calling this the Summer of Ollie.

Every week seems to have a new recruit.

PF Shonn Miller (grad transfer Cornell)
PG Sterling Gibbs (grad transfer Seton Hall)
PF-C Mamadou Diarra (New York City, top 100, underrated)
SF Terry Larrier (frosh transfer VCU, from NYC, 2015 top 50 4-5 star)
PG Alterique Gilbert (Georgia, 2016 top 25)

5 kids in about a month.

UConn is about to close out 2016 recruiting with 2 more players it is heavy on.

Top 25 SG Hamidou Diallo (New York City, best friends with Diarra, same school)
Top 50-75 SF Brendan Bailey (Utah, Thurl Bailey's kid, battling it out with Gonzaga and Arizona)

After that, UConn does have a scholarship if there's a late developing big man out there who wouldn't mind sitting a year behind their upper class big man (Brimah).

So far, Ollie has shown that he is a lights out recruiter.

If I was a young recruit, I'd run through a brick wall to play for Ollie. His success is understandable.

The fact that Uconn isnt in the ACC is still one of the great mystery's to me. They should kick out Boston College just to get Uconn... though I do love having them with us.

(07-04-2015 10:02 AM)oldtiger Wrote:  Congrats UConn and UConn fans.

Great commitment.

Memphis could certainly use a signee like him.

Yep, good job UConn.

That said, I think we'll be solid with Johnson and Tarrant running point...Nichols, Goodwin, and the Lawson's down low.

(07-04-2015 10:38 AM)mtmedlin Wrote:  The fact that Uconn isnt in the ACC is still one of the great mystery's to me. They should kick out Boston College just to get Uconn... though I do love having them with us.

The "football" schools (Miami, FSU, GT, Clemson) didn't want us.

Good get. Btw, he is listed as a 4* player on ESPN, Scout, 247 and Rivals. So he is no Tacko.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/alterique-gilbert

The conference has had some legitimate recruiting. This is good.

(07-04-2015 12:11 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  Good get. Btw, he is listed as a 4* player on ESPN, Scout, 247 and Rivals. So he is no Tacko.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/alterique-gilbert

Your info is kinda old.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basket...errankings

5-star #23 in the country

(07-04-2015 12:42 PM)upstater1 Wrote:  

(07-04-2015 12:11 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  Good get. Btw, he is listed as a 4* player on ESPN, Scout, 247 and Rivals. So he is no Tacko.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/alterique-gilbert

Your info is kinda old.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basket...errankings

5-star #23 in the country

Thanks. But he is still no Tacko.

Is he at least a Taquito?

UC's 2016 basketball class is sitting at #7 nationally right now on 247. Granted, long way to go, but we aren't done yet either.

Nice to see some big time kids coming in for multiple teams...will make the conference games more fun to watch.

Awesome get... Congrats UConn

F*** UConn there costing me 50 grand next year for my daughters tuition

(07-04-2015 12:11 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  Good get. Btw, he is listed as a 4* player on ESPN, Scout, 247 and Rivals. So he is no Tacko.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/alterique-gilbert

He'll be down to 3 stars now that he's committed to UConn. If he committed to Duke or Kentucky he'd be upgraded to 5 stars. That's how it seems to work.