These are the 2 best recruits, then freshmen performers, that have been brought into Men's B-Ball in a while,,, in the iG's OHO. --> Both Alex and Tommy have said post-game, that they don’t care about personal accolade. When you get 6-8 guys on a team with that attitude, then you've got a good chance at winning.
#32 C/PF Alex Condon 6-10 230 *** (now 6-11 230) - Perth, Australia
#42 PF/C Tommy Haugh 6-9 200 *** (now 6-9 210) - New Oxford, PA
Note: The iG is looking forward to the return to the playing roster of Soph:
PF/C Aleks (Shimmy) Szymczyk 6-10 250 No Ranking - Germany
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Golden on Hovde’s role in evaluating and recruiting the freshmen:
“Terrible. No, he’s, Hovde has a great understanding of the game of basketball. You guys are gonna get to visit with him in a second, but I think, you know, he, along with the other guys on our staff from my direction, like, the rankings don’t mean anything. Obviously it gives us a good pool to evaluate from, but at the end of the day it’s not an exact science, right. The No. 1 guy isn’t necessarily going to be the No. 1 guy, the No. 15 guy, you know, there’s a lot of moving parts there, and we want to do a good job of evaluating and being on the right side of those, and I think with Tommy and Condo I think it’s proven that we were, with both of those guys being ranked where they were when we recruited them, and I think SG Isaiah Brown 6-5 185 *** is going to be another really good example of that when he gets to campus next fall.
Also coming out of HS early (a HS Jr) for 2024:
C Olivier Rioux 7-6 300 *** (not fat, just really freakin' BIG)
The Guinness Book of Records has him as the tallest male teenager in the world.
And as the iG has often said, STARS and outside rankings don't matter, but quality recruits/people do matter!
