Caught this little nugget from a report on the Reebok Camp.
Pitt’s Jamie Dixon and Boston College’s Al Skinner watched Teeng Akol in the morning along with assistants from DePaul, Florida, St. John’s and Georgetown.
Akol, is without a doubt, very raw. He came to the US from Sudan in 2005. He’s also 6′ 10″ and apparently loaded with potential. Scout.com considers him a 4-star, 30th best PF prospect. Rivals.com is higher on him. They put him as the 48th best overall prospect and 14th best PF prospect. Lots of teams interested including Kentucky, Maryland, UConn and Cinci; but it doesn’t appear anyone has actually offered him yet. Not surprising since Pitt is in pursuit of kids like Beasley, Patterson and Vaughn who also play the PF position and are much more advanced in their game.
Here’s another player drawing some interest from Pitt.
Blake Hoffarber said he has around 20 offers from mid-major schools and picked up free rides from Cincinnati, Rutgers and Washington State since the ABCD camp while Indiana, Iowa, Iowa State and Pitt have also shown interest since then.
Hoffarber is a shooting guard from Minnesota. He’s listed as about a 3-star recruit, left-handed, good range and an excellent free throw shooter.
I’m not sure if their damning another potential Pitt recruit with faint praise or what?
Bradley Wannamaker, 2007 – Here is a guy with a great future ahead of him somewhere in the Atlantic 10. The Philly guard can dial it up from deep and he has a body that can take the banging when driving into the paint for buckets. Against the Mean Streets crew, Wannamaker made sure he wasn’t left out of the compliment party for the guards. He finished with a hard earned 22.
Pitt showed some interest in him at the ABCD camp earlier in the month. He still hasn’t received a major offer yet.
If you can’t get enough of reading about how sordid and just generally creepy AAU and summer league basketball can get, this series of articles — Part 1, 2 and 3 (via Big East Basketball Blog) — is must read stuff.
UPDATE (2:52 PM): Damn. Here’s some more about Hoffarber. He’s the same kid who shot a desperation shot from his ass a couple years ago in a Minnesota HS championship game.
