Recruiting - Hoops

Story on Cyrus McGowan choosing Arkansas....... Here's a look at some of the recruiting visits scheduled on the national scene, including Austin Jackson to GT this weekend.

Here's a look at the some of the 2006 recruits Duke is looking at, some of which overlap with GT. One of those is Lance Thomas:

One of those recruits, power forward Lance Thomas, has earned rave reviews for his maturity on and off the court.

“If he wants something, he’s going to work at it and that goes into the classroom, too,” said Dan Doherty, Thomas’ former coach at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School. “I’ve had [North Carolina State coach Herb Sendek] say he’d never seen a kid work like that.”

That attitude has propelled Thomas into the upper echelon of recruits, with a long scholarship offer list that includes Arizona, Connecticut, Wake Forest, Kansas and Georgia Tech, which called Doherty the day after the national championship game to offer him a scholarship. Despite his long list of suitors, however, several schools do appear to stand out in his recruitment.

“I know Arizona was always his school that he rooted for when he was younger, and I think [he favors] Georgia Tech and Wake Forest more because of the amount of time they put into him,” Doherty said. “After his freshman year... I asked him, ‘Lance, pick any school you want to go to,’ and he did say Duke at that time.”