Steve Forbes @ForbesNWFhoops
@FrankMartinKSU Congrats on the win over Mizzou!!!! Am I in charge of Figger tomorrow night???
underdog, are you aware of any nwf players kstate might be looking at?
I'm just guessing they may be looking at Rod Rucker (12 pts., 10 rebs) and/or laying groundwork on Chris Jones.
NWF is humming along right now at 25-1 and ranked 2nd in the country and it looks like their season has not been an accident as they have a multitude of prospects on their roster. They had 4 players on the JC Junction Top 150 for '12 and their 2 best prospects might be FR who aren't even on that list.
As Panj pointed out, 6'5" SO wing Rod Rucker, originally from GA, is certainly a candidate, he's NWF's leading rebounder at 10 per game, ranked 10th on JCJ's list. Another 6'5" SO wing, Neiko Hunter from AL, looks like a decent prospect, averaging 11.4 pts and 5.7 rebs, he's #48 on JCJ's list. I'd be kinda surprised to go after another big in this class but SO Shawn Jackson, 6'9" 260 PF-C, looks like another decent prospect, averaging 10.8 pts and 5 rebs, ranked 60th.
Then there's Chris Jones, bigtime player no doubt, but he's Class of '13 and I'm not sure we'd want to add another smallish, ball dominant PG who would be in the same class as Angel. A recent update from Zagsblog indicated he'd received interest from UCONN, Louisville, West Virginia, and Seton Hall. Not saying it would be impossible for us to recruit Jones, just don't know if he would be an absolute need for us given our roster setup.
Maybe the most intriguing prospect on NWF is 6'2" FR SG Trency Jackson, averaging 10.5 pts, 3 rebs, 1.3 stls, shooting 35% from 3 while making around 1.5 per game. Jackson is originally from MS and signed w/So. Miss out of HS and was in Class of '10. He wasn't able to qualify there and ended up RS'ing, then transferred to NWF. Besides So Miss, reported offers in HS were from Marquette, Missouri, Indiana, UAB, and USC. I couldn't find anything about his present recruitment and I'm not for certain if he'd be eligible to go back to DI in '12 or have to wait until '13.
He created a buzz last week with the dunk linked below
http://www.ballinisahabit.net/2012/02/posterized-someone-give-trency-jackson.html
