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SoCalHoops Recruiting News

PacWestHoops Identifies
Top Soph Players--(Nov. 24, 1999)

Earlier this fall, we posted SoCalHoops' own lists of the "Best of the Best" players in Class of 2002. And whenever we come across other peoples lists and "rankings," we like to bring you the names of those SoCal players whom others believe are noteworthy. For example, we've noted those players listed (by position), at Dinos Trigonis' new site, Fullcourt Press, including the top sophomore players. We've republished (and categoriezed by position) Clark Francis' lists of the top players in California (with Clark's permission) which appear at his national recruiting site, the HoopScoop. We've also written about the Blue Ribbon Basketball Yearbook High School All-Americans, including among them about 18 sophomores from California. We've posted the top sophomore players as well at the Double Pump website from their California Cage Report. And if WestCoastHoops was still around, we'd be telling you about their selections too.

As the next closest thing to WCH, PacWestHoops' Tracy Pierson has previously posted listings and rankings of the top seniors and juniors, by position (links to these articles are right on the front page of PWH). Yesterday, PWH began posting their lists of the top players on the West Coast in the sophomore class. Like our own lists at SoCalHoops, Tracy has not "ranked" players by number; likewise, he's also made a point of saying that the PWH lists show the players in a completely random order, and with this we agree: These guys are all young, they'll grow and develop at varying rates, and to numerically rank them at this stage, wouldn't make much sense.

Thus far, PacWestHoops has listed only three positions in the class: The Top Soph PGs, SG's and SF's; we presume that they'll eventually get around to the other positions in the next day or two.

The complete PacWestHoops PG list can be found at this link for those who want to see all of the players listed from up and down the West Coast. Among those were the following 10 SoCal-based players (in alphabetical order):

Tim Drisdom, 6-3 Downey (CA) Cavalry Chapel
David Gale, 5-11 Sherman Oaks (CA) Buckley
Jamel Gay, 6-0 Compton (CA) Dominguez
Aaron Gipson, 5-8 Fontana (CA) High
Patrick Haddan, 6-1 Santa Ana (CA) Mater Dei
Keon Kindred, 6-1 Compton (CA) Dominguez
Franklin Matos, 6-4 Lakewood (CA) Artesia
Jason McKinney, 5-9 Los Angeles (CA) Westchester
Carlos Rivers, 5-10 Long Beach (CA) Poly
Will Sheslow, 5-11 Van Nuys (CA) Montclair Prep

The complete PacWestHoops SG list can be accessed if you want to see everyone they've listed. We've pulled out those from SoCal, and listed them below:

Evan Burns, 6-7 Los Angeles (CA) Fairfax
Geoffrey Clayton, 6-4 Anaheim (CA) Magnolia
Brandon Heath, 6-2 Los Angeles (CA) Westchester
Brandon Rohe, 6-3 Rancho Santa Margarita (CA) Santa Margarita
Leon Rosborough, 6-3 Moreno Valley (CA) Canyon Springs
Jon Steffanson, 6-4 Lakewood (CA) Artesia
Dino Wilburn, 6-2 Pasadena (CA) High
Donald Wilson, 6-3 Los Angeles (CA) Dorsey

The complete PacWestHoops SF list can be accessed for those who want to see all of the players they've selected from up and down the West Coast. Here are the 10 top SoCal-based players from that list, again in alphabetical order:

Sterling Burns, 6-4, Compton (CA) Centennial
Pete DeCases, 6-5 Capistrano Valley (CA) High
Kevin Edmunds, 6-7 Fountain Valley (CA) High
Keith Everage, 6-5 Los Angeles (CA) Westchester
Tye-Juan Hatter, 6-4 Upland (CA) High
Bobby Jones, 6-7 Compton (CA) Dominguez
Cory McJimson, 6-5 Fontana (CA) High
Jordan Rush, 6-4 Santa Monica (CA) Crossroads
Darius Sanders, 6-5 Compton (CA) Dominguez
Mike Strawberry, 6-4 Santa Ana (CA) Mater Dei