Edwards chooses PSU
Danny Morrissey and Jamelle Cornley won't be back at the BJC next season, but they can take comfort in the fact that yet another Ohioan will be donning the Blue and White.
That's because Middletown High School's Bill Edwards announced this morning that he'll be coming to Happy Valley in the fall, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
Edwards averaged 17 points and nine rebounds per game this season for Middletown.
Scout.com rates him as a two-star prospect who can play either the two or three spot.
The 6-foot-5, 225-pounder chose Penn State over Miami-OH and Central Florida, and will be one of five freshmen on the Nits' roster for the 2009-10 season. (That is, if you include Billy Oliver, who redshirted this past season).
I have got to say, this move perplexes me a little bit, as it will leave the Lions very thin up front.
They went after 6-foot-9 Philly product Markus Kennedy, but he committed to hometown Villanova last week.
The Lions are now out of scholarships to dish out for the next two seasons, unless a player is planning a transfer that nobody knows about.
This signing also minimizes the potential influence Taran Buie would have had on other recruits, particularly his AAU Albany City Rocks teammate, the 6-foot-8 Will Regan.
The Lions have already signed a pair of perimeter players in Tim Frazier and Jermaine Marshall, and the combo guard Buie will be on his way a year later.
The Lions struggled enough down low with Jamelle Cornley as their only real threat for much of the season (well, at least regular season).
But now with him gone, that will leave just the two Andrews, Jones and Ott, to man the paint for the next two seasons.
Jeff Brooks and incoming recruit Sasa Borovnjak are each 6-foot-8, but they both display too much finesse to warrant the labels of "Big Men."
Perhaps the wiry, 6-foot-8, 210-pound Oliver can make a splash down low, but that remains to be seen on this level.
This guard-oriented team will have to outpace the rest of its Big Ten brethren, which, come to think of it, wouldn't be such a bad thing.
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