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Post by pj on Nov 10, 2020 17:59:40 GMT -5
Go!!!
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Post by Aggie One on Nov 10, 2020 18:00:51 GMT -5
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Post by Aggie One on Nov 10, 2020 18:36:38 GMT -5
ESPN Four Star Duncan Powell commits to HBCU HBCUGameday
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Post by Striktly on Nov 10, 2020 19:45:46 GMT -5
Great birthday present for coach!
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Post by aggie2039 on Nov 10, 2020 20:11:43 GMT -5
BySteven J. GaitherPosted on November 10, 2020 COMMENTSUse your ← → (arrow) keys to browse HBCUS HAVE BEEN ON POWELL’S MIND HBCUs have received increased visibility with high profile recruits over recent months. Top sophomore Mikey Williams has multiple HBCUs in his top ten. Howard actually landed a five-star recruit in Makur Maker. But don’t think that Powell is following anyone’s lead. “I’ve been thinking about that since I was in like seventh or eighth grade,” Duncan Powell said about attending an HBCU. “It recently became a trending topic to talk about going to HBCUs, but back in eighth grade I would say ‘I might mess around and go to Southern or Prairie View.” He didn’t end up at either of those SWAC schools, and he won’t be playing in the MEAC, either. Powell’s first season will coincide with A&T’s move to the Big South Conference in the fall of 2021. Earlier this year head coach Will Jones told HBCU Gameday he hoped the move to the Big South would allow A&T to get a higher-caliber player out of high school. “We’re gonna continue to recruit JUCOs and transfers when we can but we’re really focusing our efforts on going out and trying to sign some of the better high school players in the country and we’re going to a league that’s going to allow us to do that,” Jones told us in the spring. Powell told us that the family ties and comfort had a bigger impact, but did acknowledge it helped. “I know the Big South is much better with competition in basketball,” he said. “It’s a higher level conference in the eyes of the NCAA. So that plays a role.”
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Post by Aggie One on Nov 10, 2020 20:38:39 GMT -5
Good article on how A&T went about recruiting him and his mindset for next season.
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Post by Aggie One on Nov 10, 2020 21:35:48 GMT -5
N.C. A&T gets commitment from top-100 basketball player By Joe Sirera Duncan Powell, a power forward from DeSoto, Texas, is the No. 85 player in the ESPN100 for the Class of 2021. He averaged 21 points, eight rebounds and five assists as a junior.GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T is the latest HBCU to make a splash in college basketball recruiting. Barely four months after five-star forward Makur Maker picked Howard, the Aggies received a commitment Tuesday from ESPN100 power forward Duncan Powell of DeSoto, Texas.
Powell told Jeff Goodman, a basketball analyst at Stadium, that the key to his decision was his relationship with A&T coach Will Jones and assistant coach Ahmad Dorsett.
"When I went to campus it felt like the right fit," Powell told Goodman. "I'm from Dallas, but I was born in Conover, North Carolina, so it's not but an hour and a half from the crib. And then my cousin went there, Adrian Powell. He was on the (2013 NCAA) Tournament team with them and it's a lot of connections and ties there."
Powell, ranked No. 85 in the Class of 2021 by ESPN and No. 17 at his position, chose the Aggies from a group of finalists that also included Hampton, Dayton, Old Dominion and Texas-San Antonio. The 6-foot-8, 220-pound four-star recruit committed to Arkansas on Sept. 26, 2019, over offers from Mississippi and TCU among others, but reopened his recruitment in April.
He is believed to be the highest-rated recruit in the N.C. A&T program's history.
For the rest of the story: greensboro.com/sports/college/ncat/n-c-a-t-gets-commitment-from-top-100-basketball-player/article_95ad4326-23a2-11eb-a68b-affc9e6dedf8.html
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Post by durhamgsoaggie on Nov 11, 2020 15:40:23 GMT -5
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Post by aggie62 on Nov 11, 2020 18:08:14 GMT -5
Welcome to Aggie Land and I look forward to seeing Duncan playing in an Aggie uniform...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2020 18:24:01 GMT -5
We have a top 100 recruiting class according to 247 Sports
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Post by aggie2039 on Nov 11, 2020 18:58:45 GMT -5
We have a top 100 recruiting class according to 247 Sports Link?
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Post by durhamgsoaggie on Nov 11, 2020 20:35:42 GMT -5
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Post by Maxell on Nov 11, 2020 20:57:57 GMT -5
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Post by durhamgsoaggie on Nov 23, 2020 21:59:03 GMT -5
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