Shamorie Ponds commits to St. John's!!!!!!

[OmahaGuy]

Congrats to Mullin and the St. John's faithful on the pickup! This St. John's staff can FLAT OUT get players and if they can develop them (so far everything from what I've seen says they will), St. John's will become a BEAST. I've always known that SJU was a sleeping giant. Now I think the staff will turn to Rawle Alkins. As conference fans, no matter who we side with, we all must cheer on our fellow conference mates to pick these highly touted kids up. Our conference still has so many haters to prove wrong.

[Jet915]

Get Rawle or Thon and this class will be HUGE.

[warriorfan4life]

Great pick-up for the Johnnies. I think an ever bigger statement is that a consensus top 50 player had three Big East schools as finalists, and turned away late interest from Arizona to decide between St. John's and Providence.

[RedStormHoops]

Thanks for all the support. As for what's next for St. John's, I think Basir Ahmed, a big time JUCO who Louisville is after, is what the staff really wants next. He was on campus this past weekend, worked out with the team, and hung out at Dribble For the Cure, a fun event St. John's university has every year.

Another guy St. John's is after is Mitchell Lightfoot, a guy who is 99th in the ESPN 100, visits St. John's this weekend. He is the top player in Arizona and already has an Arizona offer, so it will probably be hard to pry him away from there. But he does visit.

Shamorie is a great pickup, and as of now it looks like he joins Kassoum Yakwe for the 2016 class (last I've heard is Yakwe will play as a freshmen in 2016). Ponds said he has started to text Rawle Alkins about coming to SJU, but i am hesitant to get excited with Rawle playing ball in North Carolina this year. As for Thon, we will see how that develops.

[Rum_Ham]

Thanks for all the support. As for what's next for St. John's, I think Basir Ahmed, a big time JUCO who Louisville is after, is what the staff really wants next. He was on campus this past weekend, worked out with the team, and hung out at Dribble For the Cure, a fun event St. John's university has every year.

Another guy St. John's is after is Mitchell Lightfoot, a guy who is 99th in the ESPN 100, visits St. John's this weekend. He is the top player in Arizona and already has an Arizona offer, so it will probably be hard to pry him away from there. But he does visit.

Shamorie is a great pickup, and as of now it looks like he joins Kassoum Yakwe for the 2016 class (last I've heard is Yakwe will play as a freshmen in 2016). Ponds said he has started to text Rawle Alkins about coming to SJU, but i am hesitant to get excited with Rawle playing ball in North Carolina this year. As for Thon, we will see how that develops.

Bashir Ahmed would be a huge pickup he may be the best JUCO in the country. Also St John's has an assistant in Germany visiting Richard Freudenberg who is ranked top 50 by 247. Looks like the johnnies are shaping up to have a top 10 class.

[stever20]

Thanks for all the support. As for what's next for St. John's, I think Basir Ahmed, a big time JUCO who Louisville is after, is what the staff really wants next. He was on campus this past weekend, worked out with the team, and hung out at Dribble For the Cure, a fun event St. John's university has every year.

Another guy St. John's is after is Mitchell Lightfoot, a guy who is 99th in the ESPN 100, visits St. John's this weekend. He is the top player in Arizona and already has an Arizona offer, so it will probably be hard to pry him away from there. But he does visit.

Shamorie is a great pickup, and as of now it looks like he joins Kassoum Yakwe for the 2016 class (last I've heard is Yakwe will play as a freshmen in 2016). Ponds said he has started to text Rawle Alkins about coming to SJU, but i am hesitant to get excited with Rawle playing ball in North Carolina this year. As for Thon, we will see how that develops.

Yakwe is on the roster this season:
http://www.redstormsports.com/sports/m- ... l-mtt.html

tough to see Yakwe reclassifying into 2015 class, but then redshirting. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

[RedStormHoops]

Thanks for all the support. As for what's next for St. John's, I think Basir Ahmed, a big time JUCO who Louisville is after, is what the staff really wants next. He was on campus this past weekend, worked out with the team, and hung out at Dribble For the Cure, a fun event St. John's university has every year.

Another guy St. John's is after is Mitchell Lightfoot, a guy who is 99th in the ESPN 100, visits St. John's this weekend. He is the top player in Arizona and already has an Arizona offer, so it will probably be hard to pry him away from there. But he does visit.

Shamorie is a great pickup, and as of now it looks like he joins Kassoum Yakwe for the 2016 class (last I've heard is Yakwe will play as a freshmen in 2016). Ponds said he has started to text Rawle Alkins about coming to SJU, but i am hesitant to get excited with Rawle playing ball in North Carolina this year. As for Thon, we will see how that develops.

Yakwe is on the roster this season:
http://www.redstormsports.com/sports/m- ... l-mtt.html

tough to see Yakwe reclassifying into 2015 class, but then redshirting. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

As of now insiders at SJU think he won't qualify for this season yea he's on the roster now but we've been told that won't stick hopefully that's not the case

[NJRedman]

Thanks for all the support. As for what's next for St. John's, I think Basir Ahmed, a big time JUCO who Louisville is after, is what the staff really wants next. He was on campus this past weekend, worked out with the team, and hung out at Dribble For the Cure, a fun event St. John's university has every year.

Another guy St. John's is after is Mitchell Lightfoot, a guy who is 99th in the ESPN 100, visits St. John's this weekend. He is the top player in Arizona and already has an Arizona offer, so it will probably be hard to pry him away from there. But he does visit.

Shamorie is a great pickup, and as of now it looks like he joins Kassoum Yakwe for the 2016 class (last I've heard is Yakwe will play as a freshmen in 2016). Ponds said he has started to text Rawle Alkins about coming to SJU, but i am hesitant to get excited with Rawle playing ball in North Carolina this year. As for Thon, we will see how that develops.

Yakwe is on the roster this season:
http://www.redstormsports.com/sports/m- ... l-mtt.html

tough to see Yakwe reclassifying into 2015 class, but then redshirting. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

As of now insiders at SJU think he won't qualify for this season yea he's on the roster now but we've been told that won't stick hopefully that's not the case

I hate when people say "insiders" on message boards. It's usually never what actually happens.

[Chalmers0]

Thanks for all the support. As for what's next for St. John's, I think Basir Ahmed, a big time JUCO who Louisville is after, is what the staff really wants next. He was on campus this past weekend, worked out with the team, and hung out at Dribble For the Cure, a fun event St. John's university has every year.

Another guy St. John's is after is Mitchell Lightfoot, a guy who is 99th in the ESPN 100, visits St. John's this weekend. He is the top player in Arizona and already has an Arizona offer, so it will probably be hard to pry him away from there. But he does visit.

Shamorie is a great pickup, and as of now it looks like he joins Kassoum Yakwe for the 2016 class (last I've heard is Yakwe will play as a freshmen in 2016). Ponds said he has started to text Rawle Alkins about coming to SJU, but i am hesitant to get excited with Rawle playing ball in North Carolina this year. As for Thon, we will see how that develops.

Yakwe is on the roster this season:
http://www.redstormsports.com/sports/m- ... l-mtt.html

tough to see Yakwe reclassifying into 2015 class, but then redshirting. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Being listed on the roster basically just means that he has been admitted to the school, doesn't necessarily mean he has passed through the clearinghouse which I think is still an obstacle.

[stever20]

article about Diallo from the same school as Yakwe...
http://m.cjonline.com/sports/hawkzone/2 ... #gsc.tab=0

Could be a while before we know the final result.