http://www.nbebasketball.com/w3/2010-1012/class-of-2013-intro-isaiah-lewis/One of the names in the Class of 2013 getting a lot of attention is Christ the King HS point guard Isaiah Lewis. After a strong summer period on the AAU circuit with Jim Hart’s City Rocks program out of Albany (NY), Lewis has seen his recruitment take a dramatic upswing. The current sophomore has embarked on several unofficial visits and has more planned in the coming weeks, including a likely stop at a Big East school this Friday for Midnight Madness festivities.
“Yes, I’m going to Villanova Midnight Madness or St. John’s Midnight Madness,” Lewis told NBE on Sunday night. “I haven’t made my mind [up] yet, but I will be at one of those Friday. Most likely ‘Nova though.”
The 6-foot-3, 160 pound point guard has already made unofficial visits to both Big East programs previously as part of his college campus tour in recent months.
“I’ve made unofficials to Seton Hall, Pittsburgh, Villanova and St. John’s,” said Lewis on Friday.
Lewis also hopes to find his way to Arizona, UCLA, Miami, Florida and North Carolina this year for unofficial visits as he continues his aggressive visit schedule.
“The highlights of all the visits I’ve been to so far was that all four programs show strong intrest in me as a sophomore are all great programs that produce NBA players,” said Lewis of his previous four visits to the BiG East programs mentioned above.
All in all, the list of schools Lewis is hearing from is quite impressive as he mentioned to NBE that Kentucky, North Carolina, Miami, Connecticut, Villanova, St. John’s, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Arizona, Oklahoma State, Florda, UCLA, USC, South Florida, Seton Hall, South Carolina, Pittsburgh and Texas are recruiting him with several offers already being extended.
“Schools that offerd are Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Oregon State, Arkansas, Oklahoma State [and] Baylor,” said Lewis.
While he has no favorites at this time, Lewis is putting in the work at improving his game, getting stronger and rounding out his skills as a lead guard.
“Goals for this season for me is to become more vocal and to keep working on my point guard skills,” said Lewis. “My strengths right now are being able to score anywhere on the court and also in the open court. I spend alot of time getting bigger, I’m still growing so I don’t know how tall I’m going to be so I’m just trying to get bigger and stronger for college.”
Already seeing a tremendous amount of college interest from top programs, Isaiah Lewis is a player for fans to know in the Class of 2013. Coming from the legendary Christ the King HS program in New York City and running with the City Rocks AAU program, there will be plenty of chances to follow his high school career and you can be certain plenty of college coaches will be there watching as well.