Zena Edosomwan - PF - Harvard Westlake - North Hollywood, CA - HARVARD

When Lavin was at UCLA remember him competing with world for recruits, but never did I imagine him at SJU competing with Havard for a recruit. Live long enough and you'll see the damnest things.

3.4 definately good enough to get into Harvard if you are a basketball recruit.  Easy!  Harvard was the first to relax admission standards ever so slightly for bball, under Amaker as coach.  One of the reasons Syndey Johnson left Princeton for Fairfield was because he was continually butting heads with admissions over recruits that could get into Harvard but not Princeton.

Averaging 17 points, 12 rebounds and 4 blocks.

He is 104-199 in free throws.

http://www.maxpreps.com/athletes/jH5GN6n_O0qWRqlT0dJ04g/basketball-winter-11-12/stats-zena-edosomwan.htm

Edosomwan is Nigerian.  If we land him and Obekpa, between the men's and women's teams we'll have 5 Nigerians, enough to represent Nigeria at the Co-Ed Olympics.

Edosomwan is Nigerian.  If we land him and Obekpa, between the men's and women's teams we'll have 5 Nigerians, enough to represent Nigeria at the Co-Ed Olympics.

Take a good listen to Edosomwan's video interview.  He's sooo far removed from Nigeria it's not even funny.  The kid sounds like when Dave Chapelle makes fun of white people.

Quote from: Lapchick65 on February 16, 2012, 08:03:52 AM

Edosomwan is Nigerian.  If we land him and Obekpa, between the men's and women's teams we'll have 5 Nigerians, enough to represent Nigeria at the Co-Ed Olympics.

Take a good listen to Edosomwan's video interview.  He's sooo far removed from Nigeria it's not even funny.  The kid sounds like when Dave Chapelle makes fun of white people.

Edosomwan is Nigerian.  If we land him and Obekpa, between the men's and women's teams we'll have 5 Nigerians, enough to represent Nigeria at the Co-Ed Olympics.

He's also originally from Houston like 3'Angelo and Branch.

Below is a link to an article which explains the Ivy Academic Index:

http://www.montclairkimberley.org/uploaded/college_counseling/Publications/AI_Guidelines_Worksheet.pdf

Hopefully this is an old interview that wasn't posted until the 25th. but if the interview was on the 25th we are out with this kid based on this question and answer.

3. Do you have a top 5-10 list of schools?

Edosomwan: UCLA, USC, HARVARD, CAL, Washington and Texas.

http://www.premierball.com/questions-answers-w-2012-zena-edosomwan/

Hopefully this is an old interview that wasn't posted until the 25th. but if the interview was on the 25th we are out with this kid based on this question and answer.

3. Do you have a top 5-10 list of schools?

Edosomwan: UCLA, USC, HARVARD, CAL, Washington and Texas.

http://www.premierball.com/questions-answers-w-2012-zena-edosomwan/

Strange that he doesn't mention us, it's also clear that he has a type of profile he's looking for in a school.  And we really don't fit the criteria. 

He's looking at schools with some of the best academic reputations and that have campuses the size of a medium size city.   

When Lavin was at UCLA remember him competing with world for recruits, but never did I imagine him at SJU competing with Havard for a recruit. Live long enough and you'll see the damnest things.

At UCLA it was competing with Princeton.    He won AND lost with the same player - Spencer Gloger.  Spencer signed Grant-in-Aid with UCLA, but after 3 weeks of school, transferred to Princeton.  Sat out his Xfer year there, and was Ivy "newcomer of the year".  He played two years, then came BACK to UCLA, then again transferred back to Princeton for his senior year, never playing for the Bruins.  He was all IVY his Senior year, and has had a terrific Euro career since.   A virtual clone of Jason Kapono.      I think even most UCLA fans don't realize what a loss he was.     

Spencer Gloger

Quote from: 96 Schermerhorn Street on February 13, 2012, 12:54:31 PM

When Lavin was at UCLA remember him competing with world for recruits, but never did I imagine him at SJU competing with Havard for a recruit. Live long enough and you'll see the damnest things.

At UCLA it was competing with Princeton.    He won AND lost with the same player - Spencer Gloger.  Spencer signed Grant-in-Aid with UCLA, but after 3 weeks of school, transferred to Princeton.  Sat out his Xfer year there, and was Ivy "newcomer of the year".  He played two years, then came BACK to UCLA, then again transferred back to Princeton for his senior year, never playing for the Bruins.  He was all IVY his Senior year, and has had a terrific Euro career since.   A virtual clone of Jason Kapono.      I think even most UCLA fans don't realize what a loss he was.     

Spencer Gloger

A princeton degree didnt help him if hes playing BB. Who knows ,if he went to UCLA and had the better coaching and compitition maybe hed be in the NBA. Although ,I dont know much about him,

Quote from: crgreen on March 02, 2012, 01:46:37 PM

Quote from: 96 Schermerhorn Street on February 13, 2012, 12:54:31 PM

When Lavin was at UCLA remember him competing with world for recruits, but never did I imagine him at SJU competing with Havard for a recruit. Live long enough and you'll see the damnest things.

At UCLA it was competing with Princeton.    He won AND lost with the same player - Spencer Gloger.  Spencer signed Grant-in-Aid with UCLA, but after 3 weeks of school, transferred to Princeton.  Sat out his Xfer year there, and was Ivy "newcomer of the year".  He played two years, then came BACK to UCLA, then again transferred back to Princeton for his senior year, never playing for the Bruins.  He was all IVY his Senior year, and has had a terrific Euro career since.   A virtual clone of Jason Kapono.      I think even most UCLA fans don't realize what a loss he was.     

Spencer Gloger

A princeton degree didnt help him if hes playing BB. Who knows ,if he went to UCLA and had the better coaching and compitition maybe hed be in the NBA. Although ,I dont know much about him,

Gloger got great coaching at Princeton, but you're right about the competition.

“@EvanDanielscout: Big news. Zena Edosomwan reclassing & off the board to Harvard. Check out @JoshGershon's story. Great stuff.”

“@EvanDanielscout: Big news. Zena Edosomwan reclassing & off the board to Harvard. Check out @JoshGershon's story. Great stuff.”

reclassing?

That is interesting.  Interesting that he would reclassify and drop Harvard.  I could see him doing a prep to try and qualify at Harvard.  A lot of the Ivy lax programs do that with kids that can't qualify.  They will go do PG years at Deerfield, Choate, etc and then try to get accepted.

He didnt drop Harvard, he committed to Harvard and will prep in Mass.

he made the right choice. if you have the opportunity to attend the best school in the world, you do whatever you can to get there.  smart kid.

He didnt drop Harvard, he committed to Harvard and will prep in Mass.

Correct

He didnt drop Harvard, he committed to Harvard and will prep in Mass.

Ah ok, that makes total sense.  Are they promising him admission, or does he has to meet certain requirements?