'08 OH C Kenny Frease (Xavier Signee)

[OregonBuckeye]

That should keep Sean Miller around.

 

[osugrad21]

That should keep Sean Miller around.

I think that was already a done deal:

Miller, whose name has been linked in the past week to open coaching jobs at Minnesota, Michigan and South Florida, signed a new contract with Xavier Thursday that lasts through the 2015-16 season.
Xavier did not disclose the terms, but athletic director Mike Bobinski confirmed that the new deal made Miller the highest-paid coach in the Atlantic 10 Conference

 

[gold_pants]

Still amazes me...I mean Kenny is a phenomenal talent and I would have been swearing at Obie for missing on a kid like this but with Thad he only gets a quick look from the Bucks.

 

[LitlBuck]

Cincy

Frease commits to Musketeers
Third recruit from class of 2008
BY DUSTIN DOW | [email protected]

Kenny Frease, a 6-foot-11 center regarded among the top 10 big men in the country in the class of 2008, called Xavier coach Sean Miller Tuesday night.
"I told him, I want to be Xavier's Greg Oden," Frease said.
quote]

Whoa Kenny you are not quite in that league yet.

 

[osugrad21]

Canton

X marks the spot for Frease
Thursday, March 29, 2007
By Todd Porter
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

PERRY TWP. For the last three years, Xavier University basketball Coach Sean Miller has recruited 7-footer Kenny Frease. It took the charismatic head coach 25 minutes to seal the deal late Tuesday.

Frease, who just finished his junior season at Perry High School, verbally committed to Miller at around 11 p.m. Tuesday. It wasn?t just that conversation that helped the All-Ohioan make up his mind. It wasn?t Xavier?s narrow loss to Ohio State in the NCAA Tournament. It wasn?t Miller?s contract extension through 2016 at the private Cincinnati school.

It was everything.

Cont...

 

[osugrad21]

ABJ

PERRY 7-FOOTER READY TO GO

By David Lee Morgan Jr.

Beacon Journal sportswriter

With all the adversity Perry basketball standout Kenny Frease faced this past season, he learned one thing: look to the future.
For Frease, a 7-foot junior who was a Division I third-team all-state selection, the future is this weekend, when he'll compete in the second annual Papa John's King James Shooting Stars Classic.
The tournament will feature 465 boys teams (ages 10-17) from all over the country competing at gymnasiums around Greater Akron.

Cont...

 

[osugrad21]

Canton

Frease travels the world
document.title = "Frease travels the world";Sunday, June 24, 2007
SUNDAY SPECIAL BY TODD PORTER

t?s summer, and Kenny Frease is on vacation.

Some vacation for Perry High School?s 7-foot center.

Frease, who has verbally committed to play basketball at Xavier University, spent 12 days playing in Italy, then stayed up for nearly 30 hours in flying to Virginia for the NBA Players Association top 100 high school camp.

But he is holding his own.

Cont...

 

[osugrad21]

Canton

Frease signs letter to play for Xavier
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Perry High School senior Kenny Frease (left) watches as his mother, Marge, adds her name to his national letter of intent to play Division I basketball at Xavier University. The 7-foot center was one of many Stark County student-athletes who accepted scholarships Wednesday on national signing day. Photo by Repository Ray Stewart

 

[BGriffBuckeye]

With B.J. likely to only stay a year or 2, I would have liked to seen the staff go after Kenny for 2008 (unless, of course, we just didn't have room) as another big body downlow. Another 7 footer who is very tough on the court, a good defender and rebounder as well.

 

[bucksfan987]

I saw Frease play in a preview, wow has he come along as a player. This is the first time I have seen him play in a while and he has improved so much. It's so amazing how kids like Mullens and Frease take critism at the begining of their high school careers, but big man truely develop later. Frease and Mullens are both beasts. I would have loved to seen them side by side in the paint.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Canton

Star of Stark?s show
Monday, November 19, 2007
STORY By JOSH WEIR
Repository sports writer

REPOSITORY FILE PHOTO BOB ROSSITER
NUMBERS GAME Perry center Kenny Frease averaged 15.0 points and 8.8 rebounds while being limited by injuries to 12 games last season.​

PERRY TWP. Kenny Frease has a best-seller in mind. Not that the Perry High School 7-footer wants to read it. ?I don?t think you could have written a better story, or worse,? said Frease, one of the nation?s top-ranked big men in the 2008 class. ?If someone told me a story like that, I?d say no way that all happens to one person.?

Frease lived it. A wrist injury robbed him of nine games his junior year. In his fourth game back, Frease suffered a broken orbital bone from a controversial blow delivered by Central Catholic?s Cory Berry. The injury was severe enough that Frease?s basketball future was questioned.

Continued...

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

Frease scored 15 points in a 58-54 loss to Reyonldsburg.

 

[bucksfan987]

That is Perry's girls team, it must be his sister.

 

[JohnnyCockfight]

That is Perry's girls team, it must be his sister.

Nope. OSUBballJunkie got it right. Confirming info, different source:

The Perry Panthers seemed to have their season opener in hand midway through the fourth quarter at Reynoldsburg on Friday night. However, the Raiders got hot over the last half of the quarter to pull out a 58-54 victory over the Panthers.

Kenny Frease led Perry with 15 points.

 

[bucksfan987]

He did have another post up saying 6 against Mayfield. You are right the stats vs. Renoyldsburg is correct.