Purdue offers Central sophomore basketball scholarship
By SCOTT DUNCAN ?
[email protected] ? August 14, 2008
Central sophomore Jeremiah Davis may end up with scholarship offers from all over the country before his college
basketball recruitment concludes. But should the Bearcat guard want to remain in the Hoosier State, he has a handful of options.
Already holding offers from in-state schools Ball State and Indiana University, Davis added an offer from Purdue University this week, receiving it from head coach Matt Painter via telephone.
Painter, a Muncie native and Delta High School graduate, had a chance to meet with Davis and his family when Davis went on an unofficial visit to the West Lafayette campus earlier in the summer.
Davis said on his visit to Purdue he met with the coaches, toured the campus and had a chance to play basketball with some of the Boilermaker players.
"I like Purdue a lot, the campus is great and I like Coach Painter," said Davis, who also holds an out-of-state offer from the University of Kentucky. "He's a really cool guy. He's from Muncie so that makes it even better."
According to Davis, he also is receiving interest from Arizona, Kansas, Nevada-Las Vegas, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Ohio State, Tennessee, West Virginia and Xavier.
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However, the first time I saw one of Matta's teams play was when he had X in the Elite Eight and he really only had one big man. Of course, that big man was West and he was there for four years.
