• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

OSU Women's Basketball Recruiting/Projections/General Discussions

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
OSU_D/

OSU_D/

COYBIG, COYG
I didn't see a recruiting thread for women, so I thought I would start one. Feel free to merge if necessary but I feel this is a different conversation than that which takes place in a coach's thread.

Marcus Hartman ‏@marcushartman 31m
I'm told new OSU coach Kevin McGuff has personally taken over recruitment of top-30 prospects Mitchell, Waterman and Westbeld

Marcus Hartman ‏@marcushartman 32m
Of course you kind of have to do that when you don't have a staff in place yet, but his efforts have been noticed nonetheless
 
Courtesy of BayBuck!

http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2013/04/21/mcguff-already-working-on-recruits.html

"I know of him," Reynoldsburg High School coach Jack Purtell said on Thursday. "He called me last night. You could hear the excitement in his voice with having the opportunity to be at Ohio State and to lead the program."

McGuff is a native of Hamilton, north of Cincinnati, who coached Xavier for nine seasons before taking the Washington job two years ago. Purtell hasn?t met him because he had never coached a player that interested McGuff in his Xavier years. That has changed.

"We have one of the top juniors in the country right now in Alyssa Rice," Purtell said. "He's a hands-on recruiter. He's really interested in her."
Rice, a 6-foot-4 post player, was of interest to former Ohio State coach Jim Foster, as well. The Buckeyes were on her list, along with Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland.

The same night that Purtell heard from McGuff, so did Tim Cogan. Cogan coached Kettering Fairmont to the Division I championship this season with top junior forwards Kathyrn Westbeld and Makayla Waterman.

"He reached out last night," Cogan said. "He's from Ohio, and he's excited to be back. I do know him. He was pretty darn good when he was at Xavier."

...

Cincinnati Princeton coach Jill Phillips has known McGuff for 11 years. An intermediary had contacted her for McGuff, she said.
"I was excited that he got the job," Phillips said. "He knows the region well, and I think he'll do a great job of recruiting. I think our kids would remember the job he did at Xavier."
Two of those kids are junior point guard Kelsey Mitchell and her twin sister, Chelsea. Kelsey is a top-10 recruit with dozens of scholarship offers, but the sisters plan to play together in college. Foster recruited both, Phillips said.
Click to expand...
 
Upvote 0
Marcus Hartman ‏@marcushartman 13m
Interesting writeup from ESPN on 3 of Ohio's top 2014 girls' bball prospects teaming up now and maybe later

http://espn.go.com/espnw/hoopgurlz/...oin-forces-all-ohio-aau-girls-basketball-team


Kelsey Mitchell notices the stares.

When she and her new AAU teammates, Makayla Waterman and Kathryn Westbeld, walk into a gym, heads turn. It's not all that surprising, considering their All-Ohio team features three of the top prospects in the nation.

"We get those looks like, 'We know who you are,'" said Mitchell, a 5-foot-9 point guard and the No. 4 prospect in the 2014 class. "We know teams are going to come at us, but we are going to come at them, too."

Waterman and Westbeld have been teammates since third grade, from travel ball all the way to Fairmont (Kettering, Ohio), the high school they led to a state title in March.
Click to expand...
 
Upvote 0
Mike Dyer ‏@MikeDyer 9m
Princeton 2014 standout Kelsey Mitchell and her sister Chelsea plan to visit Rutgers and Syracuse in June according to Mitchell family #enqr

Mike Dyer ‏@MikeDyer 8m
Will also try to visit Tennessee and Ohio State in June, according to Mitchell family #enqr
 
Upvote 0
Kelsey, The Enquirer player of the year the past two seasons, was Associated Press Division I first-team all-state and the Southwest District player of the year this past season as a junior. She averaged 23.3 points, 4.3 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 3.0 steals.

Kelsey has had several significant scholarship offers and was named to the American Family Insurance All-USA Today Preseason Team before the start of this past season. As of May 1, she was ranked the nation?s No. 1 guard by Dan Olson?s Collegiate Basketball Report in the 2014 class and the No. 3 player overall. She was ranked the nation?s No. 1 guard by Blue Star Report and ranked fourth overall by that publication.

?From my understanding of the recruiting of Kelsey and Chelsea was that geography was being considered,? Jenkins said. ?Obviously, if that is the case Ohio State falls within those boundaries and now with their dad on staff at Ohio State one would have to think that Ohio State has the advantage in signing Kelsey and Chelsea.?

Booker said Friday afternoon he hadn?t spoken to Mark Mitchell about the possibility of his daughters going to Ohio State.

?That will be neat if it happened but I know nothing about that at all,? Booker said.
Click to expand...

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/recruit...-at-an-advantage-for-signing-kelsey-mitchell/
 
Upvote 0
Possible way to get some good commitments:wink:
Ohio State women’s basketball coach Kevin McGuff looked back to his Cincinnati roots yesterday to find his third and final assistant coach.

McGuff, who coached nine years at Xavier, hired Mark Mitchell to complete his first staff with the Buckeyes. Mitchell has been the boys basketball coach at Taft High School in Cincinnati the past 11 seasons,

Mitchell coached the Senators to the Division III championship in 2011 and posted a 221-50 record overall. He also is the father of heavily recruited Cincinnati Princeton High School point guard Kelsey Mitchell.

“Mark is a proven winner and has had great success as a head coach and helping young people develop on and off the court,” McGuff said in a university release.

Kelsey Mitchell is ranked No. 4 nationally by the ESPN HoopGurlz website and the Philadelphia-based Blue Star Report for the 2014 recruiting class. She and her twin sister, Chelsea, will be high-school seniors in the fall and are on record as saying they want to attend college together.

Neither has issued an oral commitment.
Click to expand...
http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/con...01/0601-sports-report-top-art-glnn6b56-1.html
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top