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Quinn Cook to Cut List; Daniels to IMG
By Adam Zagoria on August 27, 2010, 9:37AM
Quinn Cook is down to seven schools and plans to determine his official visits soon.
“I got seven schools, Duke, St. John’s, Rutgers, Georgetown, UCLA, Arizona and North Carolina,” Cook said by phone from the Boost Mobile Elite 24 game in Venice Beach, Calif.
Cook, who will play at Oak Hill (Va.) Academy, is the No. 5 point guard in the Class of 2011.
In signing 2011 point guards, UCLA already lost out on Jahii Carson (Mesa, AZ) 5-10 170 (committed to ASU) and Nick Johnson (Findlay Prep, NV) 6-3 185(committed to Arizona). Still uncommitted are Cook, Cezar Guerrero (Bellflower, CA) 6-0 175 and Josiah Turner (Sacramento, CA) 6-2 180.
Cook said he hasn’t figured out where he’ll take his official visits yet.
“I’ll know by next week,” he said. “I’m not sure yet.”
Cook is very close with Duke guard Nolan Smith. Both are from the Washington D.C. area. Both played for D.C. Assault. And both have the Oak Hill connection.
So is Duke an option? It may depend on how the Austin Rivers situation plays out. Rivers is considering Duke, Florida and North Carolina, but many observers expect him to land at Duke.
“It’s an option that I’m looking into,” Cook said of Duke.
Cook is also considering both Rutgers and St. John’s. Thanks to Rutgers associate head coach David Cox, Rutgers now has a strong pipeline into D.C. Assault, as evidenced by the commitments of Jordan Goodman and Malick Kone.
St. John’s is also an option for Cook.
“They’re on my list,” Cook said. “I have a good relationship with Coach [Steve] Lavin. They’re definitely on my list right now.”
Whatever he decides, Smith thinks it would be best for Cook to make a decision in the early signing period.
“I think it would be best for him to get it out before his senior season,” Smith said recently in New York. “A lot of guys don’t think it would but it will make his senior year go a lot smoother and he can just focus on basketball. I think it should be coming real soon.”
DANIELS TO IMG ACADEMY
"The 6-foot-8, 180-pound Daniels is ranked the No. 3 shooting guard in the Class of 2011 by Rivals, and Derrick Taylor, his coach at Woodland Hills (Calif.) Taft compared him to a young Scottie Pippen."
Woodland Hills (Calif.) Taft also produced Bruin alum Jordan Farmar.
Daniels visited UCLA recently and was a possible signee for the 2010 season but now has opted to go to IMG Academy and postpone college till 2011.
DeAndre Daniels is expected to enroll in IMG Academy on Sunday, sources confirm.
“I want to be sure that I’m ready [for college] and get bigger and gain some weight and be a better basketball player,” he said recently.
The 6-8, 192-pound Daniels also confirmed he would head to college in 2011.
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