'11 IN SG Austin Richie (Western Michigan Verbal)

[Jason Svoboda]

Shooting Guard
Lowell (IN) Lowell

Ht: 6-foot-1

 

[Jason Svoboda]

Looks like Indiana State has some interest here. Recently offered by Valpo.

http://nwitimes.com/sports/high-school/indiana/article_8d276e13-a41c-5c79-a13f-51c35161f142.html

 

[sycamorebacker]

Scored 50 the other day. Says his natural position is PG.

tonight's game.

http://nwitimes.com/sports/high-school/indiana/article_62954ab7-3770-50e5-a192-9c715d8de488.html

 

[Jason Svoboda]

No mention of ISU in this, but some MVC teams are mentioned.

http://blogs.indystar.com/recruitingcentral/2010/06/lowell-shooter.html

 

[Jason Svoboda]

http://www.austinrichie.net

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgYFYr8CAdE[/ame]

 

[Bally #50]

Hey Boda, with all of your recruiting contributions this week, you've added a bunch to the numbers lately. Question. If you are the 50,000th.....can you win?

 

[Jason Svoboda]

Hey Boda, with all of your recruiting contributions this week, you've added a bunch to the numbers lately. Question. If you are the 50,000th.....can you win?

The person that posts number 50,000 doesn't win... I'm just holding a drawing and the folks that posted in that milestone thread has their name entered into it.

 

[Bally #50]

I figured that out a while back but you wonder if everyone knows that. I was just having fun with you. You've got to be pumped with the way this board has performed of late. I've only been on here regularly for a couple of months and IMO, it has "grown" up a lot since then! Congrates to you!

 

[region rat]

Austin has nice game, goes to the basket/not afraid, elevates nice on jump shot, finishes/even on bump fouls, saw some nice passes, and would be nice if also rebounds. It would be a good pickup for ISU.

 

[Jon]

I have a buddy who teaches at Lowell and says the kid has some real skills. They were flat out awful last year when he got hurt, mostly because the offense is run around and through him. His beef with Richie is that he doesn't play in an overly difficult conference and when matched up against quicker and bigger 5A players, he has struggled in the past. I've never seen him play live, so I can't attest to the validity of that...but I wanted to pass on the info.

FWIW, my buddy has seen him play probably 10 times in the last year and thinks he could be an okay contributor over time, but not really a game changer.

 

[Proud To Be A Tree]

I'm okay without the smurf shooting guards. I think I'd prefer someone with size like Vandewater or Griffin since Oglesby seems to be too big time for State.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

A blurb on Austin over at Trevor's site:

http://inbasketballsource.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=196:ibca-top-100-workout&catid=148:ibca-top-100-workout&Itemid=170

 

[Jason Svoboda]

New offer for Lowell's Austin Richie (2011) from UTEP. Illinois State, North Carolina State and Santa Clara also showing interest.

http://twitter.com/star_recruits

 

[region rat]

Latest on Austin Richie

Recent information regarding Richie's "stock and recognition"

http://hoopsindiana.hoops247.com/articles/austinrichey.html

 

[Jason Svoboda]

So now Richie has some options. He took one of his five official visits to IUPUI (one of the two schools that had offered him before the summer; Valparaiso was the other) a little more than a week ago and also plans on making official visits to Western Michigan, Bucknell and Drake.

http://blogs.indystar.com/recruitingcentral/2010/09/lowell-sharpsho.html

 

[Jason Svoboda]

Prior to May he held offers from Valpo and IUPUI. Now he has his choice of Western Michigan, Drake, Loyola Chicago, Bucknell, Holy Cross, Appalachian State, UTEP, Louisiana Tech, TCU and Portland among several others to add to his original two suitors.

http://www.slamonline.com/online/college-hs/high-school/2010/09/rich-get-richer/

 

[shock3]

Committed to Western Michigan today according to Dave Telep's ESPN section "On the Trail"