Adreian Payne is a Spartan
by LVS on Oct 29, 2009 2:38 PM CDT
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The Dayton Daily News has the fantastic story:
Adreian Payne will play his college basketball at Michigan State.
The 6-foot-10 Jefferson High School center made a verbal commitment to play for the Spartans today, Oct. 29. His announcement will be aired nationally on ESPNU today at 5:30 p.m. [ . . . ]
Payne is the fourth-ranked center and 20th-ranked player overall in the Class of 2010, according to Rivals.com. The final four schools he considered were Arizona, Kentucky, Michigan State and West Virginia. He recently had cut Kansas from that list.
5 star recruit at a position of need? Sign me up! (Downside: getting used to spelling his first name properly.) Big time pick up for MSU; KJ will have more tonight.
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Great news!!!
If Lucas doesn’t go pro after this year (and I don’t think he will unless he really blows up b/c this is supposed to be one of the best drafts in years) we are rediculously loaded next year. We are probably a top 5-10 next year even if Lucas goes pro with the quality returning talent and recruiting class we’ll have.
Oh, and we’re ranked #2 in the pre-season this year after making the title game last year! Good times to be a Spartan bball fan.
BOOM!
Hell yeah! Life is sweet. Can see this kid and Nix being the big man tandem we’ve never really had since Izzo’s been here. Couple that with Appling coming and I can’t wait to see what the future holds.
Still Pumped
I’ve seen a decent amount of speculation saying this kid is one and done, but I doubt that’s the case. From what I’ve read, he’s going to make an impact right away defensively since he’s very athletic and has a 7’2 reach, but that he’s a bit raw offensively. Plus, our front court will be loaded next year with Roe, Morgan, Nix, Sherman and maybe Herzog.
If he is one and done, that’s probably a good thing since it’ll likely mean he tore it up on the court.
Keep "Em Coming
Good news for Spartan hoops. Looking like a solid recruiting class. When we didn’t get Wilson, I thought we might just have to delay our gratification for a year. Turned out to be the case.
Stones, just a note – Morgan will be gone after this year, unless he is planning on sitting the year out with some unknown illness.
Morgan
Yeah, I definitely know he’ll be gone…I probably should have been more clear. He’ll be the only one we lose if Lucas doesn’t go pro, so there is lots of returning talent plus a top recruiting class.
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