The Nike Elite Youth Basketball League (EYBL) Session 4 was live and in full effect in Kansas City as the summer reached the midway point.
College coaches came out in droves to see some of the best high school prospects in the country for this tournament and the Adidas 3 Stripes Select Basketball (3SSB) tournament.
Coaching staffs from Maryland, Kentucky, Louisville, Auburn, Illinois, and many more were in the building to watch the New Jersey Scholars Elite Basketball Club (15-4) take on Team Durant (11-8) Sunday.
The New Jersey Scholars won convincingly, 68-54, behind 22 points and 14 rebounds by five-star center Aaron Bradshaw out of Camden High School (NJ). Cian Medley followed behind him with an impressive 19-point, eight assists, seven-rebound, and three-steal performance.
Delamortay Jones led Team Durant with 14 points, four rebounds, and four assists. Maryland 2023 top target Kwame Evans Jr. scored 12 points and secured four rebounds. 2023 four-star Maryland commit Jahnathan Lamothe had seven points, four assists, and two steals in the loss.
The St. Frances Academy (MD) shooting guard committed to the Terps on June 5 and chose the Terps over LSU, Creighton, Georgetown, UCF, Illinois, Marquette, Ohio State and others. Assistant coach Tony Skinn had a key role in Lamothe landing with Maryland.
“I think it’s more than basketball. I think he can talk to me about anything in my bad times and my good times. Coach Skinn, he’s recruited me from Seton Hall to Ohio State to Maryland so we’ve had that bond for a few years.”
The Terps coaching staff also got a chance to watch Team Durant in action with Trentyn Flowers and Freddie Dilione, Isaiah Coleman, and Rob Dockery in the 3SSB tournament. Flowers, a consensus top-ten prospect, transferred from Sierra Canyon (CA) to Rosedale Christian Academy (MD) last month to set the stage for an offer from the new local team. Maryland jumped into the mix for Dilione back in mid-April after head coach Kevin Willard began building a relationship with the four-star when he was the head coach at Seton Hall.
“They were talking about my size as a point guard, my length, the way I come off screens and make the right play, shoot the ball,” he said at the time. “A lot of coaches didn’t know I could play the one, but after the live period they’ve been able to see that more.”
After shining for Team Loaded in the 3SSB Championship, Maryland also extended a new 2023 offer to Benedictine (VA) guard David Cosby, joining Alabama, Cal, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Texas A&M, USF and Virginia Tech with new offers through the weekend.
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