Basketball: Provo's Davies enjoys Utah State visit
Here's a little bit of good news for Utah State fans: their team's horrible showing on the football field Saturday night didn't turn off their coveted basketball recruit.
Provo High's Brandon Davies, the 6-foot-8, 215-pound power forward who is a four-star recruit according to Scout.com, said Monday night that he visited Utah State over the weekend, and liked what he saw, "except for their football team, which is not good at all."
The Aggies were crushed by Utah, 58-10.
Davies said the visit was fun and the football team's performance will have no bearing on his final decision at all.
"I liked everything about it," he said. "They answered all my questions."
The weekend before his USU visit, Davies visited Cal. He also has offers from BYU, Gonzaga, Santa Clara and Utah. He thinks he has an offer from Arizona, but hasn't heard from them in a while.
A local source told me that Arizona is wary of signing Davies because it feels it was burned in the highly publicized case of Brandon Jennings, the Oak Hill Academy star who signed with Arizona but failed to qualify academically and will play professionally in Europe.
Asked to compare Cal and Utah State, Davies politely declined.
"I liked them both," he said.
Davies said he will visit Gonzaga the weekend of Sept. 26-27 and BYU a weekend or two after that.
He doesn't have any other visits scheduled, and doesn't think he will add any.
Does that mean the University of Utah is off his list?
"I don't know," he said. "I haven't narrowed it down and stuff."
Utah recently received a commitment from forward Shawn Glover of Cedar Hill High in Texas, and has four known commitments for its four known available scholarships.
Gonzaga got a commitment last week from another forward, 6-9 senior Sam Dower of Osseo, Minn., but Davies said he isn't concerned and was assured by a Gonzaga coach during a recent home visit that the Zags still want him and still have big plans for him.
He said he's also had home visits from Cal coach Mike Montgomery, BYU coach Dave Rose and USU coach Stew Morrill.
"I am pretty sure that I am going to decide before the [basketball] season starts," he said.
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While Davies was in Logan last weekend, the state's other top uncommitted basketball recruit, Lone Peak guard Tyler Haws, was taking his official campus visit to BYU, where the home team had an altogether different performance on the football field. The Cougars crushed UCLA 59-0, and Haws had a prime seat to watch the bloodbath.
A source close to the BYU coaching staff said the visit went well, but did not end with a commitment.
Haws, 6-foot-4, has narrowed his choices to BYU and Stanford.
-- Jay Drew
Provo High's Brandon Davies, the 6-foot-8, 215-pound power forward who is a four-star recruit according to Scout.com, said Monday night that he visited Utah State over the weekend, and liked what he saw, "except for their football team, which is not good at all."
The Aggies were crushed by Utah, 58-10.
Davies said the visit was fun and the football team's performance will have no bearing on his final decision at all.
"I liked everything about it," he said. "They answered all my questions."
The weekend before his USU visit, Davies visited Cal. He also has offers from BYU, Gonzaga, Santa Clara and Utah. He thinks he has an offer from Arizona, but hasn't heard from them in a while.
A local source told me that Arizona is wary of signing Davies because it feels it was burned in the highly publicized case of Brandon Jennings, the Oak Hill Academy star who signed with Arizona but failed to qualify academically and will play professionally in Europe.
Asked to compare Cal and Utah State, Davies politely declined.
"I liked them both," he said.
Davies said he will visit Gonzaga the weekend of Sept. 26-27 and BYU a weekend or two after that.
He doesn't have any other visits scheduled, and doesn't think he will add any.
Does that mean the University of Utah is off his list?
"I don't know," he said. "I haven't narrowed it down and stuff."
Utah recently received a commitment from forward Shawn Glover of Cedar Hill High in Texas, and has four known commitments for its four known available scholarships.
Gonzaga got a commitment last week from another forward, 6-9 senior Sam Dower of Osseo, Minn., but Davies said he isn't concerned and was assured by a Gonzaga coach during a recent home visit that the Zags still want him and still have big plans for him.
He said he's also had home visits from Cal coach Mike Montgomery, BYU coach Dave Rose and USU coach Stew Morrill.
"I am pretty sure that I am going to decide before the [basketball] season starts," he said.
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While Davies was in Logan last weekend, the state's other top uncommitted basketball recruit, Lone Peak guard Tyler Haws, was taking his official campus visit to BYU, where the home team had an altogether different performance on the football field. The Cougars crushed UCLA 59-0, and Haws had a prime seat to watch the bloodbath.
A source close to the BYU coaching staff said the visit went well, but did not end with a commitment.
Haws, 6-foot-4, has narrowed his choices to BYU and Stanford.
-- Jay Drew
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