Basketball: Provo's Davies commits to BYU
Provo High's Brandon Davies, the top big man in the state, is headed to BYU.
Davies, the 6-foot-8 power forward/center who helped lead Provo to the 4A state championship last spring, orally committed to BYU coach Dave Rose on Sunday morning.
Davies gave me the news via telephone a few minutes ago, and said he committed in Rose's office at the Marriott Center after making his official campus visit this weekend.
"It just felt right to choose BYU," he said. "It's close to home and I have a huge support system if I go there, with my family close by and my high school teammates and all the people who have helped me over the years."
Davies' commitment to BYU comes less than three weeks after another highly recruited high school senior from Utah, Lone Peak's Tyler Haws, committed to Rose.
Haws is expected to play one year and then go on an LDS Church mission. Davies has not decided whether he will go on a mission or not, but said he will play at least two seasons of college basketball before deciding.
He won't turn 19 until July of 2010.
Regardless, Davies said he is "extremely relieved" that his first major decision is out of the way.
The power forward/center also made official visits to Cal, Utah State and Gonzaga, and had offers from those three schools, along with BYU. He recently crossed Gonzaga off the list.
-- Jay Drew
Davies, the 6-foot-8 power forward/center who helped lead Provo to the 4A state championship last spring, orally committed to BYU coach Dave Rose on Sunday morning.
Davies gave me the news via telephone a few minutes ago, and said he committed in Rose's office at the Marriott Center after making his official campus visit this weekend.
"It just felt right to choose BYU," he said. "It's close to home and I have a huge support system if I go there, with my family close by and my high school teammates and all the people who have helped me over the years."
Davies' commitment to BYU comes less than three weeks after another highly recruited high school senior from Utah, Lone Peak's Tyler Haws, committed to Rose.
Haws is expected to play one year and then go on an LDS Church mission. Davies has not decided whether he will go on a mission or not, but said he will play at least two seasons of college basketball before deciding.
He won't turn 19 until July of 2010.
Regardless, Davies said he is "extremely relieved" that his first major decision is out of the way.
The power forward/center also made official visits to Cal, Utah State and Gonzaga, and had offers from those three schools, along with BYU. He recently crossed Gonzaga off the list.
-- Jay Drew
3 Comments:
Wow, this is unreal. Congratulations to Davies and to Coach Rose. Dave Rose is proving with each huge recruit what a fantastic recruiter he is. He's already proven to be a very capable coach. The wealth of talent in Provo is something BYU has not enjoyed since the days of Danny Ainge.
Congrats, BYU!
Coach Rose does an outstanding job. He recruits well. His teams play tough defense. He seems to prepare well for games and make good adjustments during games. His players seem to like him. Yet he demands discipline and hard work and gets it. The future looks promising.
This is great news. BYU basketball is in very good hands with Dave Rose, and we will be very good for years and years to come.
Now we just need to reunite Kyle and Chris Collinsworth at the Y.
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