Staying Up-To-Date on the URI Basketball Recruiting Trail: 6/29/18
The new list of players that the Rhode Island men's basketball coaching staff has been linked to includes (but is not limited to): PG Malik Johnson (2018), SG D.J. Mitchell (2018), PG Noah Fernandes (2019), PG Al-Amir Dawes (2019), SG James Bouknight (2019), SG Brandon Newman (2019), PF Tyrese Samuel (2019), SG Preston Santos (2019), SG Dahmir Bishop (2019), SG Josh Nickelberry (2019), SF Greg Gantt Jr. (2019), C Kofi Cockburn (2019), SF Jaiden Delaire (2019), SF Mekhi Long (2019), SF Michael Christmas (2019), SF Tyler Burton (2019), PF Akok Akok (2019), SF Yavuz Gultekin (2019), PF Aidan Igiehon (2019), PF Maxwell Lorca-Lloyd (2019), PF Tre Mitchell (2019), PF Anthony Walker III (2019), PG Taelon Martin (2019), PF Karim Coulibaly (2019), PF Wildens Leveque (2019), PF Mahamadou Diawara (2019), PF Jason Murphy (2019), C Ray Somerville (2019), C Kai Jones (2019), C Qudus Abolaji Wahab (2019), C Naheem Mcleod (2019), PG Cameron Thomas (2020), PG Elijah Wood (2020), PG Enoch Cheeks (2020), PG Hassan Diarra (2020), SG Earl Timberlake Jr. (2020), SG Aidan Carpenter (2020), SG Darius Maddox (2020), SG Darius Miles (2020), SF Anthony Thomas (2020), SF Demarr Langford Jr. (2020), PF Kareem Reid (2020), PF Dyondre Dominguez (2020), PF Trey Hall (2020), PF Richard Springs (2020), PF Myles Stute (2020), PF Oumar Koureissi (2020), PG Adrian Baldwin Jr. (2020), SG Terrence Clarke (2021), G Alexis Reyes (2021), G Jordan Longino (2021)
Rhody MBB appears to be all in on SG Dahmir Bishop, who is from Daron "Fatts" Russell's alma mater. Bishop made an unofficial visit to URI on June 23, 2018. Then, on June 25, 2018, top-100 C Naheem Mcleod went on an unofficial visit to URI. In the near future, SF Yavuz Gultekin will have an unofficial visit at URI on June 30, 2018.
In addition, they are pursuing class of 2020 recruiting targets with aggression, at this point in the recruiting cycle. Within June 15-June 20, they put out nine offers to class of 2020 players.
