Staying Up-To-Date on the URI Basketball Recruiting Trail: 8/16/18
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 Brandon Newman (2019), PF Tyrese Samuel (2019), SG Preston Santos (2019), SG Dahmir Bishop (2019), SG Josh Nickelberry (2019), SG Kadary Richmond (2019), SF Jaiden Delaire (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), PF Marial Mading (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), PG Isaiah Wilson (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), PG A.J. Hoggard (2020), SG Terrence Clarke (2021), SG Alexis Reyes (2021), G Jordan Longino (2021), PG Darrius Davis (2021)
Unfortunately, five star center Kofi Cockburn removed Rhode Island from the list of schools that he is considering. Additionally, on August 10, 2018, SG James Bouknight eliminated David Cox's team from the schools that he is considering. Going forward, it is highly unlikely that Rhode Island will land Akok Akok.
The two class of 2018 recruits are unlikely to have any effect or impact on Rhode Island MBB's future recruiting plans. In recent history, David Cox and his coaching staff have been heavily pursuing the likes of Dahmir Bishop, Naheem Mcleod, and Tyler Burton. The Rams were at the forefront of Bishop's final eight schools. Meanwhile, they made it into Mcleod's list of his final six schools and the result was the same with Tyler Burton's list of his final six schools.
