A Boise State mention connected to a prospect

Bob Gottlieb (the father of ESPN's Doug Gottlieb) runs a number of club teams in southern California under the title of Branch West. He recently wrote about one of his players and added that Boise State -- among many others -- is taking a look at the young man.

Maverick Ahanmisi 6'1" unsigned senior guard who will likely attend prep school and sign in November, hit 4 three pointers in the last 4 minutes to lead Branch West to a come from behind win over well regarded Rockfish in a Best of the Summer Super Pool game yesterday at Loyola Marymount.

Branch West finished 2-1 in pool play, losing to a superb Dallas team by 2, then beating an excellent Memphis team by 2 and then Rockfish.

Dallas lost only to Memphis so they also finsihed 2-1, with Rockfish and Memphis finishing 1-2.

All four teams will go into the big tournament since they were in a super pool. Dallas won the pool by virtue of beating Branch West in head to head.

Highly respected Dave Benezra, founder and Director of the Rockfish program, has moved up to a GM role and has one of the up and coming outstanding young high school coaches, Jeff Berekoff handling the reins.

Ironicaly BG was instrumental in Jeff getting a full NCAA D1 scholarship to Northwestern, coming out of high school. That was prior to the formation of the Branch West recruiting Assistance Service. In those days, I coached and helped kids in recruiting, strictly as an avocation.

Another irony is that after several successful years as the Head Coach at Pomona H.S., Jeff is the new Head Coach at El Modena H.S., where two of my kids attended high school. El Modena H.S basketball is in good hands.

Maverick Ahanmisi has had a spectacular summer, highlighted by a 37 pt explosion vs. Joe Ward All Stars of Phoenix, arguably the most talented team we saw or played against this summer. It included an incredible 7 three pointers in the 2nd half.

He is a major scoring guard.

Schools such as Weber State, Boise St., SMU, Pacific, Wash. State, Colorado State, St. Marys, Centenary and a multitude of others are showing serious interest.