Chris Murray previews Jordan Burris & Yannick Atanga

Coach David Carter has at least two visitors coming in to Reno this weekend and Chris Murray offers background on both:

A deeper look at Wolf Pack recruit Jordan Burris
Chris Murray
Reno Gazette-Journal
10/1/2009

As we wrote earlier this week, Nevada will host recruits Jordan Burris and Yannick Atanga this weekend. I've flagged down a pair of Burris' coaches so you could get a little better understanding about his game, strengths and potential to play at Nevada. The first coach I spoke with was Oliver Brown, who will be Burris' coach at Stockdale High in Bakersfield, Calif., this season. Brown took over the program this summer. He said Burris has recruiting visists scheduled this week at Nevada, next week at Lamar University and the following week at Pepperdine.

"I’ve gotten several calls," Brown said. "There's mild interest from different schools. Highly interested schools are Pepperdine, Nevada, Lamar University, which is in the Texas area, and Fresno State. Mild interest, TCU, San Jose State, UC Irvine and UC Riverside. ... I would say the top of his list is certainly Nevada. I would say it’s between Nevada and Pepperdine, but that’s just from when I talked to him (Monday)."

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Wolf Pack recruit Yannick Atanga burgeoning with potential
Chris Murray
Reno Gazette-Journal
10/1/2009

Earlier today, we took a look at basketball recruit Jordan Burris, who is visiting Nevada this weekend. Now it's time to learn a little about Yannick Atanga, who also will be visiting Reno this weekend (he leaves Thursday night with his coach Randy Bertin).

Since coach David Carter took over the program in April, the Wolf Pack has twice dipped into the international pool for recruits — first with London native Patrick Nyeko and then with Serbian big man Marko Cukic. Atanga fits the same mold. He was born in Cameroon's capital city of Yaounde (also the birth place of ex-UCLA star Luc Richard Mbah a Moute) and moved to the United States three years ago...

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