ROCK HILL, S.C. \u2014 College coaches can\u2019t take their seats courtside for the first July evaluation period until Thursday, but the adidas circuit tipped the week off on Wednesday with a day full of showcase and play-in games, with several Purdue recruiting targets in action.<\/p>\n
Some notes from Rock Hill Wednesday \u2026<\/p>\n
LUKE ERTEL IS BACK<\/p>\n
After being sidelined by a troublesome ankle \u2014\u00a0first injured at NBA Camp in this very building \u2014 for the majority of the June recruiting periods, Boilermaker commitment Luke Ertel scored 19 points Wednesday in his July debut, an Indiana Elite loss to D1 Minnesota, a showcase game that won\u2019t count toward IE\u2019s standing in bracket play.<\/p>\n
If Ertel experienced rust, it might have been seen in his three-point shooting on Wednesday, but in response to his uneven shooting from long range, he looked more than healthy in really attacking the paint off the dribble.<\/p>\n
Video \u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
PURDUE ON THURSDAY<\/p>\n
Matt Painter is expected to open the live period Thursday in Richmond, Va., to see in-state forward Noah Smith before making his way, presumably, down to Augusta and Rock Hill. Purdue will have assistant coaches at the Nike and adidas events all week, as well as the Under Armour event near Atlanta.<\/p>\n
In Augusta, it\u2019ll be an early start: 2027 point guard target Jaxson Davis<\/a> plays at 8 a.m. Fellow junior-to-be target Isaiah Hill<\/a> plays at 11.<\/p>\n ETC<\/p>\n \u2022 Purdue 2026 wing target Bo Ogden<\/a> scored 22 points in his one game today.<\/p>\n \u2022 Newly offered senior-to-be center Arafan Diane<\/a> went for 22 points and 13 rebounds in Iowa United\u2019s tough win over Phenom United. The charismatic 7-footer from Guinea by way of Canada had NBA people watching him Wednesday. Thursday, he\u2019ll have college coaches doing the same. Diane was offered by Purdue in June.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jason Gardner Jr. <\/a>and Cooper Zachary scored 24 and 19, respectively, for Indiana Elite\u2019s 16s in an exhausting OT win over Garner Road.<\/p>\n Purdue has offered Gardner for 2027, and has seriously recruited Zachary, who made five threes Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u2022 Purdue has been showing interest in Canadian 7-footer Max Meyer<\/a>, who like countryman Zach Edey did, attends IMG Academy. Meyer just returned from Switzerland where he played for Canada\u2019s 19-and-under team.<\/p>\n Meyer said he has an offer from Michigan State, likely among others, but that he\u2019s been disengaged from recruiting for a few weeks while playing overseas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Purdue 2027 PG target Kevin Savage <\/a>was excellent in Game Elite\u2019s win over Team Loaded, scoring 21 points on 14 shots, with just one turnover. Recent Purdue visitor Colben Landrew<\/a> scored 18.<\/p>\n Much more to come throughout the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCK HILL, S.C. \u2014 College coaches can\u2019t take their seats courtside for the first July evaluation period until…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-1167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}