Since we have relatives that read this blog and they wanted to see some photos of our trip to London this spring, here is a pix of yours truly with the wife scouting bigs for BYU. We found one. His name is Ben.Below are two more bigs. Dave Rose found these two. At left is Michael Boswell and on the right is Jeremy Olsen.
It’s July and that means that BYU basketball coaches will be on the road again looking for big men for the program. You can never have enough good ones.
Barring any surprises here are the bigs that will be on the BYU roster this season: Trent Plaisted,, 6-11; Vuk Ivanovic, 6-10; Gavin MacGregor, 6-9; Chris Miles, 6-11 and James Anderson, 7-0.
Miles and Anderson are both returning from LDS missions. Miles played a season as a frosh and Anderson will be enrolling in school for the first time this fall.
Here are a couple of other possible BYU bigs down the road. Dave Rose and his staff have been following these two guys around all spring and summer and will be doing the same in Las Vegas later this month.
Michael Boswell is a 6-9, 210 pound post from Aloha HS in Beaverton, OR. He is LDS and has had the usual schools and coaches with LDS connections following him this spring when his play started to attract attention on the AAU circuit. Those schools showing interest are BYU, Fresno State (Steve Cleveland), Utah, Weber State and Portland.
Boswell plays for the Oregon Rebels and will be participating in the Reebok Summer Championships Tourney. BYU has not yet offered Boswell, who will be a senior this coming season, but they very well could, depending on how he performs later this month.
Also playing in the same tournament will be Jeremy Olsen, the 6-9, 220 pound big from Collins Hill HS in Suwannee, GA. He too is LDS, but will only be a junior this coming year. BYU has already offered him.
He plays on the very talented Worldwide Renegades team from the Atlanta area. Besides BYU, he already has offers from Utah, Xavier and Ole’ Miss.
We will add one more name to the BYU big list. That would be 6-9, 210 pound Noah Hartsock. He is currently serving an Spanish speaking LDS mission in Sandy, UT. He prepped in Oklahoma.
We saw this guy in Vegas two years ago and can guarantee that he will be a player for the Cougars. We have included some video of him in Vegas in 2005 just in case you run into a missionary in Sandy on a P-day playing basketball. Don’t go thinking just because you played a little local high school basketball, you could take this guy. You can’t.
Here is some video of Hartsock going up against the 7-foot Lopez twins, Brook and Robin and Quincy Pondexter. The Lopez twins are now at Stanford and Pondexter is at Washington.
Noah Hartsock
