Big East Basketball: Analyzing each program’s 2020 recruiting class
What do the Big East Basketball programs’ current recruiting classes look like as we head into the 2020-21 season?
Big East Basketball ended the 2019-20 regular season as the highest-ranked conference in RPI and strength of schedule. Due to Seton Hall failing to win at least one of the last two games in order to clinch the regular-season championship, the Pirates had to settle for sharing it with Villanova and Creighton.
Along with welcoming back Connecticut Basketball, the Big East will be welcoming 30 new recruits, none of which will be joining head coach Jay Wright and Villanova Basketball which could have been an offseason storyline. A third of these recruits are four-star and with five of the six All-Big East First Team members entering the NBA Draft, the Big East will be set to change a little.
The freshman might only be outdone by the breakout players when it comes to changing the Big East landscape. For the most part, 247sports is spot on as is shown by the rankings that accompany each team in the headline. There are just a couple of differences at the top of the conference recruiting rankings.
DePaul Blue Demons: No.10 Big East, No.114 Nation
Kobe Elvis – 6’2 / 185 CG
Labeled as a combo guard and for good reason, if coach Dave Leito wants to get the most out of his new recruit, playing him at off-guard will be the best course of action. DePaul Basketball, like every team, has several points of interest this offseason, one being the need to get offense from the back-court by somebody besides Charlie Moore.
Elvis will be the point guard of the future for the Blue Demons as the 2020-21 season will be Moore’s final at Wintrust Arena. Elvis was the primary ball-handler on his high school team with excellent court vision, as well as his pinpoint passing, is the reason why. If guards double down on Paul Reed who averages over ten two-point field goals a game and leave Elvis alone on the perimeter he will hit from beyond the arc.
Defensively, Elvis functioned as a second coach on the court by talking and directing traffic. A couple of things he will have to adjust to in the Big East is using the screen in order to get some space and getting used to not being the best player on the court, for now.