UCLA Basketball Recruiting Char (1977-2008)

By Bruin Basketball Report

Historical UCLA basketball recruiting chart provided courtesy of Captain Haggerty (poster at BRO)

EXPLANATORY
NOTES: 

Rankings were taken from the following historical sources

1998 to present: RSCI (www.rsci.com)

1995 to 1997: Athlon Magazine

1993 to 1994: Sporting News

1977 to 1992: Assumed any McDonald's All-American was a Top 25 player

Transfer players were not included in the grid nor were recruits who never played in a UCLA uniform.  From 1993 on, the number in parentheses after the player's name is his recruiting ranking.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

YEAR	TOP 25	TOP 50	TOP 100	OTHER
1977			Tony Anderson
1978	Tyren Naulls	Mike Sanders
1979	Darren Daye	Rod Foster  Michael Holton	Cliff Pruitt
1980	Kenny Fields  Ralph Jackson			Mark Eaton  Dean Sears
1981	Stuart Gray  Nigel Miguel	Gary Maloncon	Brad Wright
1982	Montel Hatcher
1983	Corey Gaines	Reggie Miller	Dave Immel
1984	Craig Jackson			Kelvin   Butler    Jerald Jones  Jack Haley
1985	Pooh Richardson		Rod Palmer	Charles Rochelin
1986		Greg Foster	Trevor Wilson  Kevin Walker
1987			Gerald Madkins	Kevin Williams
1988	Don MacLean  Darrick Martin			Darren Dafney
1989	Tracy Murray  Mitchell Butler	Zan Mason
1990	Ed O’Bannon	Shon Tarver	Rodney Zimmerman
1991			Tyus Edney	George Zidek  Mike Lanier
1992			Ike Nwankwo	Marquis Burns Kevin Dempsey  Rich Petruska
1993	Charles O’Bannon (3)			Cameron Dollar
1994	Omm’A Givens (19)	Kris Johnson (50)	J.R. Henderson (56)  Toby Bailey (72)
1995	Jelani McCoy (18)			Brandon Loyd
1996
1997	Baron Davis (1)		Earl Watson (87)	Billy Knight  Travis Reed  Rico Hines  Kevin Daley
1998	Dan Gadzuric (1)  JaRon Rush (4)  Ray Young (13)		Matt Barnes (51)  Jerome Moiso (72)
1999	Jason Kapono (9)
2000		T.J. Cummings (26)		Josiah Johnson  Ryan Walcott
2001	Cedric Bozeman (14)  Dijon Thompson (23)	Andre Patterson (34)	Michael Fey (94)
2002				Ryan Hollins  Matt McKinney
2003	Trevor Ariza			Brian Morrison  Jon Crispin
2004	Jordan Farmar (14)  Arron Afflalo (19)	Josh Shipp (49)	Lorenzo Mata (72)
2005		Ryan Wright (38)	Alfred Aboya (73)  Darren Collison (90)	L. Mbah a Moute  Michael Roll
2006		James Keefe (38)		Russell Westbrook  Nikola Dragovic
2007	Kevin Love (3)		Chase Stanback (89)
2008	Malcolm Lee (11)	Jerime Anderson (28)

 

Bruin Recruiting: Prep News Roundup (5/28)

By Bruin Basketball Report

Prep News Roundup is published every Monday.

Commits

The best high school
basketball tournament in the Bay Area takes place this weekend at Santa
Clara's Leavey Center. It's the fourth annual Patrick Dennehy Rumble in
the Bay, a three-day event starting Saturday that features 88 AAU teams
and some of the top recruits in the West. Among the players expected to participate: Archbishop Mitty's Drew
Gordon, who plays for the Oakland Soldiers and is headed to UCLA; Jrue
Holiday, the top-ranked shooting guard in the junior class; and Renardo
Sidney, the No.1 power forward in the sophomore class. San Jose Mercury News 5/25

Recruits

Jordan Hamilton, a 6-foot-8 sophomore, is expected to make an
unofficial visit to N.C. State on Monday after playing in the
tournament. Hamilton plays with the Lamar Odom I Can All-Stars. They open their play at 6:30 tonight at the Dail Center on the State campus. News Observer 5/25

Oak Hill Academy's Howard
"Trey" Thompkins, the 6-foot-8 power forward from Lithonia, ranked
among the top prospects in the country at his position, gave Georgia
his verbal commitment on Thursday. Rivals.com rates Thompkins the No. 6 power forward in the nation and No. 13 college prospect overall in the 2008 class. Atlanta Journal-Constitution 5/25

The University of North Carolina went cross country Tuesday night to
secure a commitment from basketball point guard Larry Drew Jr. Drew
is ranked among the best high school point guards in the country. As a
junior last season, he averaged 14.8 points and seven assists on a
Woodland Hills (Calif.) Taft High team that finished 20-4. News Observer 5/25

(photo credit: LA Times)