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Providence Jamfest Tips Off this Weekend

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The Providence Jamfest is being held this Saturday and Sunday at Rhode Island College and other sites throughout the state.  Annually one of featuring a loaded field, the Jamfest provides an opportunity local fans to catch some of the nation’s top high school players in action.

Jamfest alumni include many big names from the NBA and college basketball. Here is a highlight reel on Andre Drummond from the 2010 Providence Jamfest (note who no. 4 is on Drummond’s CBC team):

That 2010 Providence Jamfest was loaded and included many names very familiar to PC fans including Kris Dunn, Ricky Ledo, Naadir Tharpe, Khem Birch, Michael Carter Williams, Alex Murphy, Kaleb Tarczewski, and Tyler Harris.

This year’s Jamfest will showcase many of the top AAU programs from throughout the region, including the Mass Rivals, New England Playaz, Expressions Elite (16u and 15u teams), Sports U, Middlesex Magic, Albany City Rocks, and BABC (15 u team).

A complete listing of brackets for each age group can be found here. Rhode Island College will be hosting the 17 and under games all weekend and will also feature the 16 and under games on Sunday.

This year’s Jamfest will have several recruits who have been mentioned with Providence previously, including:

  • Arkel Ager-Lamar, 6’5 guard, Mass Rivals, St. Thomas More, 2016
  • Wenyen Gabriel, 6’9 forward, Mass Rivals,  Wilbraham & Monson, 2016
  • Chris Baldwin, 6’8 forward, Mass Rivals, Notre Dame Prep, 2016
  • Saul Phiri, 6’3 guard, Mass Rivals, Worcester Academy, 2016
  • Makai Ashton-Langford, 6’1 guard, Mass Rivals, Cushing Academy, 2017
  • Javon Taylor, 6’3 guard, Mass Rivals (16 u team), Beaver Country Day, 2017
  • Tomas Murphy, 6’8 forward, NE Playaz, Northfield Mount Hermon, 2017
  • Kellan Grady, 6’3 guard, NE Playaz, Northfield Mount Hermon, 2017
  • Jerome Desrosiers, 6’6 forward, NE Playaz, Northfield Mount Hermon, 2017
  • Tremont Waters, 5’10 guard, NE Playaz, South Kent School, 2017
  • Jordan Hardwick, 6’6 forward, Expressions Elite, Commonwealth Acad., 2017
  • Breein Tyree, 6’1 guard, Sports U, St. Joseph’s (NJ), 2017

Several other outstanding players will be on hand during the weekend including the top player in the class of 2018, 6’10 power forward Naz Reid of Sports U:

Reid is just one of several younger players who are scheduled to take part in the Providence Jamfest who are just starting to burst on the recruiting scene. Other names to watch out for include AJ Reeves (Mass Rivals class of 2018), Geo Baker (BABC class of 2017), Preston Santos (Expressions Elite and Bishop Hendricken class of 2018), Shandon Brown (BABC class of 2018), Walter Whyte (High Rise (CT) class of 2017), and Derrick Ellis (Expressions class of 2017). Several top 100 players could emerge from this list.

Play gets under way Saturday morning and runs through Sunday. You can find directions to Rhode Island College here.

Friarbasketball.com’s Kevin Farrahar and Craig Leighton will be on hand and will have complete coverage of the Jamfest. In addition, both RI Affiliated and BallasTV will be there filming the action so can be on the look out for some great mix-tapes of all the highlights.

email Craig at Craig.Leighton@friarbasketball.com

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