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RECRUITING NOTEBOOK: JUAN’YA GREEN UPDATE; MORE INTEREST IN TARIQ CAREY

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BY JEFF BORZELLO

With one of the top players in Philadelphia’s class of 2011, John Johnson, committing to Pittsburgh last week, what does the picture look like for another prospect from the City of Brotherly Love?

Juan’ya Green, a 6-3 guard from Archbishop Carroll (Pa.), has long been considered a strong Villanova lean. However, Green said he has no favorite at this point.

“Right now my options are kinda open,” he said, “so I have to take a visit on a couple of schools and see what I like.”

Green has a long and varied school list, ranging from the ACC and Big East to the CAA and Atlantic-10. When asked, he named: “Villanova, Maryland, St. Joe’s, Temple, Syracuse, Georgetown, Virginia Tech, George Mason, Indiana, Wisconsin, Notre Dame – that’s all I can think of right now.”

Of those schools, Temple, Maryland, Saint Joseph’s, George Mason and Villanova have offered him.

Green has only taken one visit thus far, to Temple, and does not have anymore planned for the near future.

Although he is not close to making a decision, he knows what he is looking for in a school.

“A good athletic and academic program and a school I know that I’m going to have success in,” he said.

Carey picks up new interest

Ever since we wrote our class of 2012 introduction on Tariq Carey, it seems that the 6-foot-1 guard from Newark Eastside (N.J.) is picking up new schools every week. The most recent one is a fast-paced program from the Big 12.

“I just picked up Missouri!” Carey said in a text message. “I think I fit in the type of play; I love being in the open court.”

While the Tigers did not extend an offer, Carey was confident they would once they watched him this season.

“They might just have to see me play more in order to make that decision,” he said. “I think by this upcoming summer, the offers should start coming in or by the high school [season]. I have to prove myself in high school and in AAU, then they should most likely come.”

The interest is certainly increasing, and far-reaching, as Carey added recently as a follow-up that Arkansas has also entered the picture.

Additionally, with Carey becoming more of a national name, some people might expect him to leave his AAU team, Team New Jersey Elite, and join a squad that is more widely known across the country.

Carey doesn’t plan on it, though.

“That’s the team I first got exposure with,” he said. “I won’t feel comfortable playing anywhere else.

“I love my coaches Gaylen and Jerry. Me and my teammates [have] been together since 8th grade and we mesh well so this year we will do good again. I have a good feeling!”

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