DCA Classic This Weekend!

If you are in the Washington DC Area this weekend, you will get a chance to see Duke's highest ranked commit for 2011 Michael Gbinije and one of the top 2011 Recruits in Quinn Cook battle in the last sanctioned event of the Summer AAU circuit.

For more details, go to the I95Ballerz website here.

If you're going to see these two Duke targets, be at St. Stephens High School for Gbinije's game at 2 PM as he and his Team Takeover DC battle Team Finesse.

Stick around for the 4:30 PM matchup as Quinn's DC Assault(Gold) team battles Atlas Basketball.

The schedule doesn't leave much room for pool play, so I'm assuming they'll add some more games tomorrow, but if not you'll at least get a chance to watch Michael and Quinn compete. Watch out for James Robinson (2012 guard) for Team Takeover and Torian Graham (2012 guard) for DC Assault (Gold) as they may get some Duke interest in the future...

The DC Assault website only has the schedules up for the younger kids, so check back tomorrow to see if there have been any updates: DC Assault

Here's a map for St. Stephen's High School if you're unfamiliar:


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Quinn Cook and DC Assault Photos

Lara Lee got a chance to catch 2011 recruit Quinn Cook and his DC Assault play while in Las Vegas. If you haven't been introduced to Quinn through our blog, or else where, you must be new here and to Duke recruiting. Check out a couple of our earlier stories on Quinn here:


Quinn Cook to Oak Hill Academy?

Quinn Cook Has Duke At the Top of His List

And the gallery from Vegas

Torian Graham

Photo credit to Scout.com

Duke Hoop has spoken with 2012 SG Torian Graham's father, Len Lilly. Torian has a pretty long list of potential suitors at this time. Len named the following schools that were pursuing the Oak Hill Academy and DC Assault stud the hardest:

Boston College, Xavier, NC State, Rutgers, Kansas State, Miami, Oregon, Depaul, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Maryland, VCU, Richmond, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Cincinnatie, and Indiana

As you can see, there are some high major schools interested in the rising Junior and they would all be lucky to get his services. At this time, Boston College, NC State, Xavier, and Kansas State have offered scholarships. He does not have a leader at this time.

Len informed us that Torian's goal is to be recruited by Duke and UNC and if he continues to develop as he already has, we are guessing that goal will become a reality.

Watch him at the NC Pro-Am on Team Navy this Thursday here in Durham as he is one of only a few 2012 players invited to perform in the Summer League composed of mainly pros and college stars.