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Amaker Welcomes Touted Prospects

“The schools that are getting visits, I really want to see what they have to offer. There’s something about those schools,” said Domingo, dubbed the 28th-best player in the nation by ESPN and called one of the best prospects on the West Coast by Telep.

MORE TEAMMATES, MORE FRIENDS

Converging in Cambridge will be another a pair of AAU teammates, Davon Reed and Austin Colbert.

Reed, a consensus four-star guard standing at 6’5” and 190 pounds with a 6’10 wingspan, holds offers from Boston College, St. Joseph’s, Temple, and Xavier (among others) and will be visiting Virginia Commonwealth next weekend.

“The way he and Austin [Colbert] carry themselves—it’s rare today, especially rare for elite athletes, to be that humble, that well-spoken, and that level-headed,” said Paris McLean, Reed’s coach at Princeton Day School (N.J.).

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“He’s a really good scorer, he can shoot the ball, can get to the rim well,” Borzello said. “I think he’s a top-50 guy in the class.”

According to Fred Benjamin, his coach at the Hotchkiss School (Conn.), the majority of Big East schools are showing interest in junior Austin Colbert, including North Carolina, Louisville, Villanova, and Xavier.

“Another four-man who has a tremendous amount of natural ability,” Telep said of Colbert, Scout’s No. 7 power forward in the country. “He is a face-up ‘4’ who can give you something on the defensive end as well.”

The final visitor will be 6’7, 215-lb Alex Foster, rated four stars and No. 82 in his class by MaxPreps.com.

Foster has visited Valparaiso and Tennessee—which he said are his only offers so far—and is interested in Wake Forest, DePaul, and Notre Dame.

“Me and [Coach Hufnagel] have been tight ever since [we met],” Foster said. “He calls me his ‘little brother.’ Me and Coach Amaker, we’ve only talked once, but I’m sure he’s a pretty cool guy just like Yanni is.”

“Butler’s heavy on him,” Borzello said of the De La Salle Institute (Ill.) junior. “He runs the floor well.”

It’s hard to imagine that the weekend could have had an additional blue-chipper. Junior guard Nigel Williams-Goss of Findlay Prep (Ariz.), rated 40th in the country by Rivals.com, said he would have liked to visit but could not, due to his school’s travel schedule.

‘A VERY, VERY BIG DEAL’

Regardless, the significance of this weekend for Harvard basketball cannot be understated.

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