Category Archives: Recruiting

Joel Hernandez joins LIU Brooklyn for 2013-14

It has been a good week for the LIU Brooklyn men’s basketball team. Earlier this week, head coach Jack Perri and his staff landed Iverson Fleming and today we learned that they have signed Joel Hernandez from Teaneck High School in New Jersey. Both Adam Zagoria and Alex Kline, two of the leading recruiting experts had the scoop on it Saturday morning on their Twitter feeds this morning. Read the rest of this entry

Iverson Fleming commits to LIU Brooklyn for 2013-14

It looks like LIU Brooklyn has added another player to the fold for the 2013-14 season. On Thursday evening, recruiting guru Alex Kline tweeted the following:

Iverson Fleming is a 6’1″ guard from North Brunswick High School in New Jersey. He originally committed to Hofstra over LIU back in December but de-committed after Hofstra head coach Mo Cassara was fired back on March 22nd. Read the rest of this entry

2013 LIU Brooklyn commit Jahmal Lane set to go for next season

Good news continues to come the Blackbirds way as today it is known that 2013 commit Jahmal Lane out of St. Benedict’s Prep (post-grad) in Newark, New Jersey has gotten the necessary score on his SAT exam to be eligible right away for head coach Jack Perri and the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds in the coming 2013-14 season. Read the rest of this entry

LIU Brooklyn officially announce the signings of Chris Carter and Nura Zanna for next season

Today, LIU Brooklyn athletics officially announced the signings of 6’7″ forward Chris Carter out of Wake Technical Community College in North Carolina and 6’7″ forward Nura Zanna out of Coral Springs Christian Academy in Florida to play for LIU Brooklyn in the 2013-14 season.

You can read the official announcement on LIU Brooklyn athletics’ website here along with quotes from LIU Brooklyn head coach Jack Perri on each player.

Blackbirds Hoops Journal had the signing of Nura Zanna back in October as well as the signing of Chris Carter back in November. You can read the Zanna post here as well as the Carter post here. Read the rest of this entry

LIU Brooklyn gets a third player commitment for ’13-’14

6’8″ forward Chris Carter of Wake Tech CC commits to play for LIU Brooklyn next season. Photo credit: rivals.com

This morning, Adam Zagoria of zagsblog.com tweeted out this:

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LIU Brooklyn gets their second commit for ’13-’14

Today is the first day of the early signing period for basketball recruits to commit to their school of choice for next season. LIU Brooklyn is expected to get a National Letter of Intent from Nura Zanna who I wrote about when he first announced his commitment to LIU Brooklyn back on October 15th.

Late last night, Alex Kline of therecruitscoop.com tweeted this: Read the rest of this entry

LIU Brooklyn gets verbal commitment from Nura Zanna

LIU Brooklyn’s newest commit Nura Zanna (Photo Courtesy of RadarHoops)

According to several recruiting experts including Adam Zagoria, Alex Kline and Zach Braziller, LIU Brooklyn today landed a verbal commitment for 6’7″ power forward Nura Zanna out of Coral Springs Christian Acadamy in Coral Springs, Florida. Zagoria noted in another tweet that Zanna is the younger brother of Talib Zanna who is currently a redshirt junior at the University of Piitsburgh. Read the rest of this entry