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Is Ohio State recruit trying to get Staten to ?de-commit? to UD?
By Tom Archdeacon | Friday, July 17, 2009


Juwan Staten

Word is that Ohio State continues ? covertly and overtly ? to recruit Juwan Staten, who has verbally committed to the University of Dayton for the 2010 - 2011 season.

Other schools are still trying to lure Staten away from the Flyers as well, but none more so than OSU, which according to ESPNU already has the top recruiting class in the nation for 2010.

One of those future Bucks, 6-foot-9, 262-pound Columbus Northland senior Jared Sullinger ? Ohio?s Mr. Basketball last season and ESPNU?s No. 4 college prospect in the nation ? plays with Staten this summer on their Ohio All Red team, one of the best AAU teams in the nation.

All-Ohio Red just won the Nike Peach Jam U-17 championship in Augusta , Ga. by defeating the Philadelphia/South Jersey based Team Final, 62-53. Sullinger had 19 points and 21 rebounds. Staten had 13 points.

Sullinger is regularly in Staten?s ear trying to get him to ?de-commit to UD and come to Ohio State? said one person close to the situation. He?s really trying to get him to back out of his Dayton agreement and become a Buckeye.

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