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Dont' know anything about this kid, but the Dispatch is reporting that he will visit this weekend.
Buckeyes catch power forward’s eye
Junior-college player will drop in for visit during the weekend to check out school
Friday, September 02, 2005
Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
A junior-college power forward who has an offer to become the fifth member of Ohio State’s touted 2006 recruiting class will visit campus this weekend and is "intrigued" by the possibility of playing at the school, his coach said yesterday.
Othello Hunter, a 6-foot-9, 215-pound native of Winston-Salem, N.C., has played basketball only three years but was first-team all-conference at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Fla., last season. He averaged 8.8 points and 5.8 rebounds per game and shot 54.6 percent from the field.
"He’s a diamond in the rough," Hillsborough coach Derrick Worrels said. "Ohio State’s coaches have been doing their homework and then some. They’ve been here (since March) and (Hunter) knows that. Coach (Thad) Matta has been here twice."
Worrels said Hunter already has visited Colorado and is scheduled to also visit Texas-El Paso "unless he commits to Ohio State" before then.
Since gaining commitments earlier this year from highschool standouts Greg Oden, Daequan Cook, David Lighty and Mike Conley Jr., Matta and his staff have spent the summer trying to round out the class with a power forward who can complement the other four by stretching defenses, rebounding and defending.
Canton McKinley senior Raymar Morgan is still on OSU’s radar, but speculation on recruiting Web sites has Morgan favoring Michigan State and Michigan over the Buckeyes.
Morgan’s mother, Carole, said this week that her son will not visit Ohio State next weekend for the Texas football game, which Oden, Cook, Lighty and Conley are expected to attend. Instead, Morgan will be at Michigan, which plays Notre Dame.
Morgan will visit Ohio State on Sept. 17 for the San Diego State football game, his mother said, but has not scheduled a date to visit Michigan State.
Ohio State has three more scholarships available for the class of 2006.
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