Hollins has said he plans on making a decision in early November, after his visits and before his high school season begins.
Spencer Dinwiddie, a senior at Taft High School (Woodland Hills, Calif.) also has the Crimson as one of his leaders.
The 6’4.5”, 175-lb. point guard said early last week his final schools are Santa Clara, Harvard, Oregon, Colorado, Georgetown, UNLV, and Stanford. He currently holds offers from all of them except for Georgetown.
On his Facebook page last Friday, Dinwiddie said, “Colorado visit waz real kool..they def deserve to be in the list with Harvard and Oregon.”
“I got 6 but those 3 kinda separated themselves,” Dinwiddie also commented. He said yesterday that UCLA may be trying to re-recruit him.
Dinwiddie is rated a four-star recruit by ESPN and No. 29 at his position in the nation by Scout. Named the MVP of the Adidas Super 64 tournament in late July, Dinwiddie is ranked as the No. 8 player in the state of California by Cali High Sports, which called him “the best passer on the West Coast.”
“I definitely have the best relationship with the Harvard coaches out of all of them,” Dinwiddie said. “[Assistant coach Yanni Hufnagel] and coach [Tommy] Amaker have been very diligent in my recruitment. I’ve kind of grown attached to them, so it’ll be hard not to choose them. I also think the way they try to get up and down fits my style. And they say if I work hard, playing time will be there, and I’ll have the opportunity to start by the end of freshman year.”
Dinwiddie said he plans to sign during the early signing period in November.
The other confirmed weekend visitor to Cambridge is Steve Moundou-Missi, a 6’6, 225-lb combination forward from Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fl.) The Cameroon native, who came to the United States two years ago, said last week that he is interested in the Crimson, Brown, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and Vanderbilt. He currently has offers from Brown, Morehead State, and Harvard, but has no favorite and no other visits planned.
Amaker is looking to add to an existing recruiting class of one: Jonah Travis (Minneapolis, Minn.), who committed to the Crimson last month. Travis will be coming to campus this weekend as well, with the explicit goal of convincing his fellow high school seniors to join him next year.
The only way Amaker and his staff will be able to achieve their dream of gaining Harvard men’s basketball a place on the national stage—not to mention its first Ivy title—is by drawing in higher level talent. The road to building “something special,” as Amaker is so fond of saying, could potentially have its foundation laid this weekend.
—Staff writer Dennis J. Zheng can be reached at dzheng12@college.harvard.edu.