Former St. John’s basketball prospect Trey Patterson commits to Villanova
Former St. John’s basketball recruit Trey Patterson committed to the Villanova Wildcats on Thursday evening.
The recruitment of Trey Patterson and the St. John’s basketball program was rather strange, but it ended in a predictable commitment.
Patterson, a star at Rutgers Preparatory (N.J.), committed to head coach Jay Wright and the Villanova Wildcats on Thursday evening after cutting the Red Storm from his final list of contenders about three weeks ago.
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The 6-foot-7 small forward narrowed his list of schools to Memphis, Florida, Connecticut, Villanova, Maryland, Indiana, Tennessee, Rutgers, Auburn, and Arkansas prior to making his future plans known.
St. John’s only extended a scholarship to the forward on May 14 after a strange process where he was originally being recruiting by former head coach Chris Mullin and the previous coaching staff.
The Somerset, New Jersey native attended the program’s Midnight Madness prior to the 2016 season and wrote in a blog that he enjoyed it more than the event Rutgers University put on that he also attended.
In the blog post he noted meeting St. John’s alumni and artist J. Cole while enjoying the performance by Desiigner.
Patterson also took an unofficial visit to St. John’s back on June 21, 2017 but all was quiet on the recruiting front as Mullin never offered the four-star prospect.
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The newest Villanova Wildcat was ranked as the No. 35 player in the country, according to the 247 Sports Composite Rankings, in addition to being the No. 8 small forward in the class and the No. 2 prospect in the state of New Jersey.
Trey Patterson is now the second Class of 2021 prospect to join Villanova, along with
Nnanna Njoku, as the Wildcats look to have one of the nation’s best incoming classes in two years.
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However, Jay Wright does not have an incoming recruit for the Class of 2020.
As St. John’s will boast a five-man recruiting class in 2020, head coach Mike Anderson is still looking to land his first commitment from a player in the Class of 2021.