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St. John’s basketball offers highly touted freshman from Canada

By Kevin Connelly

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 10: St. John's basketball head coach Mike Anderson during the Big East Conference Basketball Media Day at Madison Square Garden on October 10, 2019, in New York City. (Photo by Porter BInks/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 10: St. John's basketball head coach Mike Anderson during the Big East Conference Basketball Media Day at Madison Square Garden on October 10, 2019, in New York City. (Photo by Porter BInks/Getty Images) /
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The St. John’s basketball program offered one of the best high school freshman in North America, Class of 2023 standout Elijah Fisher.

It might be eventually too late to build a relationship with a recruit or a prospect, but it’s certainly never too early and that’s what Mike Anderson and the St. John’s Red Storm are doing.

The Johnnies recently offered Class of 2023 prospect Elijah Fisher, one of the top prospect in all of North America and perhaps the next basketball star to come from Canada.

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Jake Weingarten of StockRisers was the first to report the Red Storm offering the 6-foot-7, 215 pound wing.

Although St. John’s is connecting with the prospect very early in his recruitment, Mike Anderson’s program is not the first school to extend an offer to Fisher.

Fisher also holds offers from West Virginia, Seton Hall, Memphis, Texas A&M, Florida, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Oregon, Ole Miss, Southern California, Western Kentucky, and Morgan State.

Weingarten also reported that Morgan State, an HBCU (Historically black colleges and universities), is hoping to get Fisher on its campus for an unofficial visit whenever that is allowed by the NCAA and health experts around the country.

In an exclusive blog post written by Elijah Fisher for Sports Illustrated, he mentioned those schools as the ones that are recruiting him the hardest, but he acknowledges that there are other programs who will also be recruiting him after he completes his freshman year at Crestwood Prep College in Toronto.

Fisher also plays on the Adidas AAU Circuit for Grassroots Elite Canada.

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The blog post was published on May 21 and Fisher noted that his school year ended on June 12.

Despite the heavy restrictions of quarantine, the budding star said that’s he has been able to get into the gym and workout, not just on the floor but also in the weight room.

Fisher will be continuing his blog series for Sports Illustrated  throughout his high school career and recruitment.

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St. John’s has been linked to other Class of 2023 prospects, but Elijah Fisher is the first rising sophomore that the Red Storm have offered.

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