Bradley picks up Chicago point guard
Not only is Bradley in the Sweet 16, but the Braves also picked up a junior commitment from Sammy Maniscalco. The 6-foot, 175-pound point guard from St. Patrick's High School in Chicago, Ill., will follow in his father's footsteps as a second generation point guard for Bradley.
"Sammy is a tough, hard nosed player who comes from a basketball family," said Maniscalco's AAU coach Mike Mullins of the Illinois Wolves. "His father played point at Bradley.
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"He can shoot it and handle it and he's a tenacious defender. They got him early and that's a good thing. They didn't want him to get away, since he is from the Bradley family."
Maniscalco averaged 23 points per game this season and scored over 30 points on five occasions. One of those games was against the then number one ranked team in the state St. Joseph's, whom two of his AAU teammates Evan Turner and Demetri McCamey.
Loyola Chicago and Wisconsin-Green Bay had offered Maniscalco, and he was also getting interest from DePaul.