Juan Wheat Chooses A School
Juan Wheat, a 6-7, 230-pound power forward from Seventy-First High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina, has verbally committed to Yale University, according to his high school coach, Bernie Poole.
Wheat averaged 12 points and seven rebounds for Coach Poole last season playing alongside Ole Miss freshman point guard Justin Johnson, 6-8 Winthrop pledge Billy Houston, and junior point guard Casey
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Long, an ACC target.
Wheat chose Yale over interest from Princeton, Davidson, and Coastal Carolina.
Coastal Carolina had offered.
Wheat's high school team participates at the team camp at Coastal Carolina during the summer. Wheat bench-presses 300 pounds.
Wheat had taken an unofficial visit to Yale this summer, and later took an official visit to the New Haven, Connecticut, campus in October.
"It's always been a goal of his(to go to a strong academic school)," said Poole. "Academics come first with him, but he also loves the game of basketball."
Wheat is his class president at Seventy-First High School. He carries a 4.0 GPA and has broken 1100 on the SAT.
"Once he got turned onto Yale, that was really where he wanted to go," said Poole. "He realizes that academics will take him a lot further (than basketball)."
Wheat has gained admission to Yale.