Still looking for best fit
The cliché of basketball being a game of runs is certainly the case for James Still, 6-foot-8, 205-pound big man from Detroit (Mich.) Community, and his teammates this season.
After starting the year 0-5, Community is riding a seven-game winning streak and looking strong down the home stretch.
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"We knew what we needed to do," Still said. "We had to make our free throws. We had to hit those."
The big man is also doing what big men do – rebound and block shots.
"I've been in the weight room a lot over the summer and my strength is helping me out a lot," Still said. "I've been more aggressive and I'm getting more rebounds now…(Coach) wants me to go out there and just give it to them in the past seven games."
Still, a top 65 nationally rated junior, said recruiting has intensified this season.
"There are more letters and more phone calls and all of that," Still said. "Oh, and the coaches are coming out, too."
Coaches from Michigan, Michigan State, Xavier, Iowa and Purdue have been in to see him, Still said.
Xavier, Purdue, Memphis and "all of the MAC schools" have offered him early in the process, he added. Still has unofficially visited Central Michigan, Western Michigan, Bowling Green, Purdue and Michigan State. Baylor and SMU are also in the picture, he said.
"Nobody is really standing out to me right now," Still said.
"The school that fits me the best and cares about me is where I'm going to go to. The small campus type of school is what I'm looking for and a team that gets up and down the floor a lot would fit me the best."