TEANECK, NEW JERSEY -- Tim Doyle, a 6-6 crafty swingman from St. Dominic High School in Oyster Bay, New York, showed again this past weekend that he will have to endure a lot of the offensive load as well as the rebounding responsibilites this winter for coach Rob Pavinelli's team.

Doyle participated in the Big Apple Classic held on the campus of FDU this past weekend. Doyle was brilliant throughout the two games we saw on Saturday. He is one of the best passers in the country and a deceptive rebounder.

Doyle doesn't jump to the moon but he somehow uses his frame, arms, and hands to outbattle bigger bodies for the basketball. And you are usually treated to a different type of pass each event that you watch Doyle. In his first game against Poly Prep, Doyle tossed a two-handed behind the head pass from deep in the right corner all the way across to deep in the left corner. He found his open teammate with the pass.

Doyle told us he is wide open in his recruiting process but has heard from schools like Davidson, Santa Clara, Northwestern, Princeton, George Mason, Columbia, and Yale.

Doyle will play with the Long Island Panthers this summer. He played well this spring. Besides his solid performance at the Big Apple Classic, he put on a show last at LIU recently, according to his AAU coach, Gary Charles. "You missed one of the best performances," Charles told us. "He won the crowd over with his dazzling passes and the way he played. He was the crowd pleaser. They loved him."

It's easy to love Doyle. He is a great kid and a hard working player. Doyle is one of the fun players to watch in the class of 2002. He can pass equally effective with both hands. He sometimes shoots with either hand -- and that sometimes includes foul shots!

Don't blink when you watch him or you will miss a nifty pass that either comes from behind his back or behind his head. "Tim is a guy who makes the players around him so much better," said his AAU coach Gary Charles of the Long Island Panthers.