SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY -- Tim Doyle, a 6-6 crafty swingman from St. Dominic High School in Oyster Bay, New York, so far has had a solid summer. He recently completed competition at this past weekend's Metro Classic. Tim played with his high school team, St. Dominic, instead of playing at the Three Stripes Classic with the Long Island Panthers.

Doyle was impressive the first day at the Metro Classic. St. John's head coach Mike Jarvis watched him. But Tim said St. John's is not on his list as a serious school.

But our coaching sources have told us that St. John's is taking a look at him and is interested. Auburn approached AAU coach Gary Charles and expressed interest.

Doyle was remarkable at the recent ABCD camp, hitting over 70 percent of his shots. He got his teammates involved with nifty passes and he rotated the ball when necessary to get all of his teammates involved in a camp more known for selfish play.

Doyle has many middle division one schools pushing very hard on him. He would certainly be a steal for those schools. Doyle would be able to showcase his special skills right away and be one of the main guys there. These skills are most of the time overlooked by the "gurus" who only feast on dunks and blocks.

The skill of passing the ball or spotting a pass in the right location for a big man is never going to raise any player in the rankings. Tim Doyle will never be ranked high because he doesn't dunk or send a ball into stands on a block. He is just a smart player who makes others better. Doyle is a wonderful team player.

When Doyle plays with the Panthers, Jason Fraser becomes a better post threat. Reason? Doyle feeds him the ball in the proper location. You won't see Tim dropping the ball into the hands of a Fraser at the top of the key. These are situations always overlooked by the gurus who rate the players.

Doyle hit for 14 points in his first session at the ABCD camp on the campus of FDU. Doyle was seven for seven from the field. He showed a great ability to get to the basket against bigger people, scoring six of his buckets on drives to the rack. Doyle also hit a jumper. The knock against Doyle by some gurus is he is slow. But how does Doyle get to the basket so much if he is slow?

The other knock against Doyle is he doesn't take many perimeter shots. Doyle doesn't take many when he plays for the Panthers because Doyle reasons he is in there to create and find such offensive threats as Curtis Sumpter and Jason Fraser. Doyle does this well. Tim will take what the defense gives you.

Tim told us he remains focused on his summer and is not concerning himself with the recruiting part yet. Doyle is also a very good rebounder. He doesn't jump to the moon but he comes down with the ball, using his frame, size, and smarts.

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

"Once the July period is over I am going to take a look at some of the schools on my list," Doyle told us. "Then I am going to decide between whatever schools are still recruiting me. I want to decide in August."