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For those who don't remember Smith
Posted on: February 6, 2018 at 13:17:09 CT
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The Tigers recently signed their third recruit of the spring, guard Reggie Smith of Socastee High in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Smith, who is 6 feet 2, averaged 15.9 points, 12.7 assists and 5.6 rebounds a game this past season. As a junior, he was named co-player of the year on the Myrtle Beach Sun News' "Toast of the Coast" team, which encompasses a 16-high school area. He also made the Toast of the Coast team as a senior, although he did not earn player of the year honors. Smith's only other visits were to Western Carolina and Seward County (Kan.) Community College, a junior college. Smith said the Tigers first noticed him in an all-star game in Kansas City following college basketball's Final Four. "Somebody told me after the game that Missouri was interested in me," Smith said. He thought the person was joking, but soon found out otherwise. "Missouri had contacted my coach Dan D'Antoni before I even got home," Smith said. "Coach 'D' called me at 1 a.m. when I got home and told me." Even though Missouri is facing a possible probation from the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Smith said it wasn't hard to select Mizzou given his other choices.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/143044342/
Melvin Booker and Reggie Smith, unheralded out-of-staters, only had a chance to play for a team of MU's prominence because of 'its wobbly status with the NCAA.
"Coach was calling me 'Reggie,' and he was calling Reggie 'Melvin,' " Booker said. Booker cried when his parents left him in Columbia and gained little consolation from his mum roommate, Smith, who seemed obsessed with playing video games and gobbling fast food. "I remember how sad Melvin was," Missouri assistant coach Rich Daly said. "If he could have made a choice right then, he would have been home." But vital friendships with each other and their outgoing hallmates, Crudup and Frazier, soon blossomed.
Edited by FIJItiger at 13:18:21 on 02/06/18
The Tigers recently signed their third recruit of the spring, guard Reggie Smith of Socastee High in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Smith, who is 6 feet 2, averaged 15.9 points, 12.7 assists and 5.6 rebounds a game this past season. As a junior, he was named co-player of the year on the Myrtle Beach Sun News' "Toast of the Coast" team, which encompasses a 16-high school area. He also made the Toast of the Coast team as a senior, although he did not earn player of the year honors. Smith's only other visits were to Western Carolina and Seward County (Kan.) Community College, a junior college. Smith said the Tigers first noticed him in an all-star game in Kansas City following college basketball's Final Four. "Somebody told me after the game that Missouri was interested in me," Smith said. He thought the person was joking, but soon found out otherwise. "Missouri had contacted my coach Dan D'Antoni before I even got home," Smith said. "Coach 'D' called me at 1 a.m. when I got home and told me." Even though Missouri is facing a possible probation from the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Smith said it wasn't hard to select Mizzou given his other choices.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/143044342/
Melvin Booker and Reggie Smith, unheralded out-of-staters, only had a chance to play for a team of MU's prominence because of 'its wobbly status with the NCAA.
"Coach was calling me 'Reggie,' and he was calling Reggie 'Melvin,' " Booker said. Booker cried when his parents left him in Columbia and gained little consolation from his mum roommate, Smith, who seemed obsessed with playing video games and gobbling fast food. "I remember how sad Melvin was," Missouri assistant coach Rich Daly said. "If he could have made a choice right then, he would have been home." But vital friendships with each other and their outgoing hallmates, Crudup and Frazier, soon blossomed.
Edited by FIJItiger at 13:18:21 on 02/06/18
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RE: Again, not relevant. Does he have the stuff to be an upgrade - firstimecaller25 MU - 2/6 13:33:46For those who don't remember Smith - FIJItiger MU - 2/6 13:17:09