VirginiaPreps.com has released its listing of the

School and Prep School basketball players for the upcoming season. 

Atop the listing is Josh Smith a 6’8” combination forward who has

verbally committed to Indiana who attends

Oak

Hill

Academy.  There has been a lot of discussion

that Smith may by-pass college altogether and go straight to the NBA – ah-la

Lebron James. The site’s #2 rated player is Isaiah Swann who played last year

at Oak Hill and is ‘prepping’ this season at

Hargrave

Military

Academy.  Swann has given a verbal

commitment to the Florida State Seminoles.  The

highest rated ‘public school’ player on the list is Marquie Cooke of Nansemond

River

High School.  The talented point guard will be

attending Virginia Tech after committing to Seth Greenberg and the Hokies last

month.  The top 5 is rounded out by

Brian Johnson a 6’9” forward/center who recently transferred to Oak Hill

Academy from Bishop O’Connell and has subsequently committed to Rick Pitino

and the Louisville Cardinals, and at number 5 is another public school player

– Tyree Evans, a 6’3” swing player from George Wythe High School in

Richmond who is also being recruited as a football player and may attempt to

play both sports in college.

As usual the listing is dominated by non public school

players. Oak

Hill

Academy, Hargrave

Military

Academy

and

Fork

Union

Military

Academy

combined to place 16 players on the listing. 

While Oak Hill only enrolls players with that have high school

eligibility remaining, both Fork Union and Hargrave have players that have

exhausted their high school eligibility but may be attempting to improve their

grades or visibility (or both) in order to obtain a Division One scholarship. 

Many of the players that attend these schools are not native Virginians,

and some may argue should not be included.  Since

they are playing basketball in the Old Dominion this winter – they are listed. 

Other private schools such as Blue Ridge School, Faith Christian Academy,

The Potomac School (not to be confused the Potomac Senior High School), and

others account for an additional 29 players on the list. 

Being able to discern which players are native to the state and which are

not, which are true seniors or not becomes very difficult so the listing

contains all senior or post grads that we are aware of that deserved to be in

the top 100.

 The quality in this year’s listing appears strong, with 24 players already

made verbal commitments to Division 1 schools. 

Another 2 players on the list have given verbal commitments to D1

football programs. 

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The

Commonwealth Classic and VirginiaPreps.com

are proud to provide the pre-season

Top 100 seniors in all the state of

Virginia

. Unlike year’s past, this year’s list

includes prep and high school players. This year’s Commonwealth Classic will

invite players from the prep, private, and public ranks to showcase to wide

array of talent present within this great state. The Commonwealth Classic is

open to high school seniors only, and this March will be the fourth edition of

this high school basketball game. VirginiaPreps.com will provide a mid-season

and post season Top 100. Nominations for the Top 100 and the Commonwealth

Classic can be sent to vapreps@aol.com.

The

Class of 2005 will be released next week and to be followed by the Class

of 2006.