Tag: St. Louis Basketball

Men’s college basketball breakout Robbie Avila gave an understandable reason for transferring to St. Louis

Robbie Avila has picked his new team, and it makes a ton of sense as to why.

One of this past men’s college basketball season’s breakout stars has found a new team.

Former Indiana State center Robbie Avila, the man with the best nicknames in the game, shared with The Field of 68 on Saturday that he’ll be following coach Josh Schertz to St. Louis to join the Billikens this upcoming season as a transfer.

Avila said he got attention from Power 5 schools, but he chose to stick with the coach he played for these past few seasons at Indiana State.

It’s a very understandable decision for Avila, as he’ll be joining a coach he’s got intense familiarity with as he tries to improve his game and perhaps make it at the NBA level one day.

St. Louis will absolutely benefit from adding one of the real mid-major stars from this past year, as we won’t be shocked if the Billikens go dancing next spring in 2025’s March Madness.

We’re very excited to see what’s next for Avila as his college basketball legend will grow in the Show Me State.

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Michigan State Basketball offers 4-star power forward Tarris Reed Jr.

Michigan State Men’s Basketball has extended an offer to 4-star PF Tarris Reed Jr. from St. Louis.

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Tom Izzo has already assembled quite the 2022 recruiting class for Michigan State Basketball with the addition of 5-stars Emoni Bates and Enoch Boakye (although both players could still reclassify to 2021). It doesn’t look like Izzo is content to rest on his laurels and is still out on the recruiting trail recruiting high-level talent for the 2022 class. The latest recruiting target for Izzo is 4-star St. Louis power forward Tarris Reed Jr. out of Chaminade High School.

Tarris Reed is a 6’10”, 230 lbs forward and the top player in the state of Missouri for 2022. He is a top 100 player who is ranked No. 16 at his position by the 247Sports rankings.

Reed’s head coach at Chaminade Frank Bennett had this to say about the star power forward:

“Tarris is a load, he can score down low, he’s very physical and to be honest with you he’s just scratching the surface which is really exciting,” he told KSDK in St. Louis.

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Reed announced the offer on Thursday night. You can check out his highlights here.

Reed already has additional offers out from Creighton, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Saint Louis, Xavier, and Kansas, and you can expect more to roll in as his recruitment heats up.

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