“From a team standpoint, I don’t know if there’s a better recipe for a team’s success than having your best player also being your most unselfish player,” fourth-year Coeur d’Alene boys basketball coach Jon Adams said.
“The reason I went after a lot of international kids was because, at the time, a lot of the local kids weren’t into NIC because of all the stuff we had going on,” Covill said. “They really weren’t into NIC because of the accreditation situation, so our roster wasn’t very big going into July. When we went from the NWAC to the NJCAA, I knew I had the ability to give full-ride scholarships, so I started to call some connections and they were emailing players.”
“By that time, Julius had a number of schools involved, and luckily, a lot of those fell through, and we were still able to get in the (recruiting) game,” Pribble said. A campus visit followed, and … the Vandals announced his signing in early May.
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