Come 2013, the Ohio men’s basketball team will be sporting some size in the paint.
The Bobcats got a verbal commitment from recruit Anthony Allen this week indicating that the 7-footer will be wearing the green and white for the 2013-2014 season.
Allen, a current College of Southern Idaho freshman, played high school ball in Bridgeport, Conn., before making the jump to the Scenic West Athletic Conference. Allen was an academic non-qualifier out of high school, leading him to enroll at CSI, a junior college.
He rounded out his Bassick High School career by falling to Northwest Catholic in the Connecticut state quarterfinals last season.
Allen would be the biggest player in the Mid-American Conference if he were enrolled at Ohio for the 2011-2012 season. Zeke Marshall, an Akron junior, and DaShonte Riley, a sophomore who transferred to Eastern Michigan from Syracuse, are the only other 7-footers currently in the league. Allen is listed at 235 pounds, outweighing both Marshall and Riley.
Allen is the second member of the Bobcat class of 2013. Evan Bradds, a Greeneview High School junior, verbally committed to Ohio at the end of July.
Bradds is following in the steps of his father and grandfather, who played basketball for Dayton and Ohio State, respectively.
Jim Ryan
For The Post | jr992810@ohiou.edu
