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Three-star power forward trims list to five

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Rivals.com

After attending the NBPA Top 100 Camp in late June and playing on a Utah Prospects team that included five-star guard Frank Jackson, 6-foot-7 power forward Yoeli Childs has been on the receiving end of increased attention recruiting-wise in recent weeks. Saturday it was revealed that Childs has trimmed his list to five schools, with two SEC programs making the cut.

Auburn and Vanderbilt, two programs that will have some key front court personnel losses to address after the 2015-16 season, remain under consideration for Childs as do Boise State, BYU and Princeton. While Childs, who attends Bingham HS in South Jordan, Utah, has yet to take an official visit he has unofficially visited both Boise State and BYU.

According to Scout.com, Childs hopes to wrap up his recruitment in time for the early signing period in mid-November.

From a personnel standpoint Auburn will lose three front court players at the end of the 2015-16 season in Cinmeon Bowers, Jordon Granger and Tyler Harris (grad student by way of Providence). The Tigers have just three scholarship front court players who will have eligibility beyond the upcoming season in sophomore Trayvon Reed and freshmen Horace Spencer and Danjel Purifoy (who’s more of a wing than an interior player).

As for Boise State, the Broncos don’t have a scholarship senior in their front court but they do have two juniors in Nick Duncan and James Webb III. Accounting for those eventual departures is a key for head coach Leon Rice and his staff. BYU is in a similar situation as Boise State, however the Cougars will welcome back multiple front court players from their respective LDS missions in 2016-17 including Eric Mika and Payton Dastrup.

Princeton has just one senior in its front court heading into 2015-16 in Hans Brase, but he’s an important player for the Tigers whose departure will need to be accounted for. And while Vanderbilt has just one scholarship senior in the front court in center Josh Harrison, both Damian Jones and Luke Kornet will be juniors.