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Report: 2016 point guard Myles Powell trims list to five

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One of the top guards in the Northeast, Myles Powell has been on the receiving end of recruiting attention from more than a few top programs. Thursday night it was reported by SNY.tv that Powell, who will finish his high school career at South Kent Prep in Connecticut, has cut his list from eight schools to five.

The five schools that remain on the list are Connecticut, DePaul, Pittsburgh, Seton Hall and VCU. Georgetown, Georgia Tech and Saint Joseph’s, which were on the list Powell revealed in late July after playing for the Playaz Basketball Club (NJ), are the three programs that did not make the cut.

UConn, which will lose three seniors from its backcourt at the end of the 2015-16 season, has already landed one point guard in the Class of 2016 in Georgia native Alterique Gilbert. The Huskies also have freshman Jalen Adams, but playing multiple point guards at the same time has been something that head coach Kevin Ollie has been more than willing to do since he’s taken over the program.

DePaul has also landed a guard in the Class of 2016 (Devin Gage), but with players such as Billy Garrett Jr., Darick Wood and Aaron Simpson all being upperclassmen there’s a need for depth moving forward. Pittsburgh, which has a senior point guard in James Robinson, has a need to address at the position especially with Josh Newkirk’s decision to transfer to Indiana.

Seton Hall is young on the perimeter, with Kansas State transfer Jevon Thomas sitting out this season, but they also have a need to fill at the point and landing Powell would help in that regards. The Pirates will be led on the perimeter this season by sophomores Isaiah Whitehead and Khadeen Carrington and grad student Derrick Gordon. As for VCU, the Rams may not have a senior at the point, but Powell’s perimeter shooting ability would help them account for the eventual loss of senior shooting guard Melvin Johnson.

According to the report, Powell will begin setting up official visits in the very near future.