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basketball recruiting the top center and No. 3 overall player forward Colson. in the nation by 247Sports. He has Colson, the son of former Rhode Isa Notre Dame offer, but will be get- land standout and Boston College asting plenty of attention from all of the sistant coach Bonzie Colson Sr., leaped country's top basketball programs. on to Notre Dame's radar after a strong Govan is the third-best player in New prep league postseason ended with York, the sixth-best him being named center nationally the Ocean State's and the No. 44 Gatorade Player overall prospect of the Year. The in his class accord6-41⁄2, 213-pounder ing to 247Sports. averaged a doubleHe has scholardouble during St. ship offers on the Andrew's School's table already from run to the AA New UConn, Cincinnati, England Prep Virginia, Miami School championand Arizona. At 15 ship game. years old, he is still S t . A n d re w ' s head coach Mimore concerned chael Hart, an old with improving his friend of Brey's, game than where said Colson rehe will eventually minded him of forland down the mer Irish basketroad. ball player Tyrone The junior-to-be Nash. got his first in-per"He can put the son look at Notre Bonzie Colson, a 6-41⁄2, 213-pound small forward Dame this March who is currently unranked by 247Sports, was ball on the floor when he attended named the Gatorade Player of the Year in Rhode and shoot it a little bit. He is very the final Big East Island as a junior. Photo by Jacey Zembal long and has a lot To u r n a m e n t a t Madison Square Garden. He saw the of crafty ways to score," Hart said in Irish lose to Louisville in the semifinal a May interview shortly after Notre round and also watched the final con- Dame offered a scholarship. "He plays ference game between rivals Syracuse hard, is a very good defensive player — not the best athlete — but gets the and Georgetown. "That was huge," he said. "The atmo- job done." Colson is unranked by 247Sports. He sphere was crazy out there." Brey also spent time watching the currently has offers from Florida State, New England-based BABC club dur- Pittsburgh, Northeastern, Rhode Island ing the week, specifically 2014 small and Iowa State, among others. ✦