The Villanova Wildcats have been hot on the recruiting trail lately and have certainly been reaping the obvious benefits of winning a National Championship as they did earlier this year in April. Those benefits seeped through Saturday afternoon when the ‘Cats picked up a verbal commit from a Top 50 player in the Class of 2017.
Jermaine Samuels of Weston, Massachusetts has decided to commit to Jay Wright and Villanova University. Samuels had high-major blue bloods gunning for his services, as Duke, Kansas, and Indiana among others were in the hunt as well as fellow Big East rep Georgetown.