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How Sindarius Thornwell is inspiring one South Carolina recruit this AAU season

Dillon Jones, a 2020 South Carolina basketball recruiting target, provides an update on April 13, 2019. By

As a kid coming up through the basketball ranks in South Carolina, Dillon Jones is, naturally, a Sindarius Thornwell follower.

Thornwell, a second-year guard for the Los Angeles Clippers, is a Lancaster product. From that city of 9,000 in the northern part of the state, Thornwell went to Oak Hill Academy in Virginia and then came home for an outstanding career with the Gamecocks, ending with an SEC Player of the Year award and a Final Four berth.