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Alex Owens Fails to Qualify, Will Enroll at Tallahassee CC
Alex Owens will not be a Providence Friar. Owens failed to achieve a qualifying ACT score and will attend Tallahassee Community College this year. Owens had an academic red flag when he wasn’t qualified to play basketball as a freshman in high school but the Providence coaching staff remained optimistic Owens could get the score he needed. Bob Simon was the lead recruiter on Owens prior to leaving Providence for Alabama.
This shuts the door on Owens attending Providence and also officially frees up another scholarship for Ed Cooley. That means Cooley and his staff have 2 open ships to play with should a player become available that they believe can help their roster, whether via transfer or incoming freshman. Owens was the highest rated recruit in the 2015 class for the Friars but he also likely wouldn’t have been able to contribute much on the court until probably Janaury due to a torn ACL he suffered in mid-February 2015.
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[…] The Friars did bring in IMG Academy big man Quadree Smith in June but they clearly want another big body up front to help offset the inexplicable transfer of 7’2 rising sophomore Paschal Chukwu who was in line to start for Cooley’s Friars in 2015-16. Jones is only big in the sense that he is 6’9. The Los Angeles native lacks Smith’s girth at the present time but has skill and is ranked 162nd nationally in the class of 2015 by 247sports.com’s composite national ranking. That ranking means he would become the highest ranked player in Providence’s incoming class of 2015 after Alex Owens — ranked 138th by the same composite national ranking — failed to qualify. […]
[…] The other came a couple days later in the form of 2015 big man Alex Owens. Unfortunately, Owens failed to receive a qualifying ACT score this summer and has enrolled at Tallahassee Community Colle…. Cooley is hoping the 2015 version of Elite Camp will lead to more commitments, especially from the […]