2016 Big Man Sedee Keita to Visit Providence for Late Night Madness

Providence landed their point guard in the class of 2016 that they had been searching for when Maliek White pledged to Ed Cooley and the Friars during his official visit over the weekend. Next on the agenda for Cooley and his staff is to address the needs in the frontcourt. Enter Sedee Keita. While Wenyen Gabriel is still a priority for Providence it’s Keita who is the only true big man with the size to be a real rim protector. Kevin Marfo took an official visit last weekend with White and would certainly bolster the Friar frontcourt in 2016-17 but he’s a few inches shorter than Keita and is seen as more of a pure power forward.

Keita is fresh off an official visit to South Carolina — a trip he reportedly enjoyed. His next stop will be to Temple on October 9th. The other official visit he has scheduled right now is to Providence on October 16th. That’s the weekend the Providence program is hosting their annual Late Night Madness festivities at Alumni Hall. Keita also got a visit from Providence coaches at Putnam Science Academy on Monday afternoon. The official visit dates and the school visit were first reported by Phil Kornblut. I confirmed both with a source familiar with the recruitment.

I expect Keita to be the highest profile recruit in attendance at Late Night Madness but there should be a solid showing of local prep players from the classes of 2017, 2018 and even 2019. Ludacris will perform following the basketball activities and the night is an excellent recruiting tool for the  Friar program. This will be the first recruit to attend the Late Night Madness festivities as an uncommitted senior since Donovan Mitchell and Jared Reuter took in the festivities back in 2013 when Brandon Austin won the dunk contest.

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  2. […] White in the class of 2016. Keita is scheduled to visit Providence the weekend of October 16th and will be in attendance for the Late Night Madness festivities on October 17th. The Friars are also still in the mix with wing Jalen Johnson who visited Tennessee […]

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