With a college-ready body and athleticism, IMG Basketball Academy post-grad James Chute is finally full-go.  Battling a high-ankle sprain followed by complications from a spider bite, this 6′4 run-and-jump athlete is ready to make a splash during the late-signing period.  Always a student of the game, James’ comeback in late February and early March was [...]

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On-the-Road #4: Final Update from Erie, PA

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Posted: Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Champions once more!  One of our two high school team entrants in the NCSAA Tournament here in Erie, PA won the championship of the invitational bracket earlier today.  It was a well-played game, but IMG led wire-to-wire, taking as much as a 12 point lead 4 separate times.  We were able to hold on for [...]

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On-the-Road: Update #3 from Erie, PA

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Posted: Friday, March 13th, 2009

This has been a valuable trip for all of our players.  The Post-Graduate teams played well in their opening day games, but today really kicked it up a notch and both teams recorded Ws over some pretty talented competition.  In fact, they both played themselves into a position in the tournament that it looks like [...]

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On-the-Road: Update #2 from Erie, PA

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Posted: Friday, March 13th, 2009

Well, one day in the books.  Each of our teams (we have four teams in this event) were competitive in yesterday’s action, with a number of our seniors and post-graduates getting great looks from the over two dozen college basketball coaches in attendance.  Our spotlight game-of-the-day was the afternoon post-graduate game, where our boys battled [...]

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On the Road: Update #1 from Erie, PA

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Posted: Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Jeremee Davis, one of our current Post-Graduates at the IMG Basketball Academy, had never seen snow before.  Chalk up another life experience acquired through  the full-time program here at the Academy.  The Post-Graduate teams and our High School boys’ teams are all in Erie, Pennsylvania for the NCSAA Tournament this weekend, and there were enough [...]

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March Madness: Academy-style

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Posted: Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

10 games over the next 19 days. That is what faces our boys’ National and Developmental high school teams.  From now until March 15th, both teams will play in multiple games and tournaments as a real point of transition from the standard high school season and into our spring training period.
Both the National and Developmental teams [...]

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