Beyond excited to announce that I am going to be joining the Villanova Basketball family! Thanks for everyone's support #NovaNation
— Dylan Painter (@dpaint4234) September 16, 2015
Congratulations to Painter, who told COBL that Villanova was his dream school:
“I guess it’s always been kind of my dream school, and over the last couple months, me and Coach Wright have had a great bond,” Painter told CoBL exclusively on Tuesday night. “He’s always been honest to me, just about their plan for me; they laid out a really good plan for me.”
Penn State has two open scholarships for this recruiting class. Delgreco Wilson (phillyhoops4ever), who has his ear to the ground in Philadelphia, wrote on a St. Joseph’s board last night that the word on the street was Painter to ‘Nova, consensus top-100 Lamar Stevens to Penn State. He was right about Painter….
The biggest Penn State recruiting news following the summer evaluation periods remains that consensus top-50 Mario Kegler has an official visit scheduled to Penn State September 26.
Stevens and Kegler would be a monster haul, but the chalk probably calls for a low-post defender in the mix.