{"id":93303,"date":"2014-11-12T08:57:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T13:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/?p=93303"},"modified":"2014-11-12T08:57:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T13:57:22","slug":"black-shoe-diaries-college-basketball-national-signing-day-penn-state-to-sign-historic-recruiting-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/black-shoe-diaries-college-basketball-national-signing-day-penn-state-to-sign-historic-recruiting-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Shoe Diaries: College Basketball National Signing Day: Penn State to Sign Historic Recruiting Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackshoediaries.com\/2014\/11\/12\/7192105\/college-basketball-national-signing-day-penn-state-josh-reaves-mike-watkins-zemgulis-pat-chambers\"><img src='http:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/476119831.0_standard_730.0.jpg' alt='' width=\"80%\" \/><\/a><br \/>Three good ones to sign this week.<\/p>\n<p>Black Shoe Diaries:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, here we are. It&#8217;s November 12, 2014, National Signing Day, and Mike Watkins will officially be a Penn State Nittany Lion, either today or one day over the next week. He&#8217;s also now a\u00a0composite four-star recruit, as is his fellow class of 2015 signee\u00a0Josh Reaves. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Add in Deividas &quot;Davis&quot; Zemgulis, another DMV kid via Lithuania who will be, at worst, a serviceable role player and, at best, the lights-out shooter Penn State basketball has craved since Danny Morrissey and Mike Walker left. Combined, you have the best recruiting class in program history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/www.blackshoediaries.com\/2014\/11\/12\/7192105\/college-basketball-national-signing-day-penn-state-josh-reaves-mike-watkins-zemgulis-pat-chambers'>College Basketball National Signing Day: Penn State to Sign Historic Recruiting Class &#8211; Black Shoe Diaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three good ones to sign this week. Black Shoe Diaries: Well, here we are. It&#8217;s November 12, 2014, National Signing Day, and Mike Watkins will officially be a Penn State Nittany Lion, either today or one day over the next week. He&#8217;s also now a\u00a0composite four-star recruit, as is his fellow class of 2015 signee\u00a0Josh &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/black-shoe-diaries-college-basketball-national-signing-day-penn-state-to-sign-historic-recruiting-class\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Shoe Diaries: College Basketball National Signing Day: Penn State to Sign Historic Recruiting Class&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Black Shoe Diaries: College Basketball National Signing Day: Penn State to Sign Historic Recruiting Class - PennStateHoops.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/black-shoe-diaries-college-basketball-national-signing-day-penn-state-to-sign-historic-recruiting-class\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black Shoe Diaries: College Basketball National Signing Day: Penn State to Sign Historic Recruiting Class - PennStateHoops.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Three good ones to sign this week. 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