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[Batt Boy]

He'll look good in Duke Blue.

dookie doesn't look good on anyone

 

[CRHeel94]

Ed was born in LA and played ball in Brooklyn. I don't think he counts as an international player in any meaningful sense.

The only two international players on that team, as we use the word today, were Evtimov and Okulaja. I don't remember if Vasco was eligible that year or if that was the year the NCAA fucked him and us, but he obviously counts as a recruit.

You are right about Dean getting international players who played HS here. Of course, that's in part because Dean liked big men and big men are always going to be more of an international mix because of the scarcity of height.

I'd also add that we were going after Tony Parker hard one of those years, but he decided on the NBA instead.

Sort of. His parents were Panamanian, but he grew up in the States, and his basketball formation was strictly stateside. He actually played for the Panamanian National team in the 2006 World Cup. But I wouldn't consider him an international recruit as it pertains to his time at Carolina.

Zwikker and Mahktar were on the 97 team that lost to Arizona, which I'd count in the international tally.
Evtimov was on the 97 and 99 teams, taking that one year to do military service...and yeah, got screwed by the NCAA.
Blue White sensation Orlando Meléndez is from Puerto Rico, played his senior year in HS in North Carolina was recruited.

 

[Icky Mettle]

Ed was born in LA and played ball in Brooklyn. I don't think he counts as an international player in any meaningful sense.

The only two international players on that team, as we use the word today, were Evtimov and Okulaja. I don't remember if Vasco was eligible that year or if that was the year the NCAA fucked him and us, but he obviously counts as a recruit.

You are right about Dean getting international players who played HS here. Of course, that's in part because Dean liked big men and big men are always going to be more of an international mix because of the scarcity of height.

I'd also add that we were going after Tony Parker hard one of those years, but he decided on the NBA instead.

Zwikker, N’Diaye, Okulaja, and Evtimov were the four international players on that team (as in players who were from and citizens of countries other than the U.S.). All but Okulaja played high school ball on American soil (though he did attend and play for the John F. Kennedy School in Berlin, which was established as a school for children of Americans who worked for the U.S. embassy). I didn’t include Cota in that group but threw is name out there since he had dual Panamanian citizenship (I think).

Evtimov was eligible and did play in 1997. He missed 1998 due to military duty, and then his eligibility came into question for the 1998-99 season.

It remember the recruitment of Tony Parker (and Dirk Nowitztki as well). I remember thinking there was no way that a PG from France of all places would be any good. LOL!