[IlladelphParticipant]

 Over the last couple of years we have seen several high school basketball players "reclassify" from one graduating class year to another.  Typically this involves reclassifying so that a player can go do their college year and hit the NBA one year ahead of plan.

This makes sense for an elite few.  First, you have to be an elite player who will be NBA draft material.  Second, you have to be old enough so that you will be 19 during the calendar year of the draft.  So, if you reclassify, and say go to Kentucky, and spend a year there but are only going to turn 18 in the calendar year of the draft, you will need to play another season for big blue in order to be eligible for the draft.

What do you all think about reclassifying?  I can see how it works for the Andrew Wiggins of the world, and other elite players, but it seems like the trend is to do this if you suddenly become a highly-ranked prospect.  Articles about players now routinely have a comment about whether the player will reclassify.  "So and so is considering reclassifying to the class of 2015…"

[Mr. HookShotParticipant]

Maybe I don’t understand the American education system, but shouldn’t you finish high school before being allowed to go to university? Or how does it work?

[Mr. HookShotParticipant]

Maybe I don’t understand the American education system, but shouldn’t you finish high school before being allowed to go to university? Or how does it work?

[wonzi_bellsParticipant]

 It starts much earlier than their junior years in high school. The players who are reclassifying are usually people who were held back in middle school, typically the eighth grade, so that they could be bigger and stronger than their peers while buying them extra time to standout for scholarship offers in the future. It’s merely a sports issue. 

If they’re already considered elite and polished enough by their junior year, they just reclassify back to the class that they were originally in to become seniors.

Watch this piece espn.go.com/video/clip

Andrew Wiggins was in the eighth grade twice.

Andre Drummond repeated his sophomore year.

Nerlens Noel repeated his sophomore year too.

Karl Towns, Daraki Johnson, Wayne Selden, Isaiah Briscoe, Noah Vonleh, Josh Jackson, and countless others

I want to probably say 3-5 players in every Top 25 High School Basketball Recruiting lists for the last five-to-eight years are guys who’ve been held back.

Thon Maker is a bit different though since he was international player from Australia and when he arrived stateside, they placed him in a class a year younger than he was supposed to be in. I think they did the same for Ben Simmons too.

[wonzi_bellsParticipant]

 It starts much earlier than their junior years in high school. The players who are reclassifying are usually people who were held back in middle school, typically the eighth grade, so that they could be bigger and stronger than their peers while buying them extra time to standout for scholarship offers in the future. It’s merely a sports issue. 

If they’re already considered elite and polished enough by their junior year, they just reclassify back to the class that they were originally in to become seniors.

Watch this piece espn.go.com/video/clip

Andrew Wiggins was in the eighth grade twice.

Andre Drummond repeated his sophomore year.

Nerlens Noel repeated his sophomore year too.

Karl Towns, Daraki Johnson, Wayne Selden, Isaiah Briscoe, Noah Vonleh, Josh Jackson, and countless others

I want to probably say 3-5 players in every Top 25 High School Basketball Recruiting lists for the last five-to-eight years are guys who’ve been held back.

Thon Maker is a bit different though since he was international player from Australia and when he arrived stateside, they placed him in a class a year younger than he was supposed to be in. I think they did the same for Ben Simmons too.

[PrecociousNeophyteParticipant]

 nice post dude. A lot of good info right there

[PrecociousNeophyteParticipant]

 nice post dude. A lot of good info right there

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