'11 CA SF Juan Anderson (Signed to Marquette)

[Buffnik]

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Castro Valley H.S. (Castro Valley, CA)

AAU: Oakland Rebels

Ht: 6-foot-6
Wt: 200 lbs

Rivals rating: 4*; #19 SF (#69 overall)
Scout rating: NR SF
ESPN rating: 3*-92 grade; #40 SF

Reported Offers: Colorado, Arizona State, California, Creighton, Marquette, Murray State, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Portland, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, SMU, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, Utah State, Western Kentucky

[Buffnik]

Ratings seem low and incomplete by the scouting services. It's taking them time to catch up, because Anderson has had a huge summer. He's AAU teammates with PG TJ Taylor, who the Buffs have also taken a look at.

I was pretty impressed by his athleticism and skill on his highlight video:

[Buffnik]

Anderson made his first round of cuts. CU made the list of 10 schools he's still interested in (and named us 2nd after ASU, if that means anything).

http://colorado.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1118433

Anderson wants to take all five of his official visits before making a commitment. He plans to decide during the early signing period, which begins on Nov. 10 and ends on Nov. 17.

"Colorado is one of the schools that I am considering for a visit but I have to sit down with my coach again to see where everything is at with them," Anderson said. "I know their head coach (Tad Boyle is a very good coach. They have a great school for academics. And they are going to join the Pac-10, which is of course appealing to someone that is on the west coast like me.

[Buffnik]

Anderson decided he wanted a winning tradition and CU did not make his final 4: http://colorado.scout.com/2/994827.html

Gonna be Marquette, Oregon, Arizona State or Cal. (Not sure that any of those other than Marquette have a great basketball "winning tradition", but whatever.)

[Buffnik]

Marquette