Malik Osborne: Recruiting Update (2017)
The first D1 offer is so welcome. For most players they sniff D1 attention entering their junior basketball season. For Malik Osborne (Rich East HS) that was almost two years ago. He is now a post-grad player for Don Bosco Prep.
Don Bosco Prep was founded in 2013 with the goal of “developing under the radar athletes that needed an additional season of growth, maturity and development has given us an identity as a program which produces college athletes.”
In their first three years they produced 26 college bball players, 14 of which played D1 somewhere.
“Only one of those student athletes arrived at Don Bosco Prep with an NCAA Division One offer,” said Founder David Maravilla.
The basketball program proudly promotes their players. In fact, the first whisper of Osborne’s first D1 offer hit Twitter through @DonBoscoHoops.
First Love
Congrats to DB’s 6’8 forward Malik Osborne on getting his first D1 offer from UMKC!
“I found out today from the head coach when he called me,” said Osborne. “We’ve been talking for some time now.”
Will Osborne go to UMKC?
Too early to tell. The symbolism of the first D1 offer is the important takeaway. It means Osborne is deemed good enough, by at least one staff, to play at the next level.