Recruiting Report: Luke Anderson (2019)
Lakeland, Florida nationally ranked 2019 Luke Anderson continues to draw a crowd each game he plays with Team Knight Gold. Anderson added another scholarship offer as teams fight to win his services for the future.
Luke Anderson is a 6-foot-8, 215 pound power forward from Lakeland, Florida ranked in the top 175 in the country. Anderson is shifty forward that kicked off his winter averaging 24 points, 11 rebounds, and four assists a game last December. College coaches really began to swarm after a 32 point, 18 rebound, 8 block game on a big high school stage.
Shortly after those big games Iowa State and Xavier staffs traveled to Florida around Christmas time, watched Anderson be named the MVP of a holiday event after putting up a 32 point, 13 rebound, and 10 block game, and soon after Anderson took an unofficial visit to Xavier. Since that point the Xavier staff has changed buy Anderson continued to play well and draw interest.
Anderson is described as a stretch four who can of course really shoot the basketball, but is also clever with a dribble in getting to space and comfortable with his back the bucket. He’s been trusted to handle the ball from time to time and this spring Anderson’s ability to slice rotating defenses was another part of his game schools liked. After finishing his junior year with a 24 point, 12 rebound a game average Anderson earned offers from Georgia (visited there unofficially in early June) and Georgia Tech.
Yesterday Minnesota Head Coach Richard Pitino saw Anderson play with Team Knight at the Adidas Summer Championships and the way that Anderson built a 13.5 point/7 rebound per game average (team stats, the Adidas rebounding stats are way off) impressed Coach Pitino so a Friday night offer was extended.
“I am excited about Minnesota’s offer, it’s a new look for me and I’m glad to receive another offer from a school that likes my game,” Anderson said this morning. “I like Coach Kyle Lindstead and Coach Pitino They are good with words and seem like good people.”
Other schools were in the crowd watching consistently as well. Tom Crean of Georgia, Steve Prohm of Iowa State, and Brian Gregory of USF were among the schools joining Pitino and his staff in watching Friday.
“(I have) no visits set yet, but I’d say Georgia, Iowa State, USF, Florida Gulf Coast, Dayton, Old Dominion, and now Minnesota are the people recruiting me pretty hard,” Luke explained.
Team Knight Gold is 3-1 on the year and is playing Basketball University right now out in Los Angeles.
“We’re playing pretty good, we play in a hour so I hope we win this one also,” Luke said. “And I’ve been really solid this weekend. I just gotta shoot the three better.”
Anderson and his team will be in Orlando next week for the final open period weekend.