ESPN.com has released its rankings of top 100 basketball recruits for the 2017 class, and UNLV has made offers to several of those players.
Three locals are among those players:Charles O’Bannon Jr. at No. 23, Troy Brown Jr. at No. 28 and Oshae Brissett at No. 81.
O’Bannon, a 6-foot-5-inch guard from Bishop Gorman High School, is a five-star recruit, according to ESPN. He also is listed as the nation’s sixth-best shooting guard, and in addition to UNLV has received scholarship offers from Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oregon, UCLA, Southern California and Utah among others.
Brown, a 6-6 forward from Centennial High, received four stars and is listed by ESPN as the fifth-best small forward.