Cowboy basketball gets verbal from Chicago prep star

The Wyoming Cowboy basketball program has dipped into the Chicago and Midwest area once again, as guard Cameron Harvey announced that he will join the Cowboys in 2012.

Yes, 2012.

Harvey, at 6-foot-2, 190 pounds, averaged 15 points, six assists and five rebounds a game last year as a freshman at St. Joseph High, gave a verbal committment over the weekend, according to several media sources. He and his family made an unofficial visit to Wyoming over the weekend. He plans to major in engineering at UW.

Harvey will be a freshman in the fall of 2012, and in the spring of that year UW could have to replace as many as seven players who are sophomores this season. Many recruiting services rank Harvey in the top five in terms of prep sophomore basketball players in Illinois.

Reports have Marquette, Baylor, Wisconsin, Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame and Xavier also having shown interest in Harvey.

If he plays for the Cowboys, Harvey will join fellow former Chicago prep stars Justin Williams, Jay Straight and Brandon Ewing, who were recruited by former head coach Steve McClain. Current Wyoming head coach Heath Schroyer and particularly assistant coach Anthony Stewart, recently brought in Ohio high school stars Desmar Jackson and Daylen Harrison.

For more on Harvey, check out stories from:

chicagohoops.com

Wyoming Tribune-Eagle

Casper Star-Tribune

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