Newman104 wrote:
According to 247, he'd [Rubin] be the highest-rated recruit the school has ever signed. That record is currently held by Marqiuse Kennedy who was 252nd in his class, and he had an offer from Florida State on the table.
This is going WAY back before the internet, but I know Loyola has had higher rated recruits. I remember distinctly that Street and Smith's Annual College Basketball Preview Magazine had Gerald Hayward as a Top 100 recruit. Keith Gailes was also highly rated by Street and Smith or Sporting News coming out of high school in Indiana, probably top 150 or so.
Don't know this for a fact but I'm pretty sure LaRue Martin was highly rated coming out of DeLasalle as well. (Don't know if they even had numerical rankings back in his day though.) Alfredrick Hughes and Tim Bankston were also hyped recruits, but I don't know where they ranked.
If you count transfers, I know Cully Payne and Justin Cerasoli were Rivals Top 100 coming out of high school. For some odd reason I remember that Cerasoli ranked a few spots above Joachim Noah in the 2004 Top 100.
Damezi Anderson was 127th on 247.