UConn head coach Kevin Ollie offers instruction during a loss to Temple. One of the top recruits in Ollie’s tenure, Zach Brown, will transfer to a high school in Connecticut. (Ashley Maher/The Daily Campus).
UConn men’s basketball Class of 2017 commit Zach Brown will transfer to Putnam Science Academy in Putnam, Connecticut, according to PSA head coach Tom Espinosa and a tweet from ESPN’s Adam Finkelstein. Brown committed to the Huskies.
ESPN 60 center & recent UConn pledge Zach Brown will transfer to Putnam Science Academy in CT per @PSAhoops head coach Tom Espinosa.
— Adam Finkelstein (@AdamFinkelstein) January 26, 2016
Brown will join UConn commit and Class of 2016 power forward Mamadou Diarra as well as Hamidou Diallo, one of the Huskies’ top recruiting targets in the Class of 2017.
2017 UConn pledge Zach Brown will have the option to reclassify to 2016, per Michael Lipman.
“Option this summer if he is ready. Not now.”
— Evan Daniels (@EvanDaniels) January 26, 2016
Brown’s legal guardian Michael Lipman also said that Brown will have the option to reclassify to 2016 in the summer and be eligible to join UConn next season, but only if he feels ready for it.
Dan Madigan is the associate sports editor for The Daily Campus. He can be reached via email at daniel.madigan@uconn.edu. He tweets @DMad1433.