Keenan Ellis

06/20/06: Listed as the 124th best player in 2007 in the nation. - www.HoopScoopOnline.com

03/24/06: Mick Cronin is the new head coach at Cincinnati. Moved to inactive.

02/15/06: "In the third season for Mayo and Walker, North College Hill upgraded the schedule for a team with a strong supporting cast that included 6-foot-11 junior Keenan Ellis until he left this week for undisclosed reasons." - Assoc Press

12/20/05: North College Hill wins big over St Xavier HS 87-49. Keenan Ellis does not play in the game. - Mike Ryan

09/17/05: Listed as the 72nd best player in his class. - HoopScoop

08/17/05: "Indiana University's incoming freshman basketball players will be in action Monday at Milan High School. Ben Allen, Joey Shaw and Earl Calloway will be playing in the Indiana University Recruit Game presented by Indiana Elite AAU. The game will start at 7pm. Along with the three Hoosiers, high school juniors O.J. Mayo, Keenan Ellis and Bill Walker, all from Cincinnati's North College Hill, will also be playing." - www.MadisonCourier.com

08/17/05: Listed as the 50th player in his class. - www.RivalsHoops.com

08/12/05: Listed as the 43rd best player in his class. - www.ScoutHoops.com

07/23/05: "Keenan Ellis was 0-2 in six minutes of (playing) time and
struggled defending Oden and Aaron Pogue inside . . . " - www.Peegs.com (Indiana) [but then again, everyone struggles guarding Oden and Pogue]

07/19/05: "Clemson, Georgetown, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Louisville, Indiana, Xavier, Cincinnati, Michigan, Purdue, Tennessee. . . that's just off the top of my head..." - www.PrepSpotlight.com

07/15/05: "Mayo and Walker -- who grew up in Huntington, W.Va. -- and Ellis list Cincinnati, Louisville and West Virginia as solid possibilities. But nobody -- including Pitt or Big Ten schools Penn State, Ohio State or Indiana -- has been ruled out. "Our families are getting ready to put together a list, and then we'll put it out," Mayo said. "I know I want to go to school, but I don't know about four years." The three players, considered NBA-caliber, were watched by West Virginia's John Beilein, Cincinnati's Bob Huggins, Indiana's Mike Davis, Pitt assistants and the crowds of more than 1,000 that packed every inch of floor space in WVU's Student Recreation Center." - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

07/09/05: "Keenan Ellis is originally from Kentucky and would like to play at either Kentucky or Indiana. The other two schools he mentioned are Louisville and Florida A&M." - www.ScoutHoops.com

07/08/05: "The North College Hill trio of Mayo, Walker and Keenen Ellis plans on attending college together -- but local recruiting power Ohio State appears to be fading off of their list after it landed its mammoth Class of '06." - CNN SI

07/04/05: Listed as the 11th best player in his class. - www.ScoutHoops.com

06/26/05: Named 22nd best overall player at the NBA Players Assoc Top 100 Camp. - HoopScoop

06/26/05: Listed as the 6th best Center at the NBA Players Top 100 Camp. - www.PrepSpotlight.com

06/23/05: "Ellis also said that he, along with AAU teammates O.J. Mayo and Bill Walker, often discuss attending the same college." - www.ScoutHoops.com

06/23/05: "The long and lanky shot-blocker is still painfully thin and the five-star prospect from the class of 2007 admits he should have spent some more time with the squat machine and the bench press." - www.RivalsHoops.com

05/23/05: "Ellis is being recruited by teams all over the country, and said over the weekend that Steve Alford and the Iowa Hawkeyes are recruiting him the hardest." - www.ScoutHoops.com

05/06/05: "IU heavily (recruiting me) and Louisville a little bit. I like Louisville, but IU is the real heavy school. I've heard from Michigan a little bit. Other schools aren't really on me yet." - www.ScoutHoops.com