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Per Zach Braziller:

"Can confirm Isaiah Whitehead will visit Seton Hall in coming weeks. Not expected to be official."

https://twitter.com/NYPost_Brazille/status/373497416156475392

This tweet from a "Sota" beat writer highlights how major a development this is/could be (fingers/toes crossed):

"Interesting Development: Gophers recruit Isaiah Whitehead (@Isaiah_W15) to visit Seton Hall. Didn't know they were on his radar. #Gophers"

https://twitter.com/MNfanwillie/status/373524969159790592

Nice couple of weeks for WIllard, Sha & The Hall...

"Isaiah Whitehead will take an unofficial visit to Seton Hall on Saturday"

http://zagsblog.com/recruiting/whitehead-to-visit-seton-hall/

My dude Chris McManus over at SouthOrangeJuice.com tweeted this link from 247Sports:

http://247sports.com/Player/Isaiah-Whitehead-18784/PlayerInstitutionPredictions

They took a poll of 24 cbb recruiting beat writers to predict Whiteheads college choice. Here are the results:

Minnesota 38%
Seton Hall 29%
Indiana 21%
Syracuse 12%

But upon further inspection of the data I noticed that votes were entered between July through now. If you just looked at the entries from this month (18 total) you get:

Minnesota 39%
Seton Hall 39%
Indiana 17%
Syracuse 5%

Good ole mo' guarantees nothing, but never hurts. Come on Willard!

Wow, and if you look even closer, in the last 24 hours, Whitehead-to-Seton-Hall has gotten 6 votes, while there have been no votes for Minnesota... and 3 of those 6 Seton Hall votes are from Minnesota guys...!

I'm not a big fan of that site, but it definitely shows some awesome trends for the Hall...!

billyjack wrote:Wow, and if you look even closer, in the last 24 hours, Whitehead-to-Seton-Hall has gotten 6 votes, while there have been no votes for Minnesota... and 3 of those 6 Seton Hall votes are from Minnesota guys...!

I'm not a big fan of that site, but it definitely shows some awesome trends for the Hall...!

I was like- are these dude putting some kinda reverse psychology karma is the air with those SHU picks....but I found this quote in the NY Post about Whitehead's thinking on SHU:

"He is intrigued by the possibility of leading the Hall back to its glory days, as the face of the program, a source said."

Oh yeah, today Whitehead has his unofficial visit to SHU.

Whitehead had his unofficial visit at SHU on Saturday. FWIW here's some news about the visit from Zags:

On Saturday, Brooklyn Lincoln guard Isaiah Whitehead – one of the top shooting guards in the Class of 2014 — visited Seton Hall with Lincoln coach Tiny Morton. “It was great,” Morton told SNY.tv....[I] liked everything about it,” the 6-foot-4 Whitehead told SNY.tv. “It’s a great school. I don’t see why people don’t go there.”...Having now visited Indiana and Seton Hall unofficially, Whitehead will now visit St. John’s Tuesday or Wednesday".

http://zagsblog.com/recruiting/whitehea ... ohns-next/

For the record I do like that the coach said it was great given great relationship with coaches has lasting value over time as opposed to 1 particular player. Besides players always say trips went great, not coaches though....GO GET EM WILLARD!

http://zagsblog.com/recruiting/whitehead-enjoyed-seton-hall-st-johns-next/

“[I] liked everything about it,” the 6-foot-4 Whitehead told SNY.tv. “It’s a great school. I don’t see why people don’t go there.”

Is this guy taking visits to Minnesota and/or IU?

Next visit is SJU sometime this week. Another unofficial. Not sure of his plans after that.

ElDonBDon wrote:Is this guy taking visits to Minnesota and/or IU?

I believe he took an unofficial visit to Indy already. As for Minny, in his own words:

"Minnesota and Pittsburgh would also both like to get Whitehead on a visit, but he said he’s not certain where he will go after St. John’s. “I don’t know yet,” he said."

http://zagsblog.com/recruiting/whitehead-enjoyed-seton-hall-st-johns-next/