DETROIT -- The talent just keeps on rolling in for the Horizon League champion Detroit Titans as head coach
Ray McCallum announced that nationally recruited guard
Anton Wilson (Flint, MI/Flora Macdonald Academy (NC) has signed with UDM.
“He is a great talent and someone that is going to help us,” said Coach McCallum. “He can really shoot the ball. He has had some great games against some of the best teams in the country and I am happy that he wanted to come back home and play for us.”
Wilson chose Detroit with power schools such as Baylor, Iowa, N.C. State, Seton Hall and Virginia Tech showing interest in the 6-5, 190-pound shooting guard.
He is coming off a senior campaign that saw him average over 19 points per game in leading Flora Macdonald Academy to its first-ever state championship. The Cougars won the 1A North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association title and he was tabbed to the NCISAA 1A Boys All-State Team.
“He is a winner and I want to bring in guys who have won,” said McCallum. “Coach (Carlos) Briggs has been recruiting him for a while and his talent and skill set will definitely help us.”
One of his best games on the year came against Oak Hill Academy - the No. 1 ranked program in the country – as he scored 30 points and hit eight 3-pointers.
A three star recruit and Top 150 player by Rivals, Wilson began his high school career at Carman-Ainsworth High School in Flint, where he was regarded as one of the best shooters in the state. He averaged nearly 15 points a game as a junior earning honorable mention to the Flint Journal's All-Area team, helping the squad to a 16-6 record and a trip to the district finals. That was an improvement over the 9.0 ppg., he tallied as a sophomore.
Wilson joins a stellar and deep recruiting class for the defending Horizon League champions joining 6-4 guard
Gabriel Dos Santos (Sarasota, FL./Impact Basketball Academy), 6-8 forward
Jermaine Lippert (Munich, Germany/Sheridan College), 6-10 center Akinyemi Solanke (Lagos, Nigeria/Arkansas Baptist JC) and 6-11 big man
Ugochukwu Njoku (Lagios, Nigeria/Oakland Community College). University of Michigan transfer
Carlton Brundidge (Southfield, MI/Southfield) will also be new to UDM, but will sit out next season due to NCAA transfer rules.
The Titans are coming off a season in which they made the NCAA Tournament by winning the Horizon League Championship. Detroit finished the year 22-14 overall, its second 20-win season in the past three years, with the 22 victories tying for the sixth-most in school history.
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