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N-G's Green gets two Big 10 offers off first live weekend

04/15/2015, 9:00pm EDT

By Aron Minkoff

Aron Minkoff (@AronMinkoff)
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The stock continues to rise for one of the top 2017 guards in Philadelphia, Quade Green.

This past weekend, Green picked up two more Big 10 offers from Penn State and Michigan State at an Under Armour Association U17 tournament in New Orleans which his WE R1 team went 3-1.

“Its good, they see me working hard and they just offered me,” Green said. “I don’t expect anything though. I thought I was going to get a couple of looks this weekend, not offers.”

Green and his backcourt partner Trevon Duval form a deadly tandem for the Delaware-based AAU program. Duval is already considered a top-20 recruit in the nation in the class of 2017, and has raked in many offers from high-level Division I programs, such as Villanova and Syracuse.

“When you have two talented guards it takes a lot of pressure off the one guard. No one can stop us,” Green said. “I can’t compare him though, I am trying to get to where he is right now, top 10 in the country.”

As a sophomore, Green played an integral role in helping coach Carl Arrigale and Neumann-Goretti win another Pennsylvania Class AAA state championship.

Arrigale has seen his fair share of talented point guards, such as current Miami freshman Ja’Quan Newton and former Syracuse star Scoop Jardine, plus La Salle's Tyreek Duren and VIllanova's Tony Chennault, come through his program.

“He is right there with them all,” Arrigale said. “With a chance to be as good or better than them. He has got one thing, he is a terrific shooter. When a lot of kids don't work on their shooting nowadays, they are working on ballhandling or driving, hes always in the gym and is really a good shooter. The sky's the limit for him if his attitude stays the same.”

The scary thing about Green is that he is putting up numbers and contributing in ways that sophomores rarely do. Heading into the state title game, Green was nursing a sore hamstring to the point where he could not practice.

He still recorded 14 points while playing the entire 32 minutes of the game as N-G beat Catholic League foe Archbishop Carroll, 69-67.

“He was hurt pretty bad, the hamstring, and was nowhere near himself,” Arrigale said. “I almost had to beg him to take a little time off after the season. It just wasn’t smart to keep playing, he wasn’t ready. This is probably the first time, this past weekend, that he was even close to being 100 percent. That’s the type of kid he is though, he wanted to be in the gym the next day after the state title game.”

It is easy to see the hard work is paying off for Green. In addition to the two offers that he picked up this past weekend, he also has offers from Big 5 schools such as St. Joseph’s and Temple as well as other high-majors in Maryland and Providence.

“He is a special talent and the sky’s the limit for what he can be,” Arrigale said. “For the kind of year he had as a sophomore, shooting 58 percent from the field and over 50 percent from 3, those numbers are pretty eye-popping, I expect him to continue to get better.”