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NY guard Quinton Rose commits to Temple

08/06/2015, 9:00pm EDT

By Josh Verlin

Bishop Kearney (N.Y.) guard Quinton Rose has committed to Temple. (Photo: Josh Verlin)

Josh Verlin (@jmverlin)
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Just days after highly-sought-after Roman Catholic point guard Tony Carr chose Penn State over Temple and three other schools, the Owls got some good news of their own.

Head coach Fran Dunphy and staff reeled in their first commitment in the class of 2016 from four-star Bishop Kearney (N.Y.) guard Quinton Rose.

The 6-foot-5, 175-pound Rose chose Temple over offers from various other high-majors, including Miami (Fl.), Wake Forest, Southern Methodist and more.

The news was first reported by Scout.com’s Evan Daniels.

Bishop Kearney head coach Kevin Goode has seen numerous high-level players come through his program in recent years, including Syracuse forward Chinoso Obokoh and Fordham’s Antwoine Anderson, but he thinks that Rose has a chance to be one of the best to ever come out of the Rochester school.

“I think from just being with us since he was in 7th grade, he may end up having the most success,” said Goode, who’s entering his third year as head coach and 15th overall at the school. “I’m praying that he does.”

With great size for a high-major guard, Rose is equally capable of playing either on the ball or off it, and should be a good fit alongside current incoming freshmen Levan Alston, Jr. and Trey Lowe.

Both the 6-4 Alston and 6-6 Lowe are capable of making plays with the ball in their hands as well, and any of the three could see time at point guard next year.

Though not a true point guard like Carr, Rose showed this summer with the Nike-backed Albany City Rocks that he could run his team’s offense and makes good passes while attacking the basket, and shows some flashes of being an incredibly versatile scorer who makes easy shots as well as tough ones.

“A lot of people said that they’re recruiting as a 2-3 combo guard, but I still think that they’re getting a point guard out of it,” Goode said. “Yeah you can bring him as a ‘2’ or ‘3’ but I still think he can have the ball in his hands and make great decisions with the basketball passing it or scoring as well.”

During the summer, he averaged 7.9 ppg and 4.3 rpg, shooting 46 percent overall and 35.7 percent from 3-point range, chipping in 2.1 apg and 1.3 spg to boot.

But he showed during a visit to Temple's campus during a high school team camp that he can be a dominant scorer when he needs to, dropping 20-plus points in a few wins and getting to the rim at abandon off the bounce.

It was on that visit to campus that he might have finally been sold on the American Athletic Conference institution.

"I know when we came down for team camp, that was where he saw where he would be playing at and he was just overwhelmed with what he saw," Goode said. "He liked the city atmosphere, it was a nice easy drive from Rochester, before you knew it we were there. I think a lot of things helped with that, and I think Temple was one of the first schools recruiting him as well.”

With only seven players projected to be under scholarship next year, Dunphy has as many as five more scholarships to work with for 2016-17.