An update from Keenan McMiller at Merritt College

Merritt College and Coach Keenan McMiller just finished a very solid 19-11, 8-5 basketball season and a few of the Thunderbird players already have a next destination.

* 6-foot-3 sophomore Saajid (Grant High) Polite is headed to Sacramento State to play for Coach Brian Katz

McMiller: "Saajid is on time to graduate [from Merritt] and he will redshirt his first year and begin playing in 2012-2013."

*6-foot-7  sophomore William Tolefree is headed to Texas A&M Prairie View

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* 6-foot-7 sophomore Richard Walker is also headed to Texas A&M Prairie View  

Tolefree and Walker prepped in the Atlanta area.

McMiller: "William will graduate this summer and Richard will graduate on time. A coaching friend of a friend came in and watched them a few times and then the head coach and assistant coach at Texas A & M Prairie View made a trip here."

TAMPV is led by Coach Byron Rimm II and is a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).

McMiller also will have 6-foot-3 sophomore Roman (Rodriguez High) Robinson and  6-foot-5 sophomore Joshua (Berkeley High) Hatcher moving on but their next residences are quite set as yet. We'll post that information as soon as it is settled.

He also has what looks like another impressive set of Bay Area newcomers heading to Merritt but that's for another article/another time.