Ugbaja getting national notice

From ESPN:

Team Pan-Africa standouts

The Pan-Africa team was talented, extremely competitive and played with a high motor in every contest. Four Pan-Africa players who play high school ball in the United States stood out in particular.

Rising senior point guard Jiday Noble Ugbaja (Daly City, Calif./Archbishop Riordan) was the breakout star of the Global Challenge. Everyone knows the big names of summer basketball, but what is special is when a prospect is virtually unknown and has no scholarship offers but plays his way into impressing coaches. Coming into the Global Challenge, Ugbaja had only interest from a few West Coast schools, but his play over the weekend will earn him a spot somewhere. He received his first offer from the Citadel, while George Washington and Tulane have reached out. "He is going to be a player because within a short period of time he absorbed a lot and without resistance,” said Herman Harried, the head coach at Lake Clifton High School in Baltimore who coached Ugbaja at the Global Challenge. “He was always trying to do what I asked as his attitude is to get better."