OVERLAND PARK — Jeremiah Robinson-Earl shed some tears in the final huddle with his AAU squad KC Run GMC.
His team had just been ousted in the U17 championship game of the Jayhawk Finale in Overland Park. Robinson-Earl went for 19 points and 14 rebounds, while Topeka-product Zach Harvey added 28 points, but it wasn’t enough against an OSA Crusaders squad that included Creighton-commit Shereef Mitchell and 3-star small forward Akol Arop, who recently picked up an offer from Nebraska.
Fresh off the 86-74 defeat, Robinson-Earl tried to put it all into words.
“It means the most because those are my brothers out there,” Robinson-Earl told Phog.net “To be done playing with them and going on to something new, it’s awesome, but also, like, heartbreaking because I’ve been playing with them since I was a little kid. Being done with them, it kind of hurts.”
Now Robinson-Earl knows it’s time for his next step.
In a couple of weeks he’ll be heading down to IMG Academy in Florida. Before then, he’ll be back at Steph Curry’s camp, which he attended last season.
So for whatever time he does have left in the Kansas City-area, Robinson-Earl said he plans on spending much of it with his mother, who has been helping him through his recruitment.
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“Yeah, I’ve been talking to my mom. It’s like going to college a year early, it’s better to do it now than later,” Robinson-Earl said. “But it’s going to be a great experience down there. And it will make us stronger, me and my mom. You know, it’s going to be hard on us.”
As for his finale in the Kansas City-area, Robinson-Earl and the two teams had no shortage of suitors in attendance. In addition to KU coaches Bill Self and Norm Roberts, plenty of others showed up throughout the weekend.
Schools with assistants in attendance included K-State, UCLA, Creighton, Villanova, Clemson, North Carolina (multiple assistants), Oklahoma and Nebraska. And there were plenty of head coaches there, too, with North Carolina’s Roy Williams, OU’s Lon Kruger, Notre Dame’s Mike Brey, LSU’s Will Wade, Wake Forest’s Danny Manning and more packing the gym.
“It means a lot because they recognize something that I’m able to do,” Robinson-Earl said specifically of Self and Williams being in attendance. “It just means a lot that they come out and watch me play in Kansas. Just go out there and ball.”
As for his own performances, the loss left Robinson-Earl with a bittersweet feeling, though he did his part to impress a number of coaches and fans after a slow start to the weekend. (Look for our VIP roundup of some of the top performances from the weekend coming Monday morning.)
“I think I was able to get it going the next couple days after the first day,” Robinson-Earl said. ” I feel like I played pretty well. We played pretty well as a team even though the outcome wasn’t what we wanted. But I feel like we played well for our last tournament.”