McMaster introduces basketball recruits

According to McMaster men’s basketball coach Amos Connolly, the first rule of recruiting is to never let the top players in your city slip away. This year, it seems like A.C. has succeeded.

The McMaster Marauders men’s basketball team just took three big steps toward improving upon their number five national ranking last year. And Cardinal Newman high school’s David McCulloch comes with some very prestigious ranking of his own. He is considered one of the top 30 graduating players in Canada.

David McCulloch: “Like, I can’t put a number to it, but across the country, a couple teams in the states. Yeah, I had a lot of schools talking to me.”

McCulloch and his Cardinals teammate, fellow point guard Marko Grahovac, have won three straight city championships, and now they’re both enrolled in Mac’s kinesiology program: “Kin was a top program at Mac and it looked like a great fit for me. (What were your grades like, if you don’t mind me asking?) High 80’s, low 90’s.”

But brawn and brains aren’t the only factors that impressed head coach Amos Connolly: “A cerebral component that let’s them compete right away and I think that comes from having great coaching. Great coaching at Cardinal Newman, great coaching at the rep level, and that’s sort of a trademark of Hamilton.”

Finally, Connor Gilmore might not be a steeltown native, but Connoly already considers him one of his most physically dominant players at 6 foot 7″, 225 pounds: “I want to come in and be a big minute guy, contribute as much as I can. I’m competing every day in practice, against the 4th and 5th year guys — not backing down from them, and I’m coming for their spot.”

A fearsome threesome indeed.