JEROME SEAGEARS - RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

JEROME SEAGEARS 

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

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SILVER SPRING MD.

BY - TYLER BARTO

For one night, Piscataway felt more like home to Jerome Seagears than his native Silver Spring, Md. Because when the Rutgers basketball team took on visiting Notre Dame on Monday, a pair of former AAU teammates stood across from him. 

Irish junior point guard Eric Atkins and redshirt freshman guard Jerian Grant, both Maryland natives, took the Louis Brown Athletic Center floor opposite Seagears for the first time.

“When [Grant] was on the line, I told him, ‘Miss these like you did in practice all the time back in 14-and-under [leagues],’” Seagears said.Seagears teamed up with Grant on Team Takeover, a Maryland-based AAU program, when the two were young teenagers. The Scarlet Knights’ starting point guard moved on years later to D.C. Assault, based out of Washington, D.C., sharing backcourt duties with Atkins in the process.

Both live a half-hour drive from Seagears. 

ERIC ATKINS

NOTRE DAME

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COLUMBIA MD.