Indiana makes a push for 2014 guard Phil Booth - ALL-MET ELITE

Indiana makes a push for

2014 guard

Phil Booth 

 ALL-MET ELITE

The hiring of assistant coach Kenny Johnson has further ramped up Indiana’s aggressive recruiting efforts in the D.C., Baltimore and Virginia area, one of the current hotbeds for high major programs. One of the latest names to emerge on the Hoosier radar is Phil Booth, a class of 2014 guard who plays at Mount St. Joseph’s in Baltimore and with Team Takeover, the AAU program formerly headed up by Johnson. Booth helped lead Mount St. Joseph’s to the Baltimore Catholic League (BCL) Championship as a sophomore and was named to the BCL All-Conference first team and second team All-Metro by The Baltimore Sun. Indiana is among the early offers for Booth, who hasn’t been on campus, but hopes to make a visit to Bloomington either later this month or in August. Booth’s recent schedule included a trip to the Richmond high school team camp and the Nike Elite 100 in St. Louis. He’ll attend the Villanova team camp this weekend. Indiana’s success recruiting the area known as the DMV under Crean includes landing current IU guard Maurice Creek and Victor Oladipo, who are both Team Takeover alums. Stanford Robinson, who committed to the Hoosiers in early May, is also in the Takeover program and is someone Booth is very familiar with.