By SAM LANCE
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — All Quentin Coleman does is win.
Coleman, the 6-foot-3 guard out of The Principia School in St. Louis, dropped 30 points to help his squad win a Missouri Class 3A state title just four months ago in March. Fast forward to now, and Coleman has another championship, this time winning Peach Jam with Bradley Beal Elite. The combo guard had a major hand in the title.
In the championship game, Coleman was the best player on the court in the first half, walking into the break with 12 points, five rebounds and three assists. He finished with 14-7-5, and that wasn’t his only productive game in Augusta. The three-star posted 23-6-6 against Tyran Stokes and the Oakland Soldiers and averaged 14.1 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.6 assists for the tournament across eight games.
One sequence that stood out came down the stretch in the semifinals vs. Team WhyNot. With his team down two points and 50 seconds remaining, Bradley Beal needed a big play, and Coleman provided it with his aggressiveness on the boards. After a missed shot, a Team WhyNot player seemed to have the defensive rebound secured, but Coleman came in and ripped it away. He was then fouled and sent to the line for two free throws. He hit both to tie the game and later had the game-winning block on Team WhyNot’s last-second shot attempt.
Coleman said his shooting and rebounding have been the biggest jumps in his game this summer.
“My high school coach always tells me to be the best rebounder out there and it’s translated to AAU,” Coleman said. “It seems like everyone’s liking it. I’m just doing anything to affect winning. I just go and go get it. I don’t know when it’s going to be the last time I step on this court, so I’m just going to give it everything I have. And that helps my rebounding.”
The Peach Jam title is special for Coleman considering he was playing AAU at the EYCL level with the SW Illinois Jets last summer.
“It’s just a surreal moment man,” Coleman said.
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With his play over the past week or so, Coleman’s recruitment is really starting to pick up. He added offers from Kansas State and Texas Tech on Monday, July 21, to add onto previous offers from schools like Arizona State, St. Bonaventure, St. Louis, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.
Coleman has just been on one visit so far to St. Louis, but he said he’ll be taking some more trips this fall. The combo guard broke down a few of these schools below:
St. Louis: “I just like the campus. It’s 16 minutes away from me, so I just love that, being close to home. [Josh Schertz] runs a great offense. Just the way that he runs it, the way he develops his players, I love it.”
Virginia Tech: “I’m planning a visit soon with them. I’ve been talking with coach [Chester] Frazier down there a lot. I really like him.”
Wake Forest: “Their conference, how big their school is. I like their coach. I did some research on them because I just got an offer from them a few days ago. So I did a little bit of research. I’m still interested to get to know them a little bit and touch down on campus.”
ZAGSBLOG spotted Wake Forest head coach Steve Forbes at each of Coleman’s bracket play games, and he was front-and-center with an assistant for the title game. Schertz was at a couple games and had an assistant present when he wasn’t there. Kansas State head coach Jerome Tang and Texas Tech head coach Grant McCasland were both in Augusta and caught a game, while Virginia Tech had assistants present throughout the week.
Coleman is looking for a few things in his future college home.
“Just a good development system and a team that will let me play, let me rock, let me make mistakes,” Coleman said. “Because when you come down on campus, you’re not going to be perfect. So just a school that will allow me to play and play through mistakes.”
The three-star is ranked the No. 173 overall prospect in the country by 247Sports. Expect his ranking to go way up come 247Sports’ next update.
Coleman isn’t sure if he’ll do a top schools list or anything like that yet, but he did say he wants to commit in Novemberish before high school season starts. The plan is for him to sign early.
Principia head coach Jay Blossom on Coleman: “He’s one of the absolute best rebounding guards around, an incredible shooter and most importantly a flat out winner.”
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