Damon Harge first gained national attention here at Prep Rally for blowing up the North Carolina high school hoops scene while still in the sixth grade.
Now he's getting noticed by some pretty talented pros and college
coaches, one of whom just took the dramatic step of making Harge
possibly the first sixth-grader to receive a Division I college
basketball scholarship offer.
As first noted on Twitter by Michael Monroe of Hoops Report, and later confirmed by the player himself on the same medium, 12-year-old Damon Harge recently received a scholarship offer from North Carolina Central,
despite having yet to enter the seventh grade. The scholarship offer
was also directly confirmed with a Prep Rally source by the Harge
family.
Harge, a diminutive but nearly unguardable point guard (he stands
just 5-foot-4 and 120 pounds), has drawn favorable comparisons with the
likes of John Wall
in recent years, and now at least one college coach has seen enough to
be convinced that he has a future at the next level … even if that level
may be six years away.
The budding star received the offer while working out in Raleigh with reining NBA Rookie of the Year Kyrie Irving, fellow pro Nolan Smith, current N.C. State star C.J. Leslie and soon-to-be N.C. State super frosh Rodney Purvis.
Despite being the youngest and least experienced player there by a
mile, Harge reportedly held his own, convincing N.C. Central coach
LaVelle Moton that Harge is the real deal.
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