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Georgia Tech offers four-star SG Emanuel Sharp

Since the clock struck midnight on June 15, Emanuel Sharp’s phone has been ringing off the hook with college coaches hoping to get in touch with him.

Texas Tech was the first to call, followed by texts from Georgia Tech, Georgia, Ohio State and Florida State. Each of those schools made contact with Sharp by 12:50 a.m. By lunch time Sharp had heard from SMU, Houston (head coach Kelvin Sampson), USF (head coach Brian Gregory) and Florida.

Georgia Tech Basketball Recruiting Emanuel Sharp
Bishop McLaughlin SG Emanuel Sharp at the Hoop Exchange Spring Showcase in Orlando on March 7, 2020. (Photo courtesy of HoopSeen)
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Calls and texts kept coming the rest of the day including one from Rick Pitino at Iona, in the afternoon, and offer from Georgia Tech head coach Josh Pastner at after 10:30 p.m.

JacketsOnline.com reached out to Sharp, the No. 54 ranked prospect in the Rivals150 for the 2022 class, Monday night to confirm the Georgia Tech offer.

"Yes, I did. He just offered me," Sharp said via text message about talking with Pastner.

"Not much was said, he was just telling me I'm a great player that they would love to have at the school, and they will continue to heavily recruit me."

Sharp admitted that he was not very familiar with the Yellow Jackets program."

Not really, my dad was just showing me a list of the great players that played there before," he said before adding "It's a really great school."

We asked Sharp, a four-star shooting guard, what it was like to finally have direct contact with Division I coaches.

“It feels great. I’ve been waiting for this day. I didn’t actually know it was going to be this hectic. I thought it was just going to be a few coaches calling me. I didn’t know it would be a bunch of coaches contacting me and it feels good to know that I’m being recognized by other coaches.

Between high school games, Nike EYBL games, camps and playing for the Israeli National Team in the FIBA U16 European Championship in Italy; Sharp played a basketball game every month from November 2018 to August 2019 and with quite a bit of travel to boot. Then it was workouts and open gyms in September, Fall League in October and then in November his 2019-2020 season began.

So the “break” Sharp is getting now, due to the global pandemic, is somewhat appreciated by the rising junior.

“It’s year round,” Sharp said about his basketball schedule. “Most of the players never really get a break. I know I was exhausted at the end of the summer last year. So, like, this break I can work on what I really need to work on instead of constant basketball, basketball, basketball. Now, I can sit down and really, like, look at the things I need to improve on like my body or whatever. Now, I can work on that and then come into the next season prepared.

Sharp has transferred from Blake High School to Bishop McLaughlin as have his Blake teammate Anthony Davis Jr. and Sickles forward Dillon Mitchell.

“We haven’t gone to see the rest of my teammates because of the break. We haven’t been practicing because we’re trying to (social) distance ourselves as much as possible, but we’ve gone into the gym, at least, to get shots up and stuff.

Stay with JacketsOnline.com for future updates on Emanuel Sharp and for the best coverage of Georgia Tech basketball and football recruiting.

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