Michigan basketball recruits Carlton Brundidge and Trey Burke headed to state semifinals
Michigan basketball recruit Carlton Brundidge and his Southfield High School team are headed back to the Breslin Center.
Southfield beat East Detroit 59-47 Tuesday night at Calihan Hall in Detroit to earn its second straight trip to the MHSAA Class A final four. Last year, the Blue Jays were eliminated by Huron in a semifinal.
“We have unfinished business,” Brundidge told C&G newspapers after Tuesday’s win. “We’re just striving to win a state championship.”
Southfield will play defending Class A champion Kalamazoo Central at 1 p.m. Friday. Bay City Western and Detroit Southeastern will play in the other Class A semifinal.
Michigan’s other class of 2011 recruit, Trey Burke of Columbus Northland High School, will play in an Ohio state semifinal on Friday night.
Burke was named the state’s Division I co-player of the year by the Associated Press. He shared the honor with Penn State-bound Trey Lewis of Garfield Heights, the team Northland will meet in a semifinal at Ohio State’s Value City Arena.
Brundidge finished fourth in the state of Michigan’s Mr. Basketball voting.
Michigan State-bound Dwaun Anderson of Suttons Bay was named the Mr. Basketball winner on Monday, becoming the first player from a school north of Saginaw to win the award.
Lansing Eastern’s LaDontae Henton (Dayton) and Detroit Country Day’s Amir Williams (Ohio State) finished ahead of the Brundidge in the voting of Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan members. Detroit Southeastern’s Brandon Kearney (Michigan State) was fifth.