Boston College Athletics
Men's Basketball Signs Third Recruit
November 16, 2000 | Men's Basketball
Nov. 16, 2000
CHESTNUT HILL - Craig Smith, a power forward from Los Angeles, Calif., has signed a national letter of intent to play men's basketball at Boston College next season, according to an announcement made by Eagles' head coach Al Skinner.
Smith, a 6-foot-7-inch, 220-pound forward who plays at Fairfax (Calif.) High School will enter Boston College in the fall of 2001 and begin his collegiate playing career in the 2001-02 season.
Smith earned all-City and all-Westside honors as a junior at Fairfax High School. He averaged 20.7 points and 11.3 rebounds per game for the Lions in 1999-2000. This past summer, he played for Team West in the 2000 USA Men's Basketball Development Festival in Colorado Springs, Colo.
"We think Craig's a rare individual. He's a big, strong player with good size and good quickness for his size," Skinner says. "He has excellent skills. He can dribble, pass and shoot, and that makes him a very unique type of player.
"Craig can post up, but he can also step away from the basket and make plays. He's very versatile for his size. He not as good as Charles Barkley, but he's a Charles Barkley-type of player.
"Craig comes to us from Fairfax High School, which has a very fine tradition of turning out good players and producing good teams."
Smith is the third recruit to sign with the Eagles during the early-signing period.
Boston College, which will lose three scholarship players to graduation following the 2000-01 season, opens its regular season on Sunday, November 19, against St. Peter's at 2 p.m.
