For High Point Christian, Edrice Adebabyo, Ty Graves, and Michael Hueitt have been “household” names on the recruiting radar for quite some time. However, don’t forget about 6’8 senior Amidou Bamba! Bamba is simply a workhorse that does all the dirty work, defending and grabbing rebounds. In the scrimmage yesterday, he had the task of going against 6’10 Edrice Adebayo and while Bamba may not have won the war, but he did battle and didn’t back down one bit. As a matter of fact, Bamba did some nice things offensively. He has good footwork in the post and rather soft passer friendly hands. He’s a willing passer out of the post and knows and understands his role perfectly.
Currently, Bamba sports an impressive 4.0 GPA and has offers from Loyola of Maryland, Brown, and Dartmouth. He is now getting interest from Yale, Denver and even Georgia Tech. In addition, Bamba sports an enormous 7’3 wingspan and is excellent at protecting the rim. Offensively, he scores a lot of hustle points, but has developed a nifty left hand jump hook shot in the paint.
Off the court, Bamba is a high character young man. He has his priorities in order and takes his academics as important as his athletic success. He is such a soft spoken and humble person, but carries himself with integrity. You may not know a lot about Bamba, but make sure you do, he’s quality will be the glue guy that is always important in championship runs.