I spoke with the father of 2015 Center prospect Georgios Papagiannis, Kanellos Papagiannis,  and he informed me that Georgios would be sitting down and meeting with his professional club team Panathinaikos today or tomorrow.  After meeting with them he should be able to make his decision on whether or not he will play college basketball.  He also informed me that NC State was still recruiting the 2015 big man very hard.  The world has been waiting in anticipation of Papagiannis’ decision, and it looks like they should know by mid-week whether or not he decides to stay in Greece and play professionally, or bring his skills to a college in the United States.

Greece lost yesterday to Turkey in the 3rd place game of the FIBA U19 World Championships.  In Greece’s 7 games in the tournament, Papagiannis averaged 8.1 points (59.5 FG%), 7.7 rebounds and 2.6 blocked shots per contest.