Steve Lavin lands two more recruits

Steve Lavin continues to clean up on the recruiting trail, as he landed two more quality recruits yesterday.

Dominick Pointer, an athletic, 6'5" small forward from Detroit that plays his high school ball in North Carolina, committed yesterday afternoon. He picked the Red Storm over Michigan.

Pointer wasn't the only Johnnies commit on Monday. JuCo point guard Nurideen Lindsey, a big-time scorer whose saga was chronicled earlier this off-season by the New York Times, committed to Steve Lavin's club over a number of other big-time programs.

Nurideen Lindsey didn't have the easiest upbringing in Philly.
(photo credit: NY Times)

Lindsey and Pointer join JaKarr Sampson, D'Angelo Harrison, and Maurice Harkless as members of the 2011 St. John's recruiting class. While this group is not quite on the level of the class that Kentucky is bringing in next season, Lavin has put together a group that will match up with just about any recruiting class in the Big East.

And he's not done yet.

The Red Storm have ten seniors on scholarship for this season, meaning that Lavin has only filled half of his available scholarships for the 2011-2012 season. Lindsey is a combo-guard, Harrison is a two-guard, and Pointer, Sampson, and Harkless are all small forwards, which means that Lavin would do well to land some size and a point guard, especially when you consider he also brought in small forward Dwayne Polee this season.

While there may be a logjam on the perimeter, the bottom line is that, Lavin has four top 100 freshmen and a JuCo player that averaged 38 ppg as a high school junior playing in Philly joining his program in 2011.

That's a damn good start.