Erik Copes, a 6-foot-8 junior at Philadelphia’s Imhotep Institute Charter High School and nephew of GW men’s basketball assistant Roland Houston, has committed to play for GW, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
As the Inquirer notes, Copes’s team won the PIAA Class AA state championship last season while he averaged 2.5 points, eight rebounds and three blocks per game as a sophomore. In the championship game, he collected 11 rebounds and seven blocks.
According to the Northstar Basketball Blog, Copes was also recruited by UConn, Wake Forest, West Virginia, Temple and Niagara. They list GW and Temple as being the two schools to have offered him a scholarship at that time.
