Recruiting Update: Paul Hewitt still trying to bring international flavor to George Mason

A couple students and fans who attended the game last night emailed me saying they noticed a recruit was in the stands last night for George Mason's win over UNCW. If you were at the game you might been wondering why at one point the student section was chanting "We want Marko!". The recruits name is Marko Gujanicic, a 6'8" forward from Serbia who was on the U19 team that played Paul Hewitt's US squad last summer in the FIBA games. He scored 16 points against the US and must have caught Hewitt's eye. This wouldn't be the first international product Hewitt and his staff have been targeting if you remember. Gujanicic is a bit older than most recruits you will see the staff going after and will be 20 years old this September.  But with that he brings experience from playing on a professional team in Serbia, where he averaged 12 points a game last season and shot 33.3% on three-pointers. You can see from this highlight video below he doesn't seem like he's much of a post player but would have the potential to cause match-up problems in the CAA with his size on the wing.



He seems to be an excellent passer and I'm sure his drive and dish ability caught the coaching staff's eye. Gujanicic is currently enrolled in school in California and for him to make the cross country trip to George Mason at this point in the recruitment has to be a good sign.

Another name the staff is after is Michael Carrera, who plays locally at Montrose Christian in Rockville, Maryland. Carrera is a 6'6" forward who is originally from Venezuela and was offered a scholarship to play at Virginia Tech back in June. He is a tough kid who has a nice scoring touch around the basket and is an excellent rebounder. At 205 pounds he already has a Division I body and his coach says he is "relentless on the boards".  He has had a very productive career at one of the nation's top high school basketball programs.

[via CAAZone, Michael Kennington, @ryancioppa]