One of the most overlooked boys basketball prospects in Metro Detroit, Oak Park combo guard Geon Hutchins, committed to Northern Iowa University last week.

The crafty 6-foot-3 Hutchins will be a four-year starter for the Oak Park Knights when his 2024-2025 senior campaign tips off in the winter. He’s averaged a combined 16 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists per night the past three seasons in the rough-and-tumble OAA.

Even with his teams not getting a lot of coverage or hype, competing in the OAA and on the AAU circuit with The Family on Nike’s EYBL bumped up Hutchins’ recruiting stock.

“That’s invaluable experience that’s put Geon on the map,” Inside Prep Sports founder and the state’s preeminent scout T.J. Kelley said. “Geon plays a very balanced style of basketball. He can create for himself and others on the perimeter, he can score from the outside or from attacking the rim. He’s got length, athleticism, and for whatever reason, kind of floated under the radar. Northern Iowa did their homework here and bagged themselves a nice find.”

Hutchins had other scholarship offers from Oakland University, Central Michigan, Western Michigan and Robert Morris. He visited Northern Iowa days prior to his pledge. Northern Iowa sophomore point guard R,J. Taylor is from Grand Blanc.

GG3 favors the color orange these days

The OAA’s defending scoring champ, Farmington’s Grey Grays III, transferred to Birmingham Brother Rice from the Falcons recently.

Grays III is entering his junior year and will be a high-octane addition to the Catholic League Central, arguably the toughest conference in the state right now. He’s tickled the twine for almost 24 points per game in each of the last two seasons.

His dad is Greg Grays, maybe the greatest pure scorer the city of Southfield has ever had in its midst, who helped lead Southfield-Lathrup to a spot in the 1996 Class A state finals and had a 61-point outing as a senior in 1997 before heading off to have a college career at Penn State and U-D Mercy.

Decking the Hall

North Farmington assistant boys basketball coach Tom Negoshian, the program’s “Godfather,” will be inducted into the BCAM Hall of Fame later this year.

The esteemed 77-year old Negoshian built Raiders hoops into suburban-power status in the 1980s, 90s, and 2000s, with more than 300 victories on his resume until turning over the reins to his son, Todd, who has elevated the program to even further heights, with his pops serving as his No. 2 man on the bench.

Together, they guided North Farmington to the D1 state championship game in 2016, and again back in March.

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“My mama raised a killer on the court,” — Geon Hutchins.