Matt Jameson 6'1" point guard from Newport Harbor H.S. in Orange County. Matt was a 4 year starter and averaged 17 ppg and 7 assists his senior year but had no scholarship offers. As of June after graduation, he was planning on attending Tulane and hoping to walk on there.

Matt's dad retained BG in June, after graduation, and the rest is history. BG talked to all schools throughout the country who still had a scholarship and were looking for a point guard and sent them a film package of Matt.

Those that were interested, which included Wisconsin and Miami of Florida were informed that Matt would also be playing in the adidas Big Time Tournament in Las Vegas in July with Branch West, where they could see him live.

Matt played extremely well in Las Vegas, and Princeton, Tulsa and Navy all said they would take him if he went to prep school for a year.

Matt declined going to prep school  and when only Miami of Ohio offered a full scholarship for the fall, he accepted. At Miami, he has been an extremely well respected reserve combo guard for the Redskins.

His sophomore year, when the starting point guard was hurt and could not play, Matt started on the road against Notre Dame, played 30 minutes and Miami of Ohio upset the highly favored Irish.

This past year as a senior, Matt had started approximately half the games and is considered a tough hard nosed defender and solid all around player.  Matt fell in love with Miami of Ohio and had a wonderful academic and social experience as well as a very rewarding 4 years in the basketball program.

As an interesting aside, Charley Coles, long time head coach at Miami of Ohio, is in their Hall of Fame as a player.  In addition, after his senior year on the court was over, Charley played for Bob Gottlieb who was the player-coach of a very good AAU basketball team that played in a number of the top post season AAU events in Ohio, in the Unlimited Open Division.

Matt Jameson and one Bob Gottlieb is extremely proud of.