Scoring 49 points in a game has a way of drumming up recruiting interest.

At least that’s what Loch Raven senior Jordan Lee discovered after his 49-point outburst against Hereford earlier this month.

The only problem for those new schools (including Morgan State and several others) in pursuit of Lee was that the 6-foot-3, 175-pound guard had recently been removed from the market, having committed to Coppin State just before his breakout game.

“Yeah, it’s kind of funny [that other schools started recruiting me after that game],” Lee said. “But I like my decision to go to Coppin and I wouldn’t change it.”

Lee, who played his freshman year at Calvert Hall before transferring to Loch Raven, was a little dismayed by the lack of recruiting interest he was receiving up until the summer before his senior year. The summer was when schools like Coppin first started paying attention.

“For three years I was playing good, but I could never get any looks from the schools that I wanted to go to until I got on the AAU circuit with the Baltimore Stars,” Lee said. “Then schools started paying attention to me and coming to my games this year.”

Lee, who is averaging more than 27 points per game, said playing for Eagles coach Fang Mitchell was a big selling point for him.

“I know he has a history of winning,” Lee said. “The other players that he recruited [let me know] the success that we can have when I get there.”

Lee followed up that 49-point game with a 33-point performance against Western Tech. Still, Lee said he had no concerns about dealing with his newly acquired high profile.

“I mean I already had a target on me,” Lee said. “I’m used to it. I’m not worried about that.”

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