Recruit Roundup: Nigel Johnson headed for Ivies now?

Brandon Parker of AllMet Sports (The Washington Post's source for high school sports) reported this afternoon that Nigel Johnson has decommitted from George Washington after orally committing there in September.

Why does this matter to Penn? Johnson is a senior point guard at Riverside Baptist in Upper Marlboro, Md., and he has who has stood out as one of the best As a junior, Johnson led all Virginia Group AAA players in scoring last season with an average of 29.5 points per game, and he's certainly one of the area's top point guards.

And Johnson had offers from American, Bucknell, Cornell, William & Mary, Northwestern, Brown, Princeton, Lehigh, Robert Morris, Delaware, Drexel, UNC Greensboro, Florida International and Quinnipiac before originally committing to GW. That's three Ivies and another City 6 rival who have another shot at nabbing Johnson, who remains ESPN's No. 8 Maryland state recruit.