How Kevin Boyle Reloaded Montverde Academy For Another Championship Run

Montverde Academy (FL) head coach Kevin Boyle stacked eight impressive newcomers around returning stars R.J. Barrett and Andrew Nembhard for the 2017-18 season.

Aug 22, 2017 by Brett Regan

How Kevin Boyle Reloaded Montverde Academy For Another Championship Run

There are teams that know how to rebuild, and those that can completely reload. Count Montverde Academy (FL) as a program that can do both at an extremely high level.

With the school year starting, head coach Kevin Boyle and the Eagles gave a quick peek at 10 significant players on their roster for the upcoming 2017-18 season, and it's a unbelievably stacked with pieces for now and the future.

What's crazy is not the fact Montverde will be really, really good once again. Instead, it is because the Eagles might be "preseason best team in the country" good with two superstar cornerstone pieces and eight, yes eight, transfers.

[tweet url="https://twitter.com/MVABasketball/status/898596888278056960" hide_media="0" hide_thread="1"]
[tweet url="https://twitter.com/MVABasketball/status/898929812605206528" hide_media="0" hide_thread="1"]
It's no secret the team's returning star is R.J. Barrett, who, at this point, needs no further introduction after recently reclassifying to the Class of 2018. Following a stellar sophomore season, he went on an absolute tear to lead the Nike EYBL in scoring in just two sessions and guided Team Canada to the FIBA U19 World Cup gold medal en route to tournament MVP honors, easily making him the best player in the country entering his final prep season.

Additionally, the Eagles also get game-changing Flo40 point guard Andrew Nembhard back healthy after missing the end of last season and most of the spring and summer. Nembhard also reclassified to 2018 this offseason.

Those two prospects together have enough firepower to lead the Eagles back to the DICK's Nationals promised land, but the transfers Boyle landed are elite, too:

-- Filip Petrusev (Avon Old Farms (CT) - 2018) is from Serbia and considered one of the top international prospects playing high school basketball.

-- Kevin Zhang (La Lumiere School (IN) - 2018) transfers from the team that defeated Montverde in the national title game and is arguably the best Chinese basketball prospect in America.

-- Makhel Mitchell (Bishop McNamara (MD) - 2019) and Makhi Mitchell (Bishop McNamara (MD) - 2019) are two huge transfers and Maryland commitments who can make a big impact in the next two years. Makhi has spent some time in the 2019 Flo40.

-- Jordan Mitchell (Gahanna (Ohio) - 2019) was a great complementary piece for All Ohio Red in the Nike EYBL, which was a No. 1 seed at Peach Jam. He averaged 11.7 points during his sophomore high school season.

-- Mike DeVoe (Oak Ridge (FL) - 2018) is a premier bucket-getter who can fill it up with the best prospects in the country. He averaged 15.7 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 4.5 assists per game during the Nike EYBL for Nike South Beach.

-- Trevin Wade (South Cobb (GA) - 2018) is a sneaky good piece with crazy bounce at 5-foot-10.

-- Karrington Davis (Chaminade (MO) - 2018) is another really solid supplemental scorer and proved it by averaging 8.8 points on a very deep Bradley Beal Elite (MO) squad in the Nike EYBL.

At the end of the day, this team belongs to Barrett and Nembhard, but it's beyond important to note how Boyle and his staff have reloaded this roster to be as dangerous as any team in the country and primed for another title run.