From the Lafayette Journal & Courier:
West Lafayette junior-to-be Nai Carlisle verbally committed to play basketball at San Jose State University late Monday night.
Kristof Kendrick, a former Central Catholic standout who coaches with the Indiana Elite AAU team Carlisle plays for, Tweeted out the news at approximately 10:30 p.m. Monday.
The six-foot Class of 2016 point guard averaged 17 points, 3.1 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 1.7 steals and shot 32.4 percent from 3-point range as a sophomore, helping the Red Devils win a Hoosier Conference championship. Carlisle also helped lead West Lafayette to a sectional championship in 2013 as a freshman.
That means it will be quite a wait for the 6-foot, 180-pound young man but the significance of this is SJSU doesn't get two years out alliances. It's remarkable the young man pulled the trigger now as this is something usually only the Dukes and Kentuckys are able to line up.
Carlisle's father Duane is employed at Purdue as the director of sports performance so some Boilermaker fans are in a tizzy over this commitment. The family used to live in San Jose and his brother is a senior running back at Notre Dame but attended Kings Academy in Sunnyvale.
In early June, Carlisle was out west: "The 6-footer took unofficial visits to Cal on Saturday, SJSU today, and will hit Santa Clara on Wednesday."
Here's a May 9, 2014 feature on the young man.
Here's one from 2013.
Below is some video:
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