Cotton Signs to Play at Alabama
Schea Cotton, a former Mater Dei High standout, has signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Alabama, coach Mark Gottfried said Wednesday.
The 6-foot-5 guard averaged 25.8 points and 5.8 rebounds last season for Long Beach City College (33-3).
Cotton has three seasons of eligibility remaining.
He was rated one of the top 10 prep seniors in the country in 1997 out of Bellflower St. John Bosco High School. He led Mater Dei to the state Division I championship his sophomore season before transferring.
“He has the potential to make an impact,” said Gottfried, a former assistant at UCLA. Cotton enrolled at UCLA in the summer of ’97 before the NCAA ruled his Scholastic Assessment Test score invalid.
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