Wanted: Tarik Black

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• By Richard Davenport
• 6:17PM on July 3rd, 2009

Arkansas is known to be recruiting several players from the talented Memphis Magic AAU team including power forward Tarik Black.

Black, 6-8, 236 of Memphis (TN) Ridgeway has approximately 20 scholarships including one from Arkansas.

Black, who has a 3.0 grade point average and wants to major in sports medicine in college, spoke to Razorback assistant coach Tom Ostrom after attending CDC Disease Detective Camp in Atlanta last week.

“He was telling me that they really wanted me,” Black said. “He said the scholarship is on the table if I’m ready to take it. He was asking me about the science camp and he was saying it was a good experience and most top players wouldn’t be at a science camp.”

Black said he averaged about 16 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 or 2 blocks a game last season.

Black can be dominating, according to Van Coleman of Hoopmasters.com

“He’s monster when he wants to be,” Coleman said. “When he’s motivated, he rebounds as well as anyone in the 2010 class. He can block shots and really runs the floor well. He has played his way into being one the top 50 players nationally.”

Black said he’s unsure if he’ll attend any elite camps later in the summer because he found out earlier this week that he may have a torn meniscus in his left knee.

“The doctor told me if I decide to keep playing that I’ll have to play with some pain or I can have surgery.” Black said.

Black said he would have about two weeks of rehab if he decides to have surgery.

He said he’s open to all schools and doesn’t favor anyone and plans to narrow his list down sometime in August and plans to sign next spring.