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Cardinal Hayes' Sidibe picks Fairfield

The city’s best big man in the Class of 2012 is off the board.

Amadou Sidibe, a 6-foot-8 power forward from Cardinal Hayes, verbally committed to head coach Sydney Johnson and Fairfield on Monday night, sources told The Post.

Sidibe held offers from Hofstra, Fordham, Iona, Boston University, Drexel, Siena, St. Peter’s and others. But he was sold, a source said, after taking an official visit to the MAAC school over the weekend.

Sidibe actually committed to Fordham during his sophomore year, but de-committed when former Rams assistant Jared Grasso (now at Iona) wasn’t hired as head coach. He’s helped lead the Cardinals to the CHSAA Class A finals each of the last two years.

Check back later with NYPost.com for more coverage of Amadou Sidibe’s commitment to Fairfield

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    A sports reporter for the New York Post, Zach Braziller covered high-school sports in New York City for eight years, beginning with an internship at the New York Sun. A graduate of Drew University, he moved on to serve as the sports editor of the Queens Courier newspaper for five years and also worked for SNY.tv in that time, covering the area’s three local hockey clubs and the New York Giants before moving on to The Post. Braziller’s work has also appeared in The New York Times and the Houston Chronicle.

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