Don't know much about the kid but he played in the top New England prep league (Kolek played 3 leagues lower). His teammates included a bunch of top D1 recruits including Terrance Williams, Jamal Mashburn JR, Jahvon Garcia (UMASS), Marcus Dockery, Matt Cross, Damar Langford and Kadary Richmond. It says on their site that he is "committed to George Mason". They were best prep school in the country last year having lost just 1 game all year. Jason Smith would be a replacement coach option for me as well as he has won 7 National Prep Championships since 2010 and already recruits better than Paulsen lol...
From NERR "Jake Nichols has been limited by injury this fall". Could explain no offers... maybe not though
He also played at Boys Latin in MD before making the jump to Brewster
Watch his highlight videos, looks like he didn't see much floor time. Longest is 40 seconds at most. Can't find any of his highschool stats, only numbers I could find were some AAU numbers where he averaged just over 8 PPG. Injury might have limited him from getting some exposure for his senior season, but it looks like he really never got a ton of PT in either AAU or high school ball.