Latest commitments

Chris Hill has committed to Matt Painter and Purdue. As I wrote earlier in the season, during an interview with SSoT (Sports Stars of Tomorrow), Michael Beasley wanted to recruit his friends Chris Hill and Thomas Manzano to Kansas State and Bob Huggins. But since then things have changed, and Bob Huggins bolted out to West Virginia. This story is discussed at the Purdue Rivals.com forum (props to forum member BeeazleBub for the re-imagined Starbuck picture at the bottom of the page), the Illinois Scout.com message board, and the ESPN Purdue boards, and Lafayette-West Lafayette Journal and Courrier boards, and CSTV Purdue.

Pitino gets a local 2007 guard, 6'1" Preston Knowles. The story of his recruitment at CardChronicle.com (an unofficial Louisville Cardinals blog)... Jonathan Huffman recently announced his intent to transfer out. However, the CardChronicle mentions that he may actually stay put, perhaps taking a redshirt year in order to develop further more, while practicing every day against Caracter, Padgett, Farley, space-eater Holloway (assuming 3rd time is a charm for him), and JDT Palacios.

Latest news from CSTV and Bill Hodges: A certain highly-touted SoCal guard current at Oak Hill reopens his recruitment... the new Wyoming head coach makes a splash with a space-eater JuCo... A Champ leaves Oregon after feeling like a reality TV castout this season... A forward leaves Dayton... For the names and details, please visit the CSTV site.

Spring (aka Late) signing day starts April 11 and ends May 16, 2007. The end is really only relevant to players of the class of 2008 and beyond, since players in the class of 2007 can go to school at any point. You don't really need to sign a Letter of Intent, although the current system (geared for the benefit of universities and coaches) puts pressure on student athletes to do so.