Weekend Update

Rob Harrington of the online edition of the multi-color fishwrap wonders who will take over the class of 2008?.

He also posts his initial class rankings of 2008

CNNSI.com talks about Greg Monroe being a force. And who will be the lucky team and coach to sign him for at least one year?

Good news for the CAA according to the Hodge Report of CSTV as UNC Wilmington boldy goes (bald) and gets a 2008 forward.

Yes, all the silly puns are intended, although not necessarily funny. If they were, I would be on Comedy Central :)

Goodman blogs about Florida;s new center. Dick Hoops Weiss chimes in as well.

Goodman also talks about Billy Gillespie's recruiting efforts at Kentucky. Also at FireBilly

Kentucky recruiting thoughts at A Sea of Blue

Marshall picks up some of the Zags magic as they get P-Mac as a transfer. P-Mac is short for Pierre Marie Altidor Cespedes (I did not cut/paste folks, I typed it all in!). P-Mac was grandfathered in the now doomed (and deemed free agency rule) that was rescinded. But he petitioned and he was grandfathered in so he will be eligible to play in 2007-2008, his final year of eligibility. New head coach Donnie Jones (former Florida assistant) is stockpiling talent and hopes to take advantages of the vacuum of power at the top of Conference USA behind the Calipari Experiment and the loaded UAB squad.

The George Mason blog says that Coach L is pursuing four players from the DC Assault AAU team, three in 2009 and one in 2010.

The Indiana Hoosiers are considering a new arena. The Kelvin Sampson effect?

Minnessota recruiting news at Paging Jim Shikenjanski

Seton Hall recruiting at the Big East Basketball Repor(t)

Latest updates

Latest updates from CSTV's Hodge Repor(t) include Villanova getting a local 2009 guard, Billy the Diva Donovan getting a local 2008 center on the heels of his five players getting drafted by the NBA last night. A former Tubby Smith commit at Kentucky goes to Izzo State, while Kelvin "500+ calls" Sampson loses a 2008 commit. For all the details and player profiles visit CSTV's Hodge Repor(t)


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Latest updates

The latest news from the Hodge Report at CSTV: LaSalle gets a new player but is he as good as Bill Raftery? :) New players added by Kentucky, Hofstra, Long Beach State and Seton Hall. Half a dozen players transfers out to smaller schools for more playing time, including players from Miami, Houston, Rutgers, and Lousiana Tech. For all the details and player profiles check the Hodge Report at CSTV

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New news

Latest news from The Hodge Report on CSTV: Tony Bennett's singing abilities got him a local 2009 guard, while some players have announced their new transfer destinations, including Johnny Wolf (formerly of Xavier) and Bryson Krueger (ex of Arizona State). Adding new players were a couple of mid-majors. Their updates include contributions from TexasHoops.com

NBA Draft TV schedule here

Monday Night Hoops

Latest news from the Hodge Report of CSTV: Majerus continues to scoop up recruits as if they were plates at an all you can eat buffet (sorry, I couldn't resist saying that), while Arizona picks up a top 100 center that recently decommitted from PitinoVille. Check CSTV for details, player profiles and more. Free of charge.

Randy Hill takes a critical look at the youth movement at Fox Sports. This was inspired by the recent commitment of Ryan Boatwright to Tim Floyd's USC Trojans... Randy mentions that top 100s of zygotes. I already did that and i'm working on a pre-embryonic top 100, but I have a lot of tape to go through first! :-)

A Sea of blue has a number of recruiting updates including DeAndre Liggins and Draymond Green.

Quick updates from Dick Hoops Weiss on HoopGroup's Metro Classic, Malik Wayns, Devin Ebanks, Hakeem Harris and Mike Quick. Bookmark his blog!

The George Mason Basketball blog also opines on recruiting the babies.

Webcasts of games at HSBNetwork.net

Very few high school and summer AAU basketball games are available on TV, but thanks to the internet, you can watch as many as you like. One of the websites on the frontier of this is HSBNetwork.tv. The games are available On-Demand from their website. Free access by signing up for the free Ballers All-Star Report. They cover events such as:

Rumble in the Bronx

Reebok All American Camp and All Star game

iS8 (Nike)

GymRat challenge

NY Metro AAU

The list of their upcoming webcasts at HSBNetwork.tv. You can also purchase games on DVD. And if you are wondering, these are the most highly webratings-rated games

The HSB Network is a source of high quality audio-visual content complete with all-star commentary to the ever growing high school basketball audience which will now include not only full webcasts and highlights but downloadables and podcasts. In addition, The HSB Network will start showing webcasts from around the country and will offer a subscription service for college coaches and student-athletes to offer DVD's and webcasts of exclusive high school work-outs, camps and clinics.

Weekly TV Guide (posted every Monday)

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Saturday June 30, 6:00 AM and 1230pm, Lake Oswego (featuring Kevin Love) vs. Mater Dei, on Fox College Sports.

Sat June 30, 5pm, and 1230am, Wisconsin Division 1 final, Milwaukee Vincent vs. Oshkosh West, on Fox College Sports (FCS)

Monday, July 2, 1:00 PM, Florida 4A final, Kathleen vs. Monsignor Pace, Florida Class 4A Tournament, Final. From Lakeland, Fla., Fox College Sports

Thursday, July 5, 2pm, 2003 Progressive Classic: Edgewater (Orlando) at Lincoln (Brooklyn), from Dec. 11, 2003, on ESPN Classic. This is the epic Sebastian Telfair vs Darius Washington game, at the height of the Bassy phenomenon.

The College Basketball related TV schedule including game repeats, docs and the NBA draft can be found at NCAA Hoops Today

All times pacific, add +3 for eastern and adjust otherwise for your time zones!

Every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd


Webcasts

Upcoming webcasts of games at HSBNetwork.tv. Including Rumble in the Bronx, Reebok All American Camp and All Star game, iS8 (Nike), GymRat challenge, NY Metro AAU, and many more

Weekend update

Don't miss tonight's two hour Hoop Scoop On Radio with Clark Francis and Ron Neclario. The program is free to listen to online, live or tape-delayed. It is broadcast live online from 10pm thru midnight (EST) (7pm thru 9pm pacific).

Dick Hoops Weiss looks at Lance Stepheson's performance. With OJ Mayo and Kevin Love in college, the field is wide open for Lance Stepheson to become the next big thing. Stepheson is 6'5" and in the class of 2009 (rising junior)

More recruiting coverage from Dick Weiss on the Elite 100 camp

Cracked Sidewalks looks at 2008 point guard prospect Jordan Theodore

Gary Parrish takes a meta-look at the world of recruiting. He touched upon Ryan Boatwright committing to USC and Anthony Jones committing and decommitting to Texas A&M in the blink of aneye.

NCAA clears Tyler Smith

Latest updates from the Hodge Report on CSTV:

The NCAA surprises a number of people by showing compassion and common sense and clearing Iowa transfer to play for Bruce Pearl's Volunteers next season without having to sit out one transfer year.

A 2008 top 100 forward parts ways with the Suttons

NC State gets a 2010 forward, but opposing ACC students and fans are going to have a field day with his last name

Friday Recruits

New news from the Hodge Report on CSTV: A Top 100 forward qualifies for Wake Forst, Stanford gets a 2008 from NC (the state, not UNC), and Davidson signs two new players, one of which has the same last name as the head coach. Coincidence? ;-)

Happy Birthday Pistol Pete (would have turned 60 today)!

Thanks to author Wayne Federman for the reminder: Pistol Pete Maravich would have turned 60 today, Friday June 22, 2007. Wayne wrote the book "Maravich". Official website of his book at MaravichBook.com.

More on Pistol Pete: A great mix of Pistol Pete highlights on YouTube.com. Wayne has also been interviewed by NPR. And the one and only Bill Walton talks about Maravich. For those in or near Los Angeles, the author Wayne Federman will be having a book signing, discussion and Q&A on Tuesday June 26, at 730pm (pacific time) at the Barnes and Noble at the Grove.




Also check my previous posts on Pistol Pete here, and here

Transferology

Thanks to Hoops Boston for a link to my previous post on basketball prodigy (?) J-Mychal Reese. Hoops Boston covers all things hoops in Boston. They also have an interesting poll, asking which member of the 1986 Boston Celtics is the best NBA executive so far. Very familiar names are in the list, such as Larry Bird, Danny Ainge, Robert Parish, Dennis "microwave" Johnson, Bill Walton, Kevin McHale. But the top voter is not one of those. Read on to find out who...

The latest updates at CSTV's Hodge Report inform us that a D1 players transfers from one Texas school to another. However, more than a dozen additional D1 transfers have been announced. The most high profile is probably Jonathan "I thought I was the next Kevin Garnett" Huffman of PitinoVille... On the pledge front, Heath-less Arkansas gets a new guard, while USC added another player for next season who was in 2008 beforehand. As you may recall USC did that last year when they accelerated the graduation of Daniel Hackett who was supposed to come in in 2007-2008, but instead joined the team in 2006-2007 after it lost Ryan Francis to a tragic death and Gabe Pruitt to academic ineligibility.

Arizona scored another big man says Jeff Goodman. Big man Kirk Walters has been given a medical redshirt and will return for 2007-2008

FoxSports looks at Tim Floyd offering scholarships to eighth graders. Story by

A Sea of Blue has an update on the Supreme Court looking at recruiting middle-school football players by the Brentwood Academy.

Jeff Goodman says that summer camps are really going to stress skill development. He also posts a schedule of the key July events, including the Nike Peach Jam, RBK: U, adidas Super 64, and the Nike Main Event.

Speaking of summer camp schedules, here are select Nike summer events

Tomorrow I will be revealing my pre-embryonic Top 10 ranking of college basketball recruits. Regular readers of this blog may recall that I managed to post the first ranking of embryos, beating all the industry giants to this, well ahead of Hoop Scoop, Rivals, Scout, ESPN, CSTV, Fans Only, Hoopmasters, Tom Konchalski, etc :-)

Dick "Hoops" Weiss looks at the impact of last year's NBA draft early entry rule to college basketball.

HoopsFuture.com posted their top five players of the Nike Hoops Jamboree. Included is 7-footer (7'2") John Riek from the Sudan

More updates on the Scouts front page. Subscription is required for a number of their stories, but not all of them.

Gary Parrish reports that Memphis big man Kareem Cooper is visiting UTEP. What's the link? The UTEP head coach Tony Barbee was an assistant at Memphis the last few years. Cooper was part of the Laurenberg Institute dream team that committed together to Calipari's Experiment.

Wall to wall Big 10 recruiting coverage by Justin Young of Rivals at Yahoo Sports

Embryonic Recruiting

The battle for signing the nation's top embryos is raging among college basketball coaches. The pre-embryonic signing period ends tonight ;-)

Why the above? Well we are not far off. USC has picked up an eighth grader according to Fox Sports. Tim Floyd has picked up 5-10 rising freshman (2011 class) Ryan Boatwright. Tim Floyd also picked up Dwayne Polee Jr last year of a similar class standing.

Clark Francis has a new post in the Visitors section of his website (very long page full of text with tiny fonts), talking about his Top 750 players in the class of 2008. Not a typo, not top 75, but top 750. Seven hundred and fifty... Last week's post looks at the top players in the state of Texas, a very fertile ground in the world of basketball (and football) recruiting.

Dick Hoops Weiss has a quick update on NBA's Elite 100 and USA Basketball's 19-and-under Festival in Colorado.

Dick Hoops Weiss also reports that Pitino is currently the leader for touted and coveted 2008 Tyreke Evans. Dick has updates from the AAU circuit as well, including a Clark Francis reference.

The Hodge Report at CSTV has new updates, new players for Kansas and Bill Self, Mississippi State, Xavier, Miami of Florida, Tulane (2), and a number of Texan schools. Also a Texan point guard wants to become the next Jared Jordan as he transfers to Marist. Marist is now mid-major point guard U! Meanwhile Texas A&M lost a 2008 player that decided on A&M just this Monday... Meanwhile Billy Clyde Glide Gillispie picks up a 2010 forward (rising sophomore).

Some of the top uncommitted players of 2008 and 2009 are also Kentucky targets according to A Sea of Blue

Sad news for Texan forward Gary Johnson, a medical condition detected during a routine physical at UT-Austin will keep him out of action at least for this year according to Goodman's blog

College Hoops on TV? I kid you not. Of course the games are repeats, and most of the documentaries are repeats, but if you are a hoops fan-addict (not to be confused with fan-anatic), then take a look at the massive tv schedule for the next few days. Extensive TV NBA Draft coverage is included as a bonus :-) Also check the tv schedule for recruiting-related programming such as repeats of state high school championship finals. Some of the players featured include UCLA-bound Kevin Love, and Kentucky-bound AJ Stewart, although Stewart was in foul-trouble in the Florida 2A final.

Top 99 Class of 2008 in the Sporting News Magazine!

The June 18 (6/18/2007) edition of the weekly TSN (The Sporting News) features the Top 99 high school players in the class of 2008. The story is by Mike DeCourcy (or is it De Courcy?). Half of their top ten players ranked are uncommitted (two of them committed after the story was printed). The story is on page 12 (four full pages long). Greg Monroe is emerging as a #1 (size matters), while the last spot (#99) goes to Stanford-bound wing Jarrett Mann (no relation to Juwanna Mann?)... Who is not included? Once upon a time considered a very promising forward, Malik Story has cooled off significantly... This issue features Keith Olbermann on the cover.

Weekly TV Guide (posted every Monday)

All times pacific, add +3 for eastern and adjust otherwise for your time zones!

Monday, Jun 18, 12:00 PM, Florida 2A final, Arlington Country Day vs. Port St. Joe, Florida Class 2A Tournament, Final. From Lakeland, Fla., Fox College Sports

Tuesday June 19, midnight (from Monday to Tuesday), Florida 1A final, The Rock vs Pine Castle Christian, on Fox College Sports.

Tuesday, Jun 19, 6:00 PM, Lake Oswego (featuring Kevin Love) vs. Mater Dei, on Fox College Sports.

Sunday June 24, 10am, Michigan Class B final, from East Lansing, on Fox College Sports.

Saturday June 30, 6:00 AM and 1230pm, Lake Oswego (featuring Kevin Love) vs. Mater Dei, on Fox College Sports.

Sat June 30, 5pm, Wisconsin Division 1 final, Milwaukee Vincent vs. Oshkosh West, on Fox College Sports (FCS)

The College Basketball related TV schedule including game repeats, docs and the NBA draft can be found at NCAA Hoops Today

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Every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd

Monday Morning Point Guard

New weekly feature: Every Monday during the off-season I will be posting the TV schedule (in a separate post) of recruiting related programming, including repeats of games, documentaries, and such. The TV schedule that is more related to college basketball, such as games, documentaries and the NBA draft will be posted at NCAA Hoops Today

New updates from the Hodge Report at CSTV: Another Jones commits to Texas A&M, while comedian-coach Phil Martelli gets a 2007 guard from New England... Also don't forget to visit Van Coleman's recruiting pages at CSTV

Ryan Canner-O'Maley of Rise Magazine looks at the perfect starting five regardless of high school class at HoopsFuture.com. Three of the five have links to SoCal.

A Sea of Blue looks at recruit Rotnei Clarke

Lots of recruiting coverage at Scout.com, some is free, some for subscribers only

Top 100 players in the Class of 2007 according to Scout.com

Justin Young of Rivals posts his Big 12 recruiting rankings at Yahoo Sports. The Hand of Huggins, but no Huggins to be found!

Mike De Courcy of TSN (Sporting News) looks at some of the gems of the 2008 class. He uses the rankings of HoopMasters, Rivals and Scout to make his case... If Clark Francis was asked about a specific player on that list, he would say "I've been telling you about him four years ago!"

Every 2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament game on DVD!

Weekend update

Lots of updates at the Hodge Report on CSTV

The Devin Ebanks mystery is over. And the winner is... the coach with the 500+ phone calls :)

UConn grabs a touted 2008 guard from Rice (HS in New York, not the University in Houston)

Not to be outdone and despite losing Barry Rohssen, Pitt got a 2008 player from the NY/NJ area as well

Also getting a 2008 guard was Old Dominion.

About a dozen players downgraded (transfers from D1 to D2 or NAIA)

For all the details, check the Hodge Report at CSTV

Van Coleman of CSTV posts his final rankings of the class of 2007. Who was the #1 player? Read on to find out! (I don't want to spoil it!). Here is a misleading hint: Some people love mayo ;-) While some rankers give Top 50 or Top 100 or even Top 150, Van Coleman went all the way with a Top 250! Well done! And who is #250 you think? Why who else? Michael Jordan's son!

More on the Devin Ebanks commitment at Fox Sports

An ESPN Insider post with a free teaser talks about Samardo Samuels and Louisville

Got an Amazon gift certificate for father's day? Don't waste it on books or ties. Buy every DVD from the 2007 NCAA tournament instead ;-)

2007 Nike Summer Events Schedule

Nike Skills Academies

Steve Nash Skills Academy (June 29-July 1 – Union, NJ)

Kobe Bryant Skills Academy (June 25-27 – Santa Ana, CA)

Vince Carter Skills Academy (June 25-27 – Orlando, FL)

Amare Stoudemire Skills Academy (June 29-July 1 – Mesa, AZ)

LeBron James US Skills Academy, University of Akron (Akron, OH), July 6-9, 2007 (6th is open for observation only)

Nike Global Challenge
Featuring the top 40 players from the LeBron James US Skills Academy in an eight team tournament with national teams from Canada, Puerto Rico, China and Senegal, University of Portland (Portland, OR), July 29-31, 2007

For more details, please visit HoopsFuture.com

It's Friday!

Magnum Rolle makes a decision where to transfer according to the Hodge Repor(t) at CSTV. As always with these type of things, there's more to the story than meets the eye. Find out the real reasons at the Hodge Report.

TV Guide segment: games with D1 prospects in the next few days (repeats).

College Hoops updates at NCAA Hoops Today

More details on the Samardo Samuels commitment to PitinoVille at HoopsFuture.com

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Geaux Tigers!

An interesting debate, is Memphis a mid-major?. And thanks for the link to this blog :-)

The latest updates from the Hodge Report have the Tigers roaring: The LSU Tigers got a 2009 guard, while the Missouri Tigers for a forward... If you like suspense, Top 100 forward Devin Ebanks will announce on Saturday between three schools. Details at the Hodge Report at CSTV. Meanwhile Majerus uses his Wisconsin ties to get a 2008 guard from that state, while Wyoming gets a euro-7-footer...

Am I the only one who thinks the number of seven footers has increased? Too many growth hormones in our food?

Andy Katz (free story) has a story on Virginia Tech being one of the first victims of new NCAA legislation combating diploma mills. Read all about it.

Lots of stories at March Madness All Season at CHN including Samardo Samuels commiting to Rick PitinoVille

College hoops news at NCAA Hoops Today

Every NCAA 2007 tourney game on DVD

Mid-week report

Every 2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament game on DVD!

The Hodge Report at CSTV has new news: Rick Pitino gets a top 100 forward out of Jersey (2008 class), Majerus gets another commit, Colorado State has signed a player who has changed college choices twice already before even setting foot on a campus, Ohio State and Valpo lose a commit, but Nevada gains a local one.

OJ Mayo mania at Jeff Goodman's blog. Goodman also talks about the potential impact of Pitino's new 2008 forward. The OJ post has generated a lot of discussion among the readers. As expected.

More on Jamaican forward Samardo Samuels and Louisville at FoxSports.

Goodman also talks about Nevada beating the Thad Matta Express for the services of a local but touted prospect.

On the anniversary of the "Tear down this Wall" speech, Rivals.com has decided to enact their own perestroika by making more of their content available to the masses. This latest story by Justin Young looks at mid-major recruiting. Although some mid-major fans will argue that neither Memphis nor Gonzaga are really mid-majors. Gonzaga is a designer mid-major, while Memphis is a "BCS" team trapped in a mid-major conference while undergoing the Calipari Experiment.

More recruting updates at A Sea of Blue featuring 2010 player (Dakotah Euton), Cortney Fortson, and Andre Clark... A Sea of Blue shares my worries that Coach K may use his polish heritage to grab the jumping jack polish sensation Oleg Czyz.

Updates on six of the top 50 players in the class of 2008 at John Clay's Sidelines blog.

Iktmmedia.com talks about Kentucky recruiting, including the new jumping jack sensation from Poland, Olek Czyz, along with updateds on Fortson and Liggins.

New Book segment: "Vertical Leap" by Tennessee senior Dane Bradshaw, who just graduated from Tennessee and is a signature face associated with the start of the Bruce Pearl era at Tennessee. Foreword written by (who else) Bruce Pearl. Book currently sells for under $14.


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Monday Night Recruits

The Hodge Report at CSTV has new news. Has Indiana State found its next Larry Bird in the 2009 forward they just signed? A complete archive of the latest commits, decommits and transfers can be found on their website, all for free, including player profiles and such.

A Sea of (Kentucky) Blue has a story of interest to all the other bloggers out there. Big Brother (the NCAA) revoked the press credentials of a newspaper blogger, because apparently the NCAA considers blogging live from a game a violation of their copyrights. Memo to the NCAA: your whole organization is a violation of student-athletes rights!. Fix that first, before you start chasing bloggers :-)

College Hoops updates at NCAA Hoops Today, including 2007 NBA Draft coverage.

TV schedule of upcoming (repeats) of games featuring some 2007-2008 and beyond D1 prospects in this post below. Included is a multi-repeat of the Lake Oswego (Kevin Love) vs Mater Dei game on Fox College Sports.

Every 2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament game on DVD!


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Weekend Update II

My kingdom for a three point shooter! Especially with the three-point line going one foot back starting in 2008-2009, which is exactly when the Big 10's leading three point shooter will become eligible for Marshall. As you may recall Marshall has a multi-link connection with Billy the Kid (Donovan). Story at FoxSports by Goodman.

Meanwhile The Hodge Report at CSTV has a few more updates: Jon Stewart (the Dayton head coach) picks up a 2008 guard, and so does Steve Alford's New Mexico, while UT-Arlington gets a big man.

Dick Hoops Weiss blogs on the freshman camp in Chantilly, Va.

Lots of news on college basketball in general at NCAA Hoops Today

TV Guide! (all the games are repeats)

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All games on Fox College Sports (FCS). Check local listings for channel numbers.

Saturday, Jun 9, 8:00 PM, High-School Basketball, Wisconsin Div. 3 Final: Aquinas vs. St. Catherine's

Monday, Jun 11, 12:00 PM, Pine Castle Christian vs. The Rock, Florida Class 1A Tournament, Final. From Lakeland, Fla.

Thursday, Jun 14, 6:00 PM, Lake Oswego vs. Mater Dei

Friday, Jun 15, 10:30 AM, Lake Oswego vs. Mater Dei

Monday, Jun 18, 12:00 PM, Arlington Country Day vs. Port St. Joe, Florida Class 2A Tournament, Final. From Lakeland, Fla.

Tuesday, Jun 19, 6:00 PM, Lake Oswego vs. Mater Dei

All times pacific, add +3 for eastern and adjust otherwise for your time zones!

Weekend update

The Hodge Report at CSTV reports that two bench-player leave Memphis (hint hint: they didnt get a lot of PT last year), while a 2010 Ohio State "commit" changes his mind (now that's a shocker!). Meanwhile another Stan Heath player transfers out of Arkansas. Visit the Hodge Report for archives, player profiles and 100% free content. Also included is content by Van(ce) Coleman.

More on the Memphis transfers at CBS Sportsline.

The U of M Tigers blog here at blogspot talks about Memphis recruiting NYC players.

Every 2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament game on DVD!

Dick "Hoops" Weiss blogs that forward Mike Davis has been cleared by Big Brother (NCAA) to play for the Seton Hall Pirates of the New Jersey Carribean in 2007-2008.

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Hire the Fat Man, the recruits will come!

According to the latest Hodge Report on CSTV, Majerus got an in-state guard, and a JuCo goes to a mid-major school.

Goodman's blog reports that Xavier has picked up a space-eater transfer from Tulsa

Every 2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament game on DVD!

Rivals free but very detailed recruiting content: Top 30 recruiting classes of 2007-2008, Big 10 recruiting, and SEC recruiting. Also don't miss their Top 150 players ranking. Job well done!.


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Pitino loses a big one from 2008

The latest updates from The Hodge Report tell us that a 2008 center is decommitting from Rick Pitino, and three mid/low-majors sign new players.

On the TV front, Fox College Sports will retart re-airing the Florida high school championship games. A number of D1 prospects and commits will be featured. More details later on.

Transferology

Every single 2007 NCAA basketball tournament game is on DVD

According to the latest Hodge REport at CSTV, a player transfers out of Colorado, while Montana and Eastern Kentucky gain a transfer, and Manhattan gets a new prospect.

A Sea of Blue has a write-up on Josh Partner talking with Billy Clyde Gillispie. Pastner would add even more Texas recruiting connections to Kentucky. But this is also interesting to follow from the Kevin O'Neill perspective. O'Neill is not exactly the most easy going person according to multiple on-the-record insiders, and his hiring may be what is causing Pastner to look elsewhere.

More on the Jai Lucas situation at Florida at AssociatedContent.com


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Recruit me not!

Goodman's blog has a short update on Jai Lucas's situation
Latest news from CSTV's Hodge Report:

The Thad Matta Express continues to roll through the midwest! He gets his 2nd 2010 recruit!

One 2008 recruit reopens his commitment after Billy the Diva leaves (not really) for the Orlando Tragic. Details on this at Ncaa Hoops Today

Huggin's legacy of recruiting transfers continued at Kansas State without him

Butler continues to pick up 2008 commits. The success of last season helped a lot, Alford-less Iowa gets a 2008 guard. and one recruit goes from the cold Canadian weather to a tropical paradise. No Riley Wallace though.

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Friday commits

The tireless people at the Hodge Report on CSTV continue to report the latest in commitments and such, free of charge. Visit their website for all the details... Florida State clears the water using the force (double pun!), a Stan Heath playertransfers to mid-major-land, a CAA team gets James (not LeBron), a 2008 NC State decommit decommits from his high school as well (a pattern?), a USC transfer transfers out of his next destination (oh my!), and a few more mid-majors have some updates as well.

What impact will Donovan's decision to bolt out for the Orlando Tragic have on his current recruiting class as well as future recruits at Florida? Only time will tell... Perhaps that may partially explain why Patrick Patterson did not select Florida.

Thanks to John Clay's blog for adding this blog to their blogroll! A native Kentuckian, John Clay has been covering sports for the Lexington Herald-Leader for over 20 years.