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.