New players for Baylor (hard-fought), and half a dozen mid-majors

New verbals according to the Hodge Report go to Baylor, NIU (Derrick Rose's teammate), Lamar (2), James Madison, Lipscomb, Sacret Heart and Dusquene (former Big East signee). Team losing players: Oregon State (transfer), Dusquene (one transfer, one denied). To find out who all these players are, visit the Hodge Report at CSTV

More on the Duquesne transfer at Goodman's blog, and by Dick Hoops Weiss of the New York Daily News. Apparently interpersonal relationships were a factor [allegedly].

And more on Duquesne, as they are featured in College Hoop Net's top 144 previews as team #77. This is becoming a Duquesne blog :-)

An update on Steven Lanersberg at the Zags Blog (no, not Gonzaga Zags, but Adam Zagoria Zags). Also from Zags updates on Kevin Jones, Seton Hall and Duquesne transfer, and more from the Five Star Camp. To summarize, visit and bookmark Zags blog :-)

Latest NCAA Hoops coverage at NCAA Hoops Todai

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Walk on all the way to San Diego?

New updates at CSTV's Hodge Report: Steve Fisher gains two walk-ons at San Diego State (one is a transfer), while Hartford and Campbell gain new players. On the transfer-out front, a South Texas JuCo collects a handful of D1 transfers.

How about some in-depth Kentucky recruiting coverage? at ASoB.

Dick Hoops Weiss has updates from the Five Star camp courtesy of Clark Francis of Hoop Scoop Online and Hoop Scoop On Radio. He also reports about the Geno vs Pat recruiting battle for Elena Della Donne. Weiss's blog is a must read!

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The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty just $5!

The book, with the self-explanatory title: The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty is now a bargain price paperback at just $5 at Amazon (free shipping with orders $25+). The book is written by Adrian Wojnarowski, 416 pages long. Speaking of bargain books, the top seller bargain basketball book at Amazon is The Carolina Way

New verbals for Baylor, Clemson, mid-majors. Losing players: Indiana, San Diego State

Lots of happenings at CSTV's Hodge Report since oue previous update. Lots of transfering took place, including a big Aussie from a Big 10 school, destination unknown. A couple of high profile players are downgrading (going below D1): a pine specialist from the Zags, and a touted wing at Missouri... A handful of recruits who presumably were not ready physically, mentally or academically are off ot either JuCo or prep school... Steve Fisher dismisses a player?... On the Recruits Receivable side of the ledger, new players wlll be appearing at Boise State, the Bonnies (2), Clemson, Sacto State, and Fresno State. The most profile commit though went to Baylor (top 50 of 2009).

More on some of the stories mentioned above at Goodman's blog. He also talks about a SoCal of 2008 dishing at Rucker Park (The Boost Elite 24 Classic in New York)

A round-up of news at A Sea of Blue!

Dick Hoops Weiss reports that NY high school basketball coach and co-host of the HoopScoop Radio/internet program Ron Neclario "The Teach" may become a reality tv star. Weiss also talks about Howard Garfinkel, famous for the Five Star Camp. Weiss's blog has become a great resource of recruiting!

A detailed update from the Boost Elite 24 from Dick Hoops Weiss as well!

Video highlights from the Boost Elite 28 at CBS Sportsline

An discussion on Ralph Sampson the IIIrd's visit to UK at A Sea of Blue

An update on Nigel Munson (Virginia Tech transfer) at the George Mason blog

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August 27-Sept 10 weekly tv guide

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

No recruiting-interest basketball games will be shown in this time period (eg no high-school basketball games)

Future Phenoms, a 30 minute show, narrated by Pat Summerall, (also goes by other names, such as Sports Stars of Tomorrow) airs on Fox College Sports, sat sept 1, thur sept 6, and Sat sept 8. Check with local listings for exact airtimes as the listings for this are a bit sketchy.

The College Basketball related TV schedule including game repeats, documentaries, basketball movies and more can be found at NCAA Hoops Today

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

Almost 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


Internet Radio

Every Sunday night from 10pm to midnight eastern time (7pm to 9pm pacific) HoopScoop on Radio airs at HoopScoopOnline powered by AllInBroadcasting.com. The show airs live But you can also listen to it later on and also listen to archived shows. This is free of charge, no subscription required.

The Big Ten Network goes live on August 30, 2007 with Big 10 college football action! Details at the BigTenNetwork website

New players for Florida, Arizona, Indiana, Alford - Tubby loses his first commit

Rivals updates their top 150 of 2008 as of 8/16/2007. I won't reveal their top players, but three of the top ten are uncommited. But I will reveal #150: Julius Mays going to NC State :)

New news at the Hodge Report on CSTV: Arizona gets a 2009 guard, Florida gets a top 100 2008 forward, and as expected Alabama gets a high profile top 100 team-mate of one of their recent commits. One in and one out for Tubby Smith: he adds a juco but loses his first commit. Other colleges gaining new players: Steve Alford at New Mexico (get used to that!), Rice, Rhode, Indiana, NW State (former Ball State commit), Georgia State, Tommy Amaker at Harvard and Fresno State. Visit the Hodge Report for all the details and free player profiles.

Goodman discusses the fishy, iffy yet legal practice of hiring AAU coaches but letting them stick around for the summer before joining their new job in college. Goodman also has the possible new (high school) destiation for Renaldo Sidney. He also talks about JaMychal Green's new destination

Goodman discusses Florida's new top 100 forward commitment

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Mike Davis at UAB gets one of the ...300

New news from the Hodge Report: Tubby Smith gets a 2008 JuCo for the TimberGophers, Kent State and Oakland add players, while a Clemson commit commits to two years of JuCo. Meanwhile Mike Davis at UAB gets one of the 300 - well not exactly, but that's the best I could come up with :) He is a 7-footer even and eligible to play right away. As you may call UAB's roster is gonna be loaded this season and it will be Mike Davis's first chance at redemption after the Indiana situation.

New for Vandy, Rhode, Missouri (again) and two mid-majors

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New news from the Hodge Report at CSTV. Vandy gets Festus (but not the one from Gunsmoke), Rhode gets one from Quebec, Missouri adds a mid-major transfer, Arkansas Little Rocks grabs two and one for watch-out-for-this-new-D1-school North Dakota State. Also reported is a transfer out of St Johns that we talked about yesterday.

More on Festus at Vandy by Goodman's blog at Fox Sports... Goodman also reports that Iman Shumpert (2008) plans to visit North Carolina and Georgia Tech in September.

Gary Parrish digs into the recruiting gray areas

College hoops in general at NCAA Hoops Todai

New players for Missouri, UNC-Wilmington, Utah and more

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From CSTV's Hodge report: New additions for Missour(a), UNC-Wilma, Ha'va'rd, Santa Clara without Dick Davey, North Texas and Utah without Majerus.

On the transfer front, the Johnies lose a forward to a transfer according to Goodman's blog. Also covered by Zags blog (not Gonzaga Zags)

Dick Hoops Weiss talks about Sean Mosley committing to Maryland

At the Zags Blog (not Gonzaga Zags) (and also the Ballers All Star report newsletter): Gonzo has a shot at Tyreke Evans. Gonzo being Seton Hall head coach and CSTV analyst Bobby Gonzalez, formerly of Manhattan (college).

August 20-31 weekly tv guide

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Tue Aug 21, 6pm, unknown game, Fox College Sports (maybe???)

Thur Aug 23, 830am, WBCA All-Star Game: Division 1 (I do not know what game this is), Fox College Sports

Future Phenoms, a 30 minute show, narrated by Pat Summerall, (also goes by other names, such as Sports Stars of Tomorrow) airs on Fox College Sports, ,mon aug 20, tue aug 21, thur aug 30, and sat sept 1.. Check with local listings for exact airtimes as the listings for this are a bit sketchy.

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

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

Almost 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


Internet Radio

Every Sunday night from 10pm to midnight eastern time (7pm to 9pm pacific) HoopScoop on Radio airs at HoopScoopOnline powered by AllInBroadcasting.com. The show airs live But you can also listen to it later on and also listen to archived shows. This is free of charge, no subscription required.

Weekend update with new news!

The CSTV Hodge Report delivers new news!. We have two big signings: Texas A&M (without Billy Gillispe) gets a top 100 2008 guard, while Cal's big signing is with regards to height. And he will be eligible to play right away. Ben Braun leveraged the area's population diversity to get this tall recruit. He is 7'3"! Check the Hodge Report to find out who. Detailed player profile.

More from the Hodge Report: Martina asked and got his release from a university that recently made a coaching change (Martina is a dude), Oregon State has a surprising transfer and what a coincidence! another player is transferring in! Don't you just love these coincidences? :) Staying in the pacific northwest, Eastern Washington gets a JuCo.

Transfer day at the Hodge Report

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Transfer day at the Hodge Report as they inform us of a number of transfers: A high profile Minnesota big man leaves before the Tubby Smith era officially begins on the court. Also transfering out from: West Virginia, Nebraska, Bob Knight Text (not everyone can bear with Knight on a daily basis), and Ball State. The last one is a release from the letter of intent, so this Texan forward is now back in the market!... Perhaps the excitment over the new Anaheim Classic hosted by the Big West helped Long Beach State get a new commit. Also Matt Gottfried used his "connections" to get a top 100 guard from 2008!

Following this get by Alabama, Goodman projects that JaMychal Green will follow suit and signs with the Tide

Gary Parrish also chimes in on Sonny Vaccaro's new HBO movie with James Gandolfini. Original story at Variety.com

College Hoops coverage at NCAA Hoops Today. There you will find the Gigantic 2007-2008 preview Links

Cashmere is in at Cincinatti (no, this is not a Fashion blog!)

Cashmere is in at Cincinatti! No, this is not a Fashion Blog! Explanation at the Hodge Report. Also Bruce Weber gets lucky in recruiting as he adds a late 2007 forward. New players for Louisiana Tech (coached by former Cal assistant) and UT-San Antone.

James Gandolfini to play the Godfather of Summer Hoops on HBO? The Ballers All Star Report latest newsletter reports on a Variety report saying just that! The current name for the film is "ABCD Camp". Lots of other goodies at the Ballers All Star Report, including webcasts of summer hoops action, as well DVDs, and more news and features!

Tracy Smith is cleared by the NCAA for 2007-2008 according to Goodman's blog. He also has a couple of updates from the New England Elite 75.

More updates from Dick Hoops Weiss with updates from the upcoming Boost Mobile Elite 24 game at Rucker Park. Meanwhile St Johns is trying to figure out who to offer their last scholarship. More at his blog.

Dick Hoops Weiss has one suggestion for an assistant at Seton Hall. Gonzo has a good chance at making it big if he can manage to improve the team which is not an easy thing in the super-sized Big East. He is already building up his media portfolio with appearances at CSTV and NBA-TV... Hoops also talks about a rising star from St Anthony's, Tyshawn Taylor. Weiss lists his long lists of national offers.

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New players for Maryland, Washington, Arkansas, Turnaround Tom and more

Forget Bassie. Here comes Lance! (thankfully not the Backstreet Out of Sync Lance), but Lance Stephenson, the next big thing out of New York. Dick Hoops Weiss, a great source for recruiting info, has the final six in the hunt for his commitment. The Final Six include the usual suspects: Pitino, Calipari, Ole Roy, Huggins mountaineer-Bear, but also JT3 and Kelvin "it took an extra 500 calls to convince them to play slugfest on my team" Sampson.

New news at the Hodge Repor(t) at CSTV: The Return of the Gary continues with a top 100 guard. Which is exactly what Romar got as well (not the same player obviously). New Mexico State (now without Reggie Theus) has picked up a former OKi State commit. Meanwhile Arkansas gets a player from the former-USSR ...South. Two new players for corrosive Matt Doherty at SMU, and one each for former UCLA assistant Kerry Keating at Santa Clara (yes the university that pushed out Dick Davey after 30 years of service), and Central Meeeeecheeeeegan. More commits at the Hodge Repor(t) at CSTV: Houston, NW State, Hawai'iii, Army and Illinois Chicago. Visit their website for free details and free player profiles.

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Not too late for new 2007 signees!

The latest Hodge Repor(t) at CSTV has news of two late signees for Purdue and Kansas State, eligible to play in 2007-2008. The Purdue signee is a JuCo that was set for Utah before their coaching change. Read the Hodge Report for details. Illinois State and Tennessee State added new players, while Arkansas Little Rock and Purdue lose a player each. Funny how a player decides to go elsewhere and at the same time a new commitment comes in. Shame on you Matt Painter of Purdue!. But of course the majority of basketball coaches would do the same thing, so it's not that I am picking on Matt Painter, it's just that he is the last one to do this.

Goodman has an update from the New England Elite 75

Is Billy Gillispie trying to get Scotty Hopson and Bud Mackey to change their commitments to Kentucky? More on this from John Clay

Jerry Meyer of Rivals opens his mailbag and answers questions about Brandon Jennings, UCLA, Ralph Sampson III, Tyreke Evans (down to two schools allegedly), and Abdul Gaddy.

Links to Rivals rankings of the classes of 2008, 2009 and 2010 at Yahoo Sports

A versatile budget laptop?

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The AASSA offense got a new piece!

New news from the Hodge Report at CSTV:. The original AASAA (Vance Walbert at Pepperdine) got a new guard from the state of Oregon, beating Cal and Utah along the way. New players for Drake and William & Mary as well.

College hoops coverage at NCAA Hoops Today

Hoops Coach talks about phenoms, adversity, laser-like focus and a lot more.

And some positive and inspirational news at Good News in Sports, including Steve Blake's post-Maryland career difficulties, Division 2 coaches raising money for good causes, and a lot more

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August 13-20 weekly tv guide

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

Mon Aug 13, 5pm, 11pm, maybe a game?, Fox College Sports

Tue Aug 14, 6pm, maybe a game?, Fox College Sports

Wedn Aug 15, 6am, Central Catholic at Oostburg, Fox College Sports

Tue Aug 21, 6pm, unknown game, Fox College Sports

Future Phenoms, a 30 minute show, narrated by Pat Summerall, (also goes by other names, such as Sports Stars of Tomorrow) airs on Fox College Sports, thur aug 16, and sun aug 19, tue aug 21, thur aug 23, and sat aug 25. Check with local listings for exact airtimes.

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

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

Almost 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


Internet Radio

Every Sunday night from 10pm to midnight eastern time (7pm to 9pm pacific) HoopScoop on Radio airs at HoopScoopOnline powered by AllInBroadcasting.com. The show airs live But you can also listen to it later on and also listen to archived shows. This is free of charge, no subscription required.

Weekend update from the Hodge Report at CSTV

New news from CSTV's Hodge Report!. New players added to New Mexico (big center (in size), coached by Steve Alford), Purdue, Drake, Indiana State (is he the next Larry Bird?), San Francisco, UC Santa Barbara, Western Kentucky, UMKC, UT Texas Arlington. Schools losing players to transfer or D2/D3/NAIA/JuCo: Jacksonville State (five players leaving!), West Virginia (now with Bob Huggins), Eastern Washington (two), Illinois Chicago.

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Latest college hoops updates at NCAA Hoops Today

A couple of recruiting tidbits from Goodman's blog on JaMychael Green (down to two teams) and Iman (not the supermodel) Shumpert down to three teams. Read on to find out who.

Gary Parrish tackles text messaging and the NCAA and recruiting

Quick note: Outside the Lines deals with Text Messaging and recruiting today!

Quick note: Outside the Lines deals with Text Messaging and recruiting today! More details at NCAA Hoops Today. Jim Boeheim and Jim Larranaga will be appearing. Boeheim is battling John Calipari for the most face time on TV :)

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Aaron Ellis finds a new home and more

College basketball coverage at NCAA Hoops Today

Lots of new news at the Hodge Report since my previous post!

One man's loss is another man's gain: Aaron Ellis, denied admission to Dave Odom's South Carolina finds a new home in a high profile mid-major conference

Gained: Utah (6-11 forward), Charlotte, BYU, UC Irvine (two) and Appalachian State (which created some stir last season)

Lost: Michigan (bench player transfers out)

Lots of recruiting tidbits by Dick Hoops Weiss at the New York Daily News. He makes an astute observation that Huggins picked up one of the Gauchos, a NYC metro AAU team noted for the toughness of its guards. He also talks about the AAU nationals in Orlando.

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BCS commitment day

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The latest news from the Hodge Report at CSTV have commitments for Missouri, Baylor (Australian connection), and Bob Huggins (yes, he is at West Virginia now) getting a kid from (the) Bronx.

Gary Parrish talks to Dave Telep (offline) and discusses the recent trend of decommitments. A follow up on the story here. In an attempt to be funny (I guess) Gary Parrish blames Larry King. Comments like this make may make fans want Greg Doyell back :) Meanwhile Dave Telep blames divorces! Stick to basketball comments, both of you! :-) Do read the reader comments, they point out a lot of the silliness. Let's not forget coaches bolt left and right, and they get paid a lot of money, unlike the student-athletes.

Top 200 of the Class of 2008 at CSTV

After four "recruiting losses" by Billy Gillispie, John Clay wonders whether he lost his Mo(mentum). One player committed elsewhere, while three more have shortened their lists and removed UK from them. Zeller for example is now down to the three Indiana schools and Ole Roy (who got some heat for not singing up enough players), while the Russian dunker Oleg Czyz is down to PitinoVille, Donovan Diva and Coach Dracula K (what do these three have in common? RINGS!)... Meanwhile A Sea of Blue has a different take on this (and a LOTR reference!)

August 6-15 weekly tv guide

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

Tue Aug 14, 6pm, unknown game, Fox College Sports

Future Phenoms, a 30 minute show, narrated by Pat Summerall, (also goes by other names, such as Sports Stars of Tomorrow) airs on Fox College Sports, tue aug 7, thur aug 9, sat aug 11, thur aug 16, and sat aug 18. Check with local listings for exact airtimes.

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

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

Almost 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


Internet Radio

Every Sunday night from 10pm to midnight eastern time (7pm to 9pm pacific) HoopScoop on Radio airs at HoopScoopOnline powered by AllInBroadcasting.com. The show airs live But you can also listen to it later on and also listen to archived shows. This is free of charge, no subscription required.

All you can recruit Fridays (and Duke transfer predictions)

Thanks KentuckyInk/UK Insiders for discussing my Top 10 of 2007. The discussion thread is here (registration required, but it is free). In that thread I make a new bold prediction regarding Duke transfers: I am predicting that both Taylor King and Nolan Smith will transfer out of Duke by the end of their sophomore seasons. King will return to the west coast and Smith will probably transfer to PitinoVille. Now this may sound like a silly prediction, but I did predict in December 2005 that Jamal Boykin would transfer out of Duke by July 2007. Boykin transfered out of Duke during the Fall 2006 semester and is eligible to play at Cal-420 in Spring 2008.

New news from CSTV's Hodge report: A guard from the Bronx stays in the Big East (but not in the NY/NJ metro), Purdue beats mid-majors for a guard, while Akron and Eastern Michigan add a player each.

Kentucky tradition and recruiting at A Sea of Blue

Goodman reports that a Bostonian forward will be visiting New Mexico State soon. He also suggests that the NCAA should give (read: force) the coaches to take time of during the summer. He also has the final two choices for Aaron Ellis, the guard who was not admitted at South Carolina (another lost recruit for Dave Odom).

Catch up with the latest on college basketball at NCAA Hoops Today

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The Gary Strikes Back! (updated)

The latest updates from CSTV's Hodge Report: Gary Williams strikes back with a top 20 2008 forward out of Mount Zion. Jon Stewart gets a Top 100 guard for his Daily Show at Dayton, and the Spiders go to Oz for a big man. To find out more details, please visit the Hodge Report at CSTV.

A Sea of Blue has a recruiting update mentioning dunking Oleg Czyz. A Sea of Blue points out that UK has 14 candidates for three slots, so losing two of them yesterday was not really an issue.

Dick Hoops Weiss is a great resource for daily recruiting updates. More updates from yesterday. He reminds us that the text messaging ban went into effect yesterday. Blackberry and the other cellphone providers are crying!

The Ballers All Star report is loaded with features, including a story by Rob Harrington of USA Today, updates from the Eastern Invitational and the Nike Global Challenge and information on how to watch free webcasts of summer ball action, live or pre-recorded! You can also sign up for their email updates! Some of the players discussed: Brandon Jennings, Brandon Romain, Devon Curry, 7-footer Temidayo Adebayo, Chris Gaston, Allan Chaney, and more. They also have links to lots of other stories and free webcasts!

More general College basketball news at NCAA Hoops Today, including an on-going listings of links with 2007-2008 season previews

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Lots of updates from Dick Hoops Weiss

The Hodge Report at CSTV reminds us that the early signing period for the 2008 class is one week long starting Nov 14, 2007, and the late singing period is April 16 through May 21, 2008. They also inform us that McNeese State got a new player.

Dick Scoop Weiss has the scoop: former Rutgers commit Olu Ashaolu will resurface at Louisiana Tech. Hoops also looks at Lance Goulbourne's success in the summer circuit. More from Dick Hoops Weiss as he reports on why Renaldo Sidney has been struggling. Dick gives us his three candidates for #1 player of the 2009 class. Dick also has the scoop on the February 2008 three day blockbuster Prime Time Shootout at Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, New Jersey. A complete list of the games scheduled including tip off times are provided by Dick Hoops courtesy of Jay Gomes of New Jersey Hoops. Some of the players expected to appear include Tyreke Evans, Greg Monroe, Lance Stephenson and a lot more.

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