Daily Recruits - Thursday

Mike DeCourcy has another recruiting dish, debating the #1 recruit of 2007 (OJ Mayo? Eric Gordon? Michael Beasly? Kevin Love?). He also highlights rising and falling prospects, Bob Huggins smiling, and Tubby Smith frustrating Kentucky fans by his lackluster recruiting style.

Arizona State adds a 2007 forward from Artesia. On a totally unrelated story the basketball coach of Artesia is now Herb Sendek's assistant :-)

CSTV Recruiting also reports of commitments by Marquette, Colorado and BYU

Pure speculation: Aleks Maric to Baylor? His Australian teammate Aaron Bruce plays at Baylor. Unless Maric does not want to sit out for a year and instead decides to pursue a pro career in Europe.

Daily Recruits

Rivals unveils their new Top150 for 2007 and they (fashionably I might add) have a new #1. OJ Mayo appears to no longer be the trendy #1 among the recruiting experts. Rivals new #1 is former Charlotte-verbal, and now Huggie's recruit, Michael Beasley. Other movers include Eric Gordon, Kyle Singler (I have this bad feeling he is going to commit to Puke), DeAndre Jordan. Five new comers enter their Top150, the last one being a Flintstone going to desert. For all the details, visit rivals.com and/or their YahooSports content.

InsideHoops has multiple reports of Eric Gordon visiting the campus of Indiana. His father said it was not a "visit". Perhaps he went there for the coffee?

Tyrone Nash breaks Tubby's heart as he decides to attend prep school instead of joining Big Blue this season. Kentucky badly needs talent!

Mike Cronin is hard at work as he gets a 6-3 SG in Larry Davis of TX.

New transfer: Alecs Maric formerly of Collier/Nebraska. (aka free agent)

CSTV Recruiting among others report that Kelvin Sampson got his first commitment as the Indiana head coach. And he didn't have to flip his cellphone open ;-) Brandon McGee is a forward from the state of Illinois. Other teams picking up recent commitments: Xavier, Alabama, Cincy, BC, VaTech, N.Iowa, Washington State. Read all about it at CSTV Recruiting

One recent transfer may have to rethink his situation, but may have ran out of options anyway. Former Colorado State forward Dale Vanwright went to Colorado but then went to UTEP. So far so good, but just today Doc Sandler bolted for Nebraska. So what will Dale do?

Big East Recruiting (2007-08)

The BigEastBasketballBlog takes a look at the 2007-08 rosters of all 16 Big East teams. This is a valueable resource for those following the recruiting process by looking at the number of scholarships and team needs (and projecting who will bolt for the NBA).

New material at HoopScoopOnline

Fans of free stuff will be delighted to find out that Clark Francis (CF) of HoopScoopOnline and the weekly Hoop Scoop Radio/Internet show has increased the number of free stuff posted on his website.

He provides the Top 10 classes of 2007 thru 2011, as well as the Top 10 players at each of the big shoe company camps of this summer (Nike All-Am, Rbk ABCD, Adidas Superstar). One thing that Clark Francis deserves extra credit for is separating the Five-Year-Players from the Four-Year-Players in his high-school rankings. Five-Year-Players can usually be found in prep schools that specialize in post-graduate players.

And yes, Clark Francis joins other experts in ranking Kevin Love ahead of OJ Mayo. (Didn't they pick some tall guy ahead of Michael Jordan in the NBA Draft a few years ago?)

On top of that, Clark Francis also offers the Top 15 class ranking of 2007 for free. He uses his own formula to calculate the class rankings by assigning weights to each player's individual ranking.

Syracuse leads the way with five new recruits (the miracle run in the Big East tourney and Boeheim's dramatic support of G-Mac surely helped!). Gonzaga is at #15 (Thanks Ammo!). Transfers are not counted in the rankings, but JC players are.

The biggest surprise may be Purdue at #3. Matt Painter has been hard at work. But can he hold on to these recruits after Purdue has another miserable season?

On top of that, CF also offers one day per week's worth of content for free.

PS> There is a small typo under Duke where "Taylor King" is printed as "Taylor Smith".

Latest recruiting news from CSTV

CSTV's latest recruiting updates include the Cal Bears beating Herb Sendek for a 2007 forward, a former Colorado State player find a new home in Texas, media-savvy Seth Greenberg gets two 2008 verbals, GW gets one of Kevin Love's teammates (coast2coast), and Fresno State gets a former Alabama forward.

Latest news from CSTV/FansOnly

In today's edition, Gonzaga picks up a 2008 verbal from a forward in Oregon (Thanks Ammo, Sincerely Mark Few), Marquette beats Alabama, an Oak Hill player picks FSU, while Miami gets Durham, and Gonzo gets a big man. Read it all about it at http://interact.cstv.com/recruiting/

DeCourcy's Recruiting Dish

TSN's Mike DeCourcy has a new *Dish column on the summer recruiting scene in Vegas.. His story talks about Kevin Love and fast food, Chris Bosh's younger twin, the next Deron Williams (sort of), the evil empire at Duke, and Roy's recruiting habbits (only one scholarship to give, but the NBA draft could create as many as four additional roster openings - especially if they win it all).