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 :)

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

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.

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

BCS commitment day

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

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

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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

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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

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

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

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

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.

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!