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With Wednesday's release of our final ESPN 100 for the Class of 2013, the player rankings for the basketball recruits in the current senior class can finally be etched in stone. Although every rankings update throughout the year is full of diffic...

It's a busy time in basketball recruiting, with the major postseason events bringing a close to the 2012-13 high school season, the upcoming spring signing period (April 17-May 15) finishing out Class of 2013 recruiting and the start of the AAU seaso...

CHICAGO -- It was a busy week of practices, college commitments and game action at the McDonald's All American Game, culminating in No. 4 recruit Aaron Gordon earning MVP honors in Wednesday's main event, one day after he made headlines by pledging t...

Arizona struck again Tuesday with a potential frontcourt star when forward Aaron Gordon committed to play for Sean Miller over Kentucky, Washington and Oregon.

CHICAGO -- Tuesday at the McDonald's All American Game was a big day. Not only was it the final full practice before Wednesday night's game (ESPN & WatchESPN, 9:30 p.m. ET), but it was also media day, where No. 4 overall recruit Aaron Gordon made his...

CHICAGO -- The first official day of practices for the 2013 McDonald's All American Game (Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. ET on ESPN & WatchESPN) were held Monday morning, and RecruitingNation's Dave Telep was on hand to give you an insider's look at what went ...

New Mexico coach Steve Alford was hired to take over the reins at UCLA on Saturday. Though a native of Indiana and a former head coach at Iowa, the Midwestern transplant has developed recruiting ties in California. In fact, Alford is oddly connec...

The basketball world is flush with comparisons these days. Is Michael Jordan the greatest? Where is LeBron James in the conversation? Comparing players from different eras is tough. For this week's Top 10 I set out to compare and rank frontcourt pros...

Talent evaluation is an inexact science. However, over the last 15 years, because of advances in technology and the ability to see prospects more, be it live on TV or through the Internet, we now know more about players on every level. However, what ...

This week's Friday notebook includes a continuation of the Aaron Gordon/Blake Griffin comparison, how Kentucky's recruiting class made history again, which underclassmen visited Duke and Michigan State and much more recruiting news. More Gordon v...

There's no arguing the quality of this year's Jordan Brand Classic rosters, which were announced on Tuesday. The game is stocked with 22 players, and that means some of the fat has been trimmed off the event. Typically, this event constructs its ...

After a busy week of high school hoops that included last weekend's loaded Spalding Hoophall Classic, this week's Friday notebook includes a comparison of Aaron Gordon to Blake Griffin in high school, why top-10 junior Justise Winslow is wired correc...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- There's something about the annual Spalding Hoophall Classic. It's like the best of the best save themselves up for that final Monday of action. While there wasn't a breakout off-the-radar guy at this year's event, the stars...

Over the course of seven days in recruiting, you see, hear and get texted a lot of things. Some of the info turns into stories. Some of it is not to be repeated. And some gets filed away in the notebook. As a new weekly feature, we'll be cleaning ...

The meat of the hoops season has yet to begin and already some of the elite high school players are already on the shelf. This week, power forward Julius Randle (Dallas/Prestonwood) announced he'd miss up to three months after fracturing his right fo...

The news came over at 11:59 p.m. ET Thursday night. ESPN 100 power forward Aaron Gordon (San Jose, Calif./Archbishop Mitty), the No. 7 overall recruit in the Class of 2013, trimmed his list to a trio of programs, including two from the Pac-12. "Aa...