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Missed layups are a plague for which few administer the sure-fire cure: practice.

Linnae Harper stands only 5-feet-6, but the guard from Chicago has that "It" factor that makes her the No. 5 prospect in the ESPN HoopGurlz 2013 player rankings.

Breanna Stewart, Alexis Jones, Morgan Tuck, Diamond DeShields, Jordan Adams and Bianca Cuevas are preseason candidates for the 2012 HoopGurlz player of the year.

No. 21 Katie Collier commits to Washington and gives the program the inside player it needs in the 2012 class.

Brianna Butler is ranked No. 13 in the ESPNU HoopGurlz 100 and gives Syracuse a big boost in recruiting.

The quartet of Mercedes Russell, Kailee Johnson, Jordan Reynolds and Jaime Nared has given coaches and scouts around the country a reason to talk about Oregon basketball.

Moriah Jefferson's journey to basketball superstardom has been ripe with road blocks, yet her impact seems to be uninhibited.

Success in the Big Dance and prime seeding can be minimized back to recruiting, plain and simple.

With much talent on display, players at the FIBA Americas U18 Championships showed hoops with an international flair.

Leaving Moriah Jefferson off the USA Basketball roster once again raised questions about the national teams' selection process.

The unexpected closing of New York's St. Michael Academy left its women's basketball program in a lurch. Thanks to the quick work of coach Robert "Apache" Paschall, his players have a new home at Nazareth.

Marques Jackson, the head of the DFW Elite girls' basketball club program, died on Sunday morning after suffering a heart attack.

Of the four women's basketball finalists -- Baylor, Connecticut, Oklahoma and Stanford -- 31 players were ranked by ESPN HoopGurlz among the top 100 prospects in their respective classes.

Thaddesia Southall, a 6-foot-4 forward with a condor-sized wingspan, is the second prospect from the ESPN HoopGurlz Hundred, at No. 99, to commit to USC.

Kelsey Bone going to Texas A&M is just one of Glenn Nelson's nine fearless predictions for 2009.

Yes, it's way to early to say who will have the top recruiting class of the year, but it sure if fun to try to figure it out. Glenn Nelson offers his take on how it will all shake out.