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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...

Dave Telep goes inside the updated basketball recruiting rankings to give a primer on the ESPN 100, ESPN 60 and ESPN 25.

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This week's Friday notebook includes a look at LSU signee Jarrell Martin's dominant senior season, how LSU may have opened a pipeline to Australia, the latest word on best-available point guard Rysheed Jordan and a look back at re-ranking the top fiv...

As talent evaluators, we have our biases. Over the course of my 16 years in basketball recruiting, I've developed a huge bias toward rebounders. I once learned a difficult lesson. In 2001, Emeka Okafor led the city of Houston with an average of 1...

After watching a week of college basketball, it struck me how few teams have two legitimate big men worth playing together. The game has evolved so much that we're seeing a different style of play. The trend is to trade bigs for guards, and it's hard...

Jarrell Martin, No. 14 prospect overall in Class of 2013, commits to LSU.

We didn't see this one coming. ESPN 100 power forward Jarrell Martin (Baton Rouge, La./Madison Prep), thought to be a spring signee, is set to make his college decision. According to Jeff Jones, the head coach at Madison Prep, Martin will announc...

Jarrell Martin (Baton Rouge, La./Madison Prep) is a top 20 player, actually he's No. 12 in the ESPN 100. Most guys that high profile are big news generators. Martin isn't like most guys. The 6-foot-7 power forward, who happens to be one of the bes...

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- After 10 years, the Pangos All-American Camp carved out a niche for itself on the June calendars of high-level players. The strength of the camp wasn't the future lottery picks, as it has boasted in the past, but the overall bre...