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Dave Telep's Starting 5: No. 13 junior Theo Pinson's impending commitment, the rise of junior center Myles Turner and the urgency for coaches to land a 2014 point guard.

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ESPN 60 small forward Trevon Bluiett (Indianapolis/Park Tudor) is playing with a ton of confidence on the travel team circuit. It makes sense that he would be out there getting things done in the spring because he said playing AAU and travel ball is ...

Spend enough time on the high school basketball circuit and you'll find there are certain players you gravitate toward because you know exactly what you're getting when you go watch them. ESPN 60 forward Kevon Looney (Milwaukee/Hamilton) is one of th...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Many times at weekend travel team events, people approach me and offer their own insight into my job. Look, it's a good gig -- don't get me wrong. But scouts don't look at it through the lens of one big basketball fiesta. This is ...

We're smack in the middle of the spring travel team evaluation period. While the weekend warriors pack up and head to the hot spots for travel team events, college coaches hop on private planes to see the elite players. Wednesday was the final d...

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...

Canada has been good to the United States in the past decade when it comes to college basketball talent -- from Avery Bradley to Tristan Thompson and Myck Kabongo -- but the best is yet to reach the college level. Andrew Wiggins (Toronto, Ontario/Hun...

LAS VEGAS -- These days, wherever Julius Randle (Dallas/Prestonwood Academy) goes, he draws a crowd. On Sunday, after the first session at the LeBron James Skills Academy, we sat down and talked ball, USA Basketball and what his college decision is r...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The July period is the truth serum of recruiting. Everybody starts out with aggressive lists, plays in front of coaches and then unbeknownst to them, becomes a first-, second- or third-tier target of their favorite schools. Som...

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...

On paper, tonight's ACC/Big Ten Challenge game between No. 5 UNC and No. 9 Wisconsin is a game that the ACC needs to win in order to exit the challenge with a measure of pride. However, it's not unreasonable to think coach Roy Williams and coach ...