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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...

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...

No one has ever done this before. Six McDonald's All Americans and four top-rated players at their position in one class. The No. 1 recruiting classes four of the past five years. Unreal. John Calipari sits atop the mountain of college bask...

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...

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...

The big boys -- the country's elite players -- are headline stealers. With a devoted media following and constant updates from dozens of sites, the latest news on twins Andrew and Aaron Harrison, Andrew Wiggins or Jabari Parker is merely a click away...

The assembly line that is Kentucky basketball recruiting is humming along at a pace foreign to most college basketball programs. John Calipari had one commitment when the month began: power forward Derek Willis. Now he has five. And we're not j...

The Kentucky Wildcats are on the verge of a historic recruiting class. James Young, rated No. 5 overall in the ESPN 100, committed to Kentucky on Thursday, choosing the Wildcats over Michigan State, Syracuse and Kansas.

Labor Day weekend kicks off the college football season. Not to be lost in the shuffle is the unofficial tip-off of the college hoops visit season. The casual fan will have his or her eyes fixed on the field this weekend. The recruiting junkie will f...

DALLAS - The third session of the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League (EYBL) is in the books. Unfortunately, injuries depleted the talent pool at the top as standouts PF Aaron Gordon (San Jose, Calif./Archbishop Mitty), PG Tyus Jones (Apple Valley, Mi...

Marcus Lee (Antioch, Calif./Deer Valley) has the personality to match his talent. The guy's engaging and a helluva quote. He's come on strong and to many, it was out of left field. "I really don't know what happened," Lee said. "I just started pla...

Philip Nolan (Milwaukee, Wisc./Riverside) is about as strong a pickup for the Connecticut Huskies as they could get on May 3. The power forward with a face-up game recently visited St. John's and had USC, Marquette and Missouri bearing down on him. ...

There's what you see and what you hear and then there's what it all means. The EYBL and similar events, affords one the opportunity to interact with the prospects and get to know them. It's good old-fashioned communication, human interaction, talking...