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Adam Finkelstein sheds light on five underachieving teams or non-traditional powers that could be transformed by their incoming class.

Story | Conversation | May 01, 2013

History tells us that lurking somewhere at the bottom end of a top-100 prospects list or possibly even outside the list entirely are future college basketball stars. Current college standouts like Trey Burke, Doug McDermott and Seth Curry were all ei...

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...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The City of Palms Classic is the best pre-Christmas high school basketball event in the country. And just imagine if top-10 senior Julius Randle (Dallas/Prestonwood Christian) hadn't been injured and elite junior Joel Berry (Orlan...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Some final news and notes from the City of Palms Classic before heading home on Friday. I'll have a final recap over the weekend with what I learned at this year's event and Paul Biancardi will continue to recap the best performan...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- So BYU didn't get Jabari Parker after he pledged to Duke Thursday. We all knew it was going to be an uphill battle for the Cougars. Dave Rose deemed it to be a fight worth undertaking and who could blame him? In a lot of insta...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Our list of top centers in the 2013 class is littered with guys who "coulda, shoulda, might be." Fact is, there's not a lock McDonald's All-American center. Guys will have opportunities to punch their ticket to the game, but t...

It wouldn't be Christmas without a pre-Santa serving of the City of Palms Classic. For 16 years I've packed short-sleeve shirts, hopped on a plane and settled into my seats at the friendly confines of Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers, Fla. ...

Illinois' best high school basketball teams have often had to travel outside of the state to face the nation's best. On Saturday, the country's elite will come to Chicago as five of the nation's top squads will face five of Illinois' top ones in t...

Though the West Coast Conference's top three teams -- Gonzaga, Saint Mary's and BYU -- have accrued a lot of talent in the 2012 and '13 classes, LMU easily has the most well-rounded group.

Story | Conversation | October 23, 2012

BYU head coach Dave Rose landed a verbal commitment from power forward Luke Worthington (Mequon, Wisc./Homestead) on Monday, The Deseret News is reporting. The 6-foot-8 Worthington chose the Cougars over offers from Davidson, Penn and Princeton. H...

Jabari Parker (Chicago/Simeon), the top-ranked senior in the nation, was on BYU's campus Thursday meeting with head coach Dave Rose, ESPN.com has learned. The 6-foot-8 Parker is a practicing Mormon who has been considering the Cougars along with D...

1. BYU is still a serious contender for the No. 1 player in the country in Jabari Parker. How so? Parker made an unofficial visit to Provo on Thursday and met with coach Dave Rose, according to multiple sources. Parker, who is Mormon, has made multip...

There is a unique window on the recruiting trail for the BYU Cougars. Can coach Dave Rose and his staff capitalize on the national level talent that the exists in the Mormon community over the next two classes? Five very good players from two cla...

This summer, ESPNHS will sit down with some of the nation's elite players to break down their game, talk about the inevitable comparisons to college and pro players and get their take on who they pattern their game after. Player: Nick Emery Schoo...

There's no better time than the present to learn about prospects. In this business, if you're not in information-gathering mode and learning on a daily basis, you're not pulling your weight (my suitcase goes from trunk to the laundry room and back in...