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This week's Friday notebook includes a look at Roy Williams visiting a top-10 junior in Minnesota, Kentucky visiting No. 1 prospect Andrew Wiggins, UNLV's Baltimore pipeline and much more basketball recruiting news. Strike with the guard down ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- National No. 14 Paul VI (Va.) may or may not have taken its opponent, Lake Wales (Fla.), lightly on Wednesday at the City of Palms Classic. It sure didn't seem like the team that beat nationally ranked Oak Hill (Va.) earlier t...

WINSTON SALEM, N.C. -- It was great, not good, to be back in a high school gym, watching high school teams scrimmage. Only days removed from the start of hoop practices, the second Winston Salem Prep Jamboree brought together eight teams littered wit...

Roll out the red carpet, fire up the motorcycle and prepare the indoor fireworks. It's Midnight Madness, baby. This is the weekend where the coach lets his hair down and prospective recruits might get to see his lighter side. It's a weekend where ext...

Thursday was a big night for Washington football, thanks to the Huskies' upset of Stanford. This weekend could be equally big for UW on the hardwood if things go well with some high-profile on-campus visits. Lorenzo Romar has been waiting a long t...

What has gone on at Rhode Island since Thursday isn't normal. There's busy, and then there's busy. Last Wednesday, the Brothers Hurley traveled to Virginia to see 2013 center Ifeanyi Onyekaba (Roanoke, Va./Episcopal). Nobody, not Dan Hurley, not B...

Shaka Smart's Virginia Commonwealth Rams wasted no time in moving into their new digs in the Atlantic 10. There's no grace period, no time to prepare a roster for the new league. The Rams decided to debut "Havoc" in the A-10 this season. With the CAA...

There's a recruitment that begs to watch closely this year. Jordan Matthews (Santa Monica, Calif./Santa Monica) is the son of UCLA assistant coach Phil Matthews. If anyone knows the ins and outs of recruiting, it's Matthews and he's heard enough from...

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...

The past few days, conspiracy theorists have picked apart the NCAA tournament bracket. Why are Duke and Kentucky in the same bracket 20 years after "The Shot." Roy Williams vs. Bill Self? In St. Louis? And the list goes on. Allow me to pick apart ...

This weekend at the National HS Hoops Festival, I got a chance to see an interesting matchup between SFs Arnaud Moto (Alexandria, Va./Episcopal) and Jordan Burgess(Richmond, Va./Benedictine) and I came away very impressed with how Burgess did against...

Next week, Mitch McGary (Chesterton, Ind./Brewster) will decide between Michigan, Duke and Florida. He officially visited each school except for Florida. "I think the kid's getting kind of burnt out with it," one college assistant said. "I think the ...

Here is a look at where 48 Division I head coaches will be to start the contact period.

Omar Calhoun, McKenzie Moore, Chris McCullough highlight the West Virginia Jam Fest, writes Dave Telep.

Shaka Smart took the collection of talent he inherited and crafted the VCU Rams in his likeness through recruiting, writes Dave Telep.