The toughest high school basketball conference in the country, the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference, has caused the most movement in this week’s Hoopniks Terrific 30, presented by Krossover. The powerful grouping of schools, located in and around the nation’s capital, composes three of the teams ranked this week, in current league leader Paul VI (VA), [...]
January 25, 2012
Guard Chase Brogna becomes Rice’s second Ambassador pledge
Rice has their second recruit for the 2012 class, and the Owls now have two players that ran with the Texas D-1 Ambassadors (Houston) team locked up for next year. 6′-0″ guard Chase Brogna has joined 6′-9″ center Aly Mohamed as a pledge to the Owls, according to D1Nation.com. Brogna plays with Stanford signee Christian [...]
January 24, 2012
Explosive 2013 guard Chris Thomas makes surprising move, enrolls at Chipola JC
The recruitment of 6′-5″ guard Chris Thomas, a native of Denver, Colorado, is over before it really even started. In perhaps an unprecedented move in the always unpredictable world of college basketball recruiting, Thomas, who was expected to have a year of high school remaining after this year, enrolled at Chipola JC in Florida at the start [...]
January 23, 2012
Hoopniks Terrific 30, presented by Krossover (1-23-12)
Several key match-ups took place last week, and this week’s rankings reflect the results of those games. Most notably, Findlay Prep (NV) moves from the No. 3 slot in the poll and leapfrogs St. Anthony (NJ) to move into No. 2, after a huge victory in the Big City Showdown against Las Vegas rival Bishop [...]
January 22, 2012
Weekly Recruiting Beat (1-22-12) – Majors await word from Amile Jefferson
Only a smattering of top-100 recruits remain undecided in the 2012 class, and it seems like 6′-8″ power forward Amile Jefferson of Friends Central (PA) could be the next to come off the board. His father, Malcolm Musgrove, told Adam Zagoria of ZagsBlog.com that regarding his son’s recruitment, “I’m thinking by the end of January he [...]
January 20, 2012
Kentucky starts 2013 class with pledge from Derek Willis
Bullitt East (KY) junior Derek Willis made his college decision public on Friday, and he has elected to stay in-state powerhouse Kentucky. The 6′-9″ power forward picked the Wildcats over Purdue, Indiana and Louisville. He previously committed to Purdue as a sophomore, last year. At a press conference at his school, Willis stated,”This has not [...]
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