Twenty-four players, including 16 with previous USA Basketball experience, have accepted invitations to attend the 2013 USA Basketball Men’s U19 World Championship Team Training camp that will be held June 14-19 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, Colo. The USA Basketball Men’s Junior National Team committee issued the player invitations. Several [...]

The NC State Wolfpack landed a fifth member of its 2013 recruiting class on Monday, as 6′-7″, 180 pound Oak Hill Academy (VA) power forward Lennard Freeman announced his pledge via his Twitter account. Freeman reportedly picked NC State over the Pittsburgh Panthers, Villanova Wildcats, DePaul Blue Demons and UAB. He was also previously considering a [...]

On Monday, The Recruit Scoop announced its star-filled roster for the 3rd annual Mary Kline Classic, taking place on Sunday, June 2 at Philadelphia University’s Gallagher Center in Philadelphia, P.A. Following a tremendous second year in which $21,000 was raised for cancer research, and featured Mary Kline Classic alumni Rondae Jefferson, Ryan Arcidiacono, Georges Niang [...]

In its 28th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA TODAY High School Sports, announced on Thursday their 2012-13 Gatorade Boys Basketball Players of the Year for each state. The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character [...]

Solid signing classes, uncertain future It’s a fair statement to say that no one knows exactly where Big East basketball will be five years from now. With some of its most prominent members bound for the ACC and an imminent breakaway of the remaining Catholic schools, the status of the Big East as a high-major [...]

College basketball’s early signing period, which kicked off on Wednesday, waited until Friday to drop some relative intrigue on fans, with four pledges of top-50 talents of varying surprise announced. The decisions of two thick-bodied true centers in a class with a relative dearth similar players, Kennedy Meeks to the North Carolina Tar Heels over [...]