The Tennessee Volunteers added a verbal commitment from a 2014 recruit on Monday — the same day that their first pledge in the 2013 class signed with another school. 6′-5″ shooting guard Jordan Cornish of Brother Martin (LA) made the call to become the first member of the ’14 class at Tennessee, while point guard Travon Landry [...]

The Purdue Boilermakers are on the board in the 2014 class, after landing a verbal commitment on Sunday from 6′-5″ Dakota Mathias of Elida (OH). Mathias, who played in the Spiece Run-n-Slam over the weekend, told the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette during the tournament that Purdue was his leader, and made that status official a short time later [...]

Hoosiers continue talent grab The relative shambles that the Indiana Hoosiers‘ basketball program was in when coach Tom Crean took over has all but been erased from the minds of college basketball fans at large in a few short years, and a significant reason is because of their outstanding success on the recruiting trail. After [...]

The last live viewing period for college basketball coaches to evaluate high school basketball players opened up on Wednesday at 5 p.m., and Hoopniks.com is in Las Vegas to take in a sampling of the top grassroots basketball teams that are in the desert for one of three major tournaments. With several elite prospects in attendance at [...]

On the last day of the second July evaluation period, a well-known college coach muttered “I can’t wait to go home.” While this thought was surely shared by many of his colleagues, the 17U Sports U/Team IZOD team based out of northern New Jersey had different thoughts. Despite being forced to play back to  back games [...]

College basketball’s July live evaluation period approaches, and the three most-cited sources of player rankings for high school basketball talent, Rivals, Scout and ESPNU all updated their top 100 list for the incoming senior class of 2013 within the last month. With that in mind, the below link is the resulting “consensus” list of the [...]