Quietly, under the cover of National Signing Day in college basketball, another prospect with star potential accepted one of the highest honors in high school basketball.
He was an impactful late addition to Connecticut’s 2011-12 team, but after one season, Andre Drummond is leaving Storrs and heading to the NBA draft, reports Kevin Duffy of the Connecticut Post.
According to Terry Toohey of the Delaware County Daily Times and confirmed by other outlets, Villanova’s Dominic Cheek will forego his senior season at Villanova and enter the NBA draft.
On Wednesday night, as Nerlens Noel and Shabazz Muhammad signed their letters of intent, the focus is off the class’s two biggest names and now shifts to the three most prominent remaining prospects in 2012: Anthony Bennett, Amile Jefferson, and Tony Parker.
John Calipari should be expecting a crop of young talent to depart his Kentucky program, following the Wildcats’ national title victory this season, but one guy who will stick around found some time to revel in the championship.
Kodi Maduka, the Tulsa player who collapsed while playing a game of pick-up basketball last week, has been released from the hospital, the school reported Wednesday.
Jeff Goodman of CBSSports.com is reporting that Southern Methodist has its sights set on a replacement for their vacant head coaching position: Rick Majerus.
Zach Tomaselli, one of the men who accused former Syracuse assistant Bernie Fine of sexual abuse, has been sentenced to three years in prison for sexually abusing a boy in Maine.
Shabazz Muhammad and Nerlens Noel are the two biggest unsigned names high school basketball’s 2012 class and, Wednesday night at 7:30, the world will know which college programs will gain their respective signatures.
Norm Roberts was part of a Billy Donovan staff at Florida that brought the Gators to the Elite Eight in 2011-12, but after one season, Roberts is leaving Gainesville to rejoin old friend Bill Self at Kansas, reports the Journal-World.
After averaging 14 points and 7.7 rebounds in his sophomore season with Baylor, he will declare for the NBA draft, sources tell CBSSports.com’s Jeff Goodman.
Jason King of ESPN is reporting that Baylor’s men’s and women’s basketball teams are facing possible NCAA sanctions, stemming from the results of an investigation that revealed more than 1,200 impermissible phone calls and text messages over the span of close to two and a half years.
With Connecticut’s final appeal to the NCAA struck down and the Huskies now barred from the 2012-13 postseason because of Academic Progress Rate problems, the once less-than-talked-about measurement is now firmly in the college basketball discussion.
From Wednesday, April 11 to Saturday, April 14, 2012, the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament in Portsmouth, Va., will showcase the nation’s top seniors in front of premiere NBA and European scouts.
Kansas may have come up short in the real national title game against Kentucky, but if we were measuring in social media, the Jayhawks would have brought home the crown.
Nerlens Noel and Shabazz Muhammad may be the two most talked-about names left on the college basketball recruiting board, but Anthony Bennett of Findlay Prep (Nev.) shouldn’t be far behind.
