Seton Hall athletic director Joe Quinlan has suspended junior forward Robert “Stix” Mitchell for the first two games of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off because of an incident that transpired last year.
“Robert Mitchell will be suspended for Seton Hall’s first two games of the O’Reilly Auto Parts Puerto Rico Tip-Off for the violation of team rules,” [...]

Thomas Robinson’s mother is getting some high-powered visitors this week in Washington, D.C.
Lisa Robinson, the mother of the 6-foot-8 senior from Brewster (N.H.) Academy ranked No. 7 among power forwards in the Class of 2009, played host Monday night to Memphis head coach John Calipari and assistant Orlando Antigua.
Kansas coach Bill Self will visit with [...]

Lance Stephenson has expressed an interest in visiting several schools other than St. John’s, but no officials to Kansas or Memphis have yet been set up, according to sources close to the situation.
Kansas head coach Bill Self did speak recently with the 6-foot-5 Stephenson, who has repeatedly said he won’t pick a school until the [...]

Bobby Gonzalez has made two hires to the vacancies on his staff.
Dennis Kazimir will take over as Director of Basketball Operations and Rodrick Rhodes will become Assistant to the Head Coach/Administrative Asst.
Kazimir, 31, takes over for Steve Sauers, now at Iona. A Brick, N.J. native and 2000 Seton Hall graduate, he previously worked [...]

There appears to be some confusion surrounding the recruitment of Sean Kilpatrick.
Ryan Hurd, the head coach at Notre Dame Prep in Fitchburg, Mass., said the only official visit Kilpatrick had set up through the proper channels was an Oct. 24 trip to Providence.
Yet Gerard Jones, who is advising Kilpatrick, says the 6-foot-5, 210-pound shooting [...]

The recruitment of Ravenscroft (NC) senior Ryan Kelly gets more and more interesting.
Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey was at Ravenscroft at 6:30 this morning for Kelly’s workout, according to a source.
Then Kelly, ranked No. 8 among power forwards in the Class of 2009, spent the day on an unofficial visit to Duke, where he [...]

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Beating Division I-AA Morgan State 38-0 at home is one thing.
Going on the road to face Pat White and Big East preseason No. 1 West Virginia is another challenge altogether.
Rutgers (1-3) has never won in 15 attempts in Morgantown, yet that is where the Scarlet Knights will find themselves on Saturday [...]

Gauchos coach Dwayne Mitchell said Durand Scott’s official visit to UConn this weekend went well.
“It went well,” said Mitchell, who was on the visit. “He just liked the tradition of the program. It’s a traditional program. Coach (Jim) Calhoun has a lot of tradition. (Scott) likes the success they’ve had over the years since (Calhoun) [...]

Memphis head coach John Calipari and assistant Orlando Antigua finally had their in-home visit Sunday night with St. Anthony star Dominic Cheek and Friars head coach Bob Hurley.
The 6-foot-5 Cheek is the No. 6 shooting guard in the Class of 2009, according to Rivals, and a first-team All-State selection.
“It thought it went very well,” Hurley [...]

It was an eventful weekend for the Pitt basketball program.
The Panthers got a commitment from 6-9, 220-pound forward Talib Zanna of Bishop McNamara High in Md.
Zanna was born in Kaduna, Nigeria and has only been playing in the U.S. since the fall of 2006. He came here to pursue his dream of play college ball [...]