New Jersey’s two top high school programs continued their winning ways Tuesday night.
Dan Hurley’s St. Benedict’s Gray Bees won the Gatorade International Championship in Puerto Rico with an 84-66 victory over Bayamon Military of Puerto Rico.
Texas-bound forward Tristan Thompson led St. Ben’s with 22 points, Rice-bound guard Tamir Jackson scored 14, PItt commit Lamar Patterson had [...]

PATERSON, N.J. — Jayvaughn Pinkston was simply too big and too strong for Plainfield (N.J.) and the junior led Bishop Loughlin to a 77-59 rout of the Cardinals in the championship game of the inaugural Jingle Bells Jubilee at Paterson Catholic.
With Rutgers head coach Fred Hill and Virginia assistant Steve Seymour looking on, Pinkston, a [...]

With Seton Hall head coach Bobby Gonzalez back in the hotel serving a one-game suspension, No. 11 Syracuse blew out Seton Hall, 100-76, tonight in the Big East Opener for both teams.
The Orange (13-1) converted 12 of 22 from beyond the arc and got 26 points from Andy Rautins and 20 from Eric Devendorf, who [...]

Mike Rosario and Travon Woodall are not brothers, but they might as well be.
The two former St. Anthony of Jersey City teammates spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day together at the home of their former teammate, Jio Fontan, in Paterson, N.J. They shared a family dinner, watched “The Dark Knight” and “Wanted” and traded stories [...]

Welcome to the Big East schedule.
No sooner did it start than we had our first major surprise of the year as No. 11 Georgetown went into Hartford and outplayed No. 2 UConn in every way, shape and form en route to a 74-63 victory.
DaJuan Summers scored 18 points and Chris Wright and freshman Greg Monroe [...]

Two of the area’s premier juniors will square off on Tuesday for the championship of the inaugural Jingle Bells Jubilee.
Isaiah Epps (pictured) will lead Plainfield against Jayvaughn Pinkston and Bishop Loughlin at 4 p.m. at Paterson Catholic.
Epps holds offers from Pittsburgh, Maryland, Rutgers and Seton Hall and has interest from Kansas and Marquette, while Pinkston [...]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Fitting that Rutgers would end the 2008 season with a come-from-behind win.
After winning only one of their first six games, Mike Teel and the Scarlet Knights erased an 11-point second half deficit to defeat North Carolina State 29-23 in the Papajohns.com Bowl on Monday.
“As the whole year went, we [...]

After Mike Rosario scored a team-high 26 points in Sunday night’s loss to No. 1 North Carolina, Tar Heels coach Roy Williams pulled Rosario aside and offered him a compliment.
“He said that he wishes me the best of luck and that I’m a great player,” Rosario recalled Monday. “He said, ‘Just keep doing what you’re [...]

Former Florida guard Jai Lucas is headed to Texas.
“Texas has always been my dream school. I always wanted to go there,” Lucas said, according to the AP. “I hope I can come in and contribute and be a part of something big.”

Lucas, the son of former NBA player John Lucas, said Texas coach Rick [...]

Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg recently perused the Rutgers men’s basketball schedule and instantly felt empathy for his colleague Fred Hill.
The Scarlet Knights, after all, are in the midst of an unprecedented stretch in college basketball history.
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