Latavious Williams, a 6-7 wing from Humble (Texas) Christian Life Center ranked the No. 6 power forward in the nation, pushed his college announcement until Tuesday in Houston.
“About 2 o’clock [Central Time]. I didn’t do anything today,” he wrote in a text.
Williams will decide between Georgetown, Memphis, Oklahoma, Kansas State and Florida International. He previously told me Memphis was his leader.
Dan Wolken of The Memphis Edge is also reporting that 6-7 forward Noel Johnson will ask out of his Letter of Intent to USC because of the
NCAA investigation in the wake of the O.J. Mayo and Reggie Bush cases. Memphis could be one possible landing spot for Johnson if he gets his release.
TEAM FINAL WINS BOB GIBBONS
Team Final, a Pennsylvania-based AAU team coached by Rob Brown, beat the CP3 All-Stars to win the Bob Gibbons U17 Tournament of Champions bracket on Sunday.
“The kids played hard, the kids played real well,” Brown said.
Syracuse commit Dion Waiters of Burlington (N.J.) Life Center Academy scored a game-high 27 points to win MVP honors. The 6-3 Waiters is ranked the No. 6 shooting guard in the Class of 2010.
St. Patrick of Elizabeth (N.J.) standout Michael Gilchrist, the No. 3 player in the Class of 2011, caused matchup problems all tournament and added 22 points.
Team Final also featured Villanova commit Markus Kennedy of Apex Academies, Tyreek Duren of Neumann-Goretti and Trevor Cooney of the Sanford (Del.) School.
Team Final brought only eight players to the tournament, and then lost the 6-foot-8 Kennedy for the second half of the final with a patella tendon injury but still won the title.
Team Final ousted Kyrie Irving and the New Jersey Roadrunners in the quarterfinals, holding Irving to just 9 points after the St. Patrick junior guard had dropped 40 or more on a couple of teams.
“He’s becoming a dynamic player,” Roadrunners coach Sandy Pyonin, who over the years has coached future NBA guards like Bobby Hurley, Jason Williams and Randy Foye, told the Fayetteville Observer. “And he doesn’t like to lose. So if guys aren’t playing at his level, it bothers him. But it always bothers the great ones. Kyrie is very humble and very mature and very comfortable with his game.”
**Paterson (N.J.) Catholic sophomore guard Myles Mack of the Playaz Basketball Club was named MVP of the 16s.
Monday as in today or next Monday? Hasn’t this guy told you Monday a number of times now?
Moved to tomorrow (Tuesday) 2pm CST. I think he’s making the announcement at his school. The bigger question is can this kid get thru the NCAA Clearinghouse in time to even be able to play before January.
I dont see this kid doing anything in college. Being eligible that is.
Latavious is elegible ….. he’s going to Memphis ….so is Lance …and so is Noel Evans from USC …..we’ll have a surprise at PG in 3 weeks ….. top 5 team again …..and will smash either Ky. or Kansas again if we play them …next subject
Gotta love the hubris coming from Memphis (of all places).
Pasta, the only way you’ll have a top 5 team is if WWW continues to funnel kids to memphis. If so, I doubt you’ll be able to create 1 this year.
Actually the annoucment is still on for today. See thememphisedge.com
My understanding is that h ewill clear the clearing house. Memphis has great tudoring program.
latavious just committed to memphis, see http://memphis.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?Sport=2&pr_key=64277
pastaboy i want you to remember what you said when memphis and KU play in November in St. Louis.
and what do you mean again? has memphis ever “smashed” UK or KU?
having said that latavious is a good pick up for memphis and should help immediately.
You can’t make this stuff up.
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Well jayhawk 4 we beat Ky. the only time we played them …and we smashed you guys for 38 minutes and lost on some fluke plays …… now I’m thinking 139 and 13 allows some hubris ….so next we have King Lance entering the building …. with him playing at Pg ….we’ll smash you in Nov. …..sorry
wow, did you watch that championship game? KU was ahead at halftime and half of the second half until memphis made a big run to get there lead that they squandered. your biggest lead was 9, then you blew it. real big “smash”.
dont get me wrong, i think memphis will be good next year, but for you to say they will “smash” the consensus top 2 teams in america in KU and UK is a little bit of a stretch.