C.J. Leslie is staying home for college.

The 6-foot-8 forward from Raleigh (N.C.) Word of God Academy committed Wednesday to N.C. State, picking the Wolfpack over Kentucky and UConn.

If the Seton Hall basketball team has a distinctly European feel to it next year, don’t be surprised.

The Pirates are involved with Torgrim Sommerfeldt, a 6-foot-6 shooting guard from Norway, and Ozan Dilik, a 6-4 point guard from Turkey.

Sommerfeldt visited the South Orange, N.J. campus last weekend and will likely choose from among Seton Hall, Rutgers, FDU and Florida International in the coming weeks.

“It looks like Rutgers or Seton Hall,” said Matt Fisher, Sommerfeldt’s Baltimore-based mentor. “He had a great visit at Seton Hall. They blew him away. Those guys are pretty impressive.” (more…)

Eddie Jordan is out of the mix at Rutgers.

The former Rutgers star and Philadelphia 76ers head coach withdrew his name from consideration on Tuesday.

The news was first reported by Gannett New Jersey and confirmed by a team source.

“Word is Jordan backed out,” the team source said.

A second source close to the 76ers indicated Jordan wanted to keep his NBA options open. With several job openings looming, Jordan hopes to remain in the pros.

“With the climate around the league, there’s potentially a lot of jobs going to be open in the NBA,” the 76ers source said. (more…)

With Terrence Ross already headed to Washington, can the Huskies expect his Portland (Ore.) Jefferson teammate Terrence Jones to join him?

Both players will formally announce their college plans Friday at a 6:30 ET press conference at Portland Jefferson.

As first reported by ZAGSBLOG Sunday night, the 6-foot-5 Ross (pictured courtesy the Seattle Times) has already opted for Washington over Kansas, Kentucky, Oregon and Oklahoma.

“I am going to Washington because of the great relationship I have with the team and coaches. I thought it would be the best choice for me and I would fit in with the team,” Ross told ZAGSBLOG contributor Alex Kline via Facebook.

The 6-8 Jones is coming off a recent official visit to Kansas. (more…)

Kyle Anderson Jr., one of the top sophomores in the nation, will play for St. Anthony coach Bob Hurley next year with Paterson Catholic set to close in June.

“He’s going to go to St. Anthony,” Kyle Anderson Sr. said. “Bob Hurley is a Hall of Fame coach. Transportation is easy because I work in Jersey City and I just think it’s the best fit for him to help him transition to the next level.”

A 6-foot-8, 215-pound North Bergen, N.J. native, Anderson has interest from Miami, Georgetown, Kentucky, La Salle, Virginia Tech, North Carolina and Seton Hall.

A natural point guard, he can play virtually any position on the floor. (more…)

Despite swirling rumors around Mike Brey, Notre Dame officials say he remains the program’s head coach.

“Mike Brey is the basketball coach at Notre Dame,” university spokeswoman Bernadette Cafarelli said Tuesday afternoon by phone.

Various Internet sites indicate rumors are swirling around campus that Brey will be dismissed because of a violation of the university’s code of conduct.

If I learn more, I will post it.

(Photo courtesy Notre Dame Athletics)

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**UPDATE: As first reported here Tuesday morning, Glenn Braica is the new coach at St. Francis College in Brooklyn. He signed a multi-year deal Tuesday and will be introduced Thursday at an 11:30 press conference. Here’s the release.**

St. Francis of Brooklyn is on the brink of announcing its next coach and multiple sources said former St. John’s assistant Glenn Braica is the leading candidate.

“We should be announcing in the next couple days. It could be as early as today [Tuesday]. It could be tomorrow [Wednesday],” a university source said.

Braica was at St. John’s from 2004-10 under former coach Norm Roberts, who was fired last month after six seasons.

Before that he was the Associate Head Coach at St. Francis from 2000-01 to 2003-04. At St. Francis, Braica also served as the recruiting coordinator and was instrumental in on-court coaching, scouting, individual workouts, preseason and postseason conditioning, film exchange and the monitoring of each player’s academic progress.

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Kadeem Jack was set to announce his college choice Wednesday on SNY.tv, but instead appears headed to prep school, possibly South Kent (Conn).

“Kadeem said that he is not making any commitments to college. He is considering prep school,” Rice High School coach Maurice Hicks wrote in a text.

The 6-foot-9 Jack is considering UConn, Arizona, Arkansas, St. John’s and Miami. Instead, it appears he will spend a year prepping in order to mature physically and basketball-wise. (more…)

Here’s a short clip of St. John’s coach Steve Lavin speaking Monday with reporters. He was supposed to throw out the first pitch before the Mets game was rained out.

St. John’s is involved with Los Angeles Westchester senior forward Dwayne Polee, who visits Oregon Friday. Polee was set to announce for either St. John’s or Georgia before opting to visit Oregon.

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Dayton coach Brian Gregory is reportedly a candidate for the Rutgers’ vacancy, but he says he hasn’t had any official conversations with Rutgers AD Tim Pernetti and is not interested in the job.

“I’m not interested in leaving Dayton. … I’m concerned with helping this team and the incoming players have a great summer and continuing to recruit the guys who can help us in the future,” Gregory told Doug Harris of the Dayton Daily News.

Gregory was reportedly offered the jobs at Boston College and Iowa but turned them down. He has a contract at Dayton that runs through 2018. (more…)