Former Duke guard Elliot Williams is headed to Memphis.
“I’m a Memphis Tiger,” Williams told the Memphis Commercial Appeal in a text.
“The most important thing in this situation was coming closer to my family,” Williams said today. “As far as basketball, I’m playing for a great coach in [Memphis head coach Josh] Pastner.
“I mean, I’m playing [...]

Duke guard Elliot Williams is leaving after one season because of family medical reasons.
He is expected to file an appeal for a waiver of the NCAA’s year in residence transfer rule that would require him to sit out the 2009-10 season. Williams is seeking to transfer closer to his hometown of Memphis, Tenn., to be [...]

Rod Strickland knows a thing or two about being an elite point guard.
Strickland was selected by the Knicks in the 1988 NBA Draft and enjoyed a stellar NBA career.
Now he serves on John Calipari’s staff at Kentucky, where he will help coach two of the top point guards in the nation next year in John [...]

Kyrie Irving plans to cut his list of schools down later this summer, but right now Indiana ranks right up near the top.
Irving, a 6-foot-1, 175-pound guard from St. Patrick of Elizabeth (N.J.), visited Indiana two weeks ago for an AAU event and really enjoyed his time there.
“They’re at the top of my list for [...]

Kentucky coach John Calipari completed a blockbuster recruiting class with the commitment of John Wall, the No. 1 prospect in the nation.
“Our relationship helped out a whole lot,” Wall said Tuesday morning by phone. “It was a tough battle to the end, and just the relationship I had with Coach Cal and the other guards [...]

John Wall could be inching closer to a decision later this week.
“He is still weighing options. End of the week it sounds like,” said a source close to the situation.
As I previously reported, Wall is believed to be down to Kentucky and Miami and will choose between those two schools. His advisor, Brian Clifton, told [...]

John Wall says he hasn’t committed to Kentucky or anywhere else, despite a slew of rumors to the contrary on Thursday.
“No, I haven’t,” Wall wrote Thursday in a text.
A source at Kentucky also said the school did not issue any kind of ultimatum requiring Wall to choose a school within any time frame.
As I previously [...]

John Wall is down to two schools — Kentucky and Miami — according to multiple sources close to the situation.
“It’s down to the two of them, no question about it,” one source said. “It is Kentucky and Miami. The kid is leaning toward Kentucky. There is a little bit of a concern with the [...]

Here’s the trailer for ‘The Street Stops Here,’ the documentary film about St. Anthony coach Bob Hurley and the impact he’s had on hundreds of young men.
The trailer features clips of Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and North Carolina coach Roy Williams, as well as Rutgers guard Mike Rosario, Kansas guard Tyshawn Taylor and Villanova-bound wing [...]

To the surprise of absolutely no one, John Wall is still considering Kentucky even after Eric Bledsoe committed to the Wildcats on Wednesday.
“Yea,” Wall wrote in a text message Thursday.
The 6-foot-4 Wall is the No. 1 recruit in the Class of 2009 and is considering Baylor, Duke, Florida, Kentucky, Memphis, Miami and N.C. State.
He said [...]