Xavier Henry may wind up at Kentucky when all is said and done.
Henry, the 6-foot-5 shooting guard from Putnam City (OK) Putnam High, is having second thoughts about playing for Bill Self at Kansas and still could end up playing with friends for Kentucky coach John Calipari.
“If it wasn’t for his momma saying that ‘I [...]

Could Xavier Henry be headed to Europe?
Xavier and his father Carl Henry told the Kansas City Star that a month after Xavier committed to play for Kansas the family looked into a deal that would have sent Xavier to Europe next season.
“You don’t have to take any classes,” Xavier told the newspaper.
The deal would’ve paid [...]

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 [...]

Jeremy Tyler will work out later this week in Los Angeles for Maccabi Haifa Heat of the Israeli pro league.
“He’s working out and people are coming in to see him,” said grassroots basketball guru Sonny Vaccaro, who will broker Tyler’s pro deal. “The Israeli team Haifa are going to be in Thursday and Friday to [...]

Keeping up with the developments at Kansas, Kentucky and Memphis has become a full-time job…Here are today’s developments:
**Memphis says it should keep its wins from Derrick Rose’s year on campus and not forfeit its Final Four appearance.
“Certainly, the University of Memphis should not suffer a financial penalty or vacation of records for the 2008 NCAA [...]

John Calipari’s honeymoon at Kentucky sure didn’t last long.
Just a week after wrapping up what some consider among the best recruiting classes in the history of college basketball, the Memphis Commercial Appeal breaks the news that the NCAA is investigating Memphis — Cal’s old program — for major violations during the 2007-8 season.
The NCAA sent [...]

John Calipari has yet to coach his first game at the University of Kentucky and he is already a Big Winner.
Just six weeks after moving to Kentucky from Memphis, Calipari has lined up a blockbuster recruiting class that should immediately make the Wildcats a potential Top 10, if not Final Four-type, team.
When point guard John [...]

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 [...]