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Andre Drummond to Visit Rutgers

Andre Drummond, the No. 1 player in the Class of 2012, will visit Rutgers unofficially Feb. 20 for the UConn game.
The 6-foot-11, 270-pound Drummond will likely visit with Matt Quinn, the son of St. Thomas More coach Jere Quinn.
“He’s a good kid and I like Freddie [Hill] and those people so I’ll try to help [...]

Strickland Drops 18 in Carolina Win; Caracter Puts Up Another Double-Double

Dexter Strickland had a breakout performance against a team from his home state.
The former Elizabeth (N.J.) St. Patrick star scored a career-high 18 points Monday to lead No. 9 North Carolina to an 81-67 victory over Rutgers at the Smith Center in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Rutgers (9-3) closed within four points with about 2 minutes left, but [...]

Harris, Irving Among Naismith Nominees

Long Island forward Tobias Harris, New Jersey guard Kyrie Irving and two players committed to North Carolina are among the 10 high school seniors headlining the Naismith Trophy Boy’s High School Player of the Year watch list. 
Harris is headed to Tennessee, Irving to Duke and the North Carolina players are Harrison Barnes and Reggie Bullock.
The [...]

Big Night for Jersey; Harkless to Cut List

It’s always cool to see guys you covered in high school excel in the college ranks.
And on Tuesday night, two guys I covered in the preps, Rashad Bishop of Cincinnati (pictured) and Dexter Strickland of North Carolina, both had big nights.
Bishop, a Paterson, N.J., native who played for Jimmy Ring at Paterson Kennedy and Dan [...]

Johnson Comes Up Big Against Carolina

NEW YORK – Playing on the biggest stage of his life Friday night, Wesley Johnson came through with a performance that thrust him into the national college basketball consciousness.
 
Johnson, a 6-foot-7 junior forward, put up a game-high 25 points and 8 rebounds and earned tournament MVP honors as the Orange throttled No. 6 North Carolina, [...]

Carolina, Syracuse Headed for Showdown

NEW YORK — Syracuse didn’t land top recruit Tobias Harris Thursday night, but the Orange did score a blowout victory over a Top 25 team that traveled 3,000 miles for the beatdown.
 
Before a huge pro-Orange crowd at Madison Square Garden that included former Syracuse great Derrick Coleman, the Orange dispatched No. 13 Cal, 95-73, to [...]

Big Hoops Day in New York City

Once again it’s one of those days where I wish someone could clone me (like a sheep) and I could be in 2 or 3 places at once…Look at what’s going on today in the New York area:
12:30 – Knicks practice in Greenburgh,  N.Y. Knicks are coming off just their second win of the season last night in [...]

Jersey’s Strickland Adjusting to Life at Carolina; Tar Heels Loaded Schedule

I wrote a feature on North Carolina freshman point guard Dexter Strickland that that you can read here on SNY.tv but there were a few items that didn’t make the story.
**First off, how about this loaded schedule that North Carolina has in the next couple of weeks? The defending NCAA champion Heels could play five [...]

Barnes Makes Announcement Via Skype

Harrison Barnes took his recruiting announcement to a new level.
In a press conference at Ames (Iowa) High School, the 6-foot-6 Barnes sat at a table showcasing the insignias of each of his final six schools. He then praised each program before calling his final choice via Skype.
After the connection appeared to briefly drop out, Barnes [...]

Decision Day for Barnes; Big Visits on Tap

Sometime after 4 o’clock Eastern Friday afternoon, Harrison Barnes is going to make some college basketball program very happy by announcing on ESPNU.
We don’t know which program because Barnes is keeping his cards very close to the vest.
Barnes, ranked No. 2 in the Class of 2010 by Rivals and out of Ames (Iowa) High, will [...]