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C.J. Leslie May Wait Until Spring

C.J. Leslie is still plotting out his official visits and my not sign until the late signing period in the spring.
“He probably won’t sign until the spring. I can’t say for 100 percent sure,” Lisa Leslie, C.J.’s mom, said Saturday in a phone interview.
The 6-foot-8, 205-pound Leslie out of Raleigh (N.C.) Word of God Academy [...]

Barnes Announcement Up in the Air

Harrison Barnes, the No. 2 recruit in the Class of 2010, will announce his college choice sometime this month, but exact plans are still being finalized.
“We’re still working out the details,” Judge Johnston, the Ames (Iowa) High School activities director, said Thursday morning by phone. “There’s a lot of stuff going on out there in [...]

C.J. Leslie in No Hurry to Cut List; ‘Clinic to End All Clinics’ on Saturday

C.J. Leslie’s high school coach says Leslie has a list of about 11 schools and that there is no clear leader at this point.
“C.J. is still wide open with his recruitment. He doesn’t have a strong leader,” Raleigh (NC) Word of God coach Erasto Hatchett said Friday. “He’s still entertaining about 10 schools as of right [...]

C.J. Leslie Talks Schools; Cory Joseph Cuts List; Tobias Harris Sets Visits

I caught up briefly this morning with Raleigh (NC) Word of God forward C.J. Leslie before he headed into school.
The 6-foot-8, 205-pound Leslie had an in-home visit Wednesday night with Seton Hall head coach Bobby Gonzalez and assistant Dermon Player.
“It was good. It was real good,” Leslie said.
Asked if he was planning an official visit [...]

Barnes Sets Visit Schedule; Irving on Duke Visit; Johnson, Whittingham Leave St. Ray’s

Harrison Barnes, a 6-foot-6 wing who is the No. 2 player in the Class of 2010, has set the dates for the remainder of his visits.
Barnes has already visited North Carolina and will also visit:
Oct. 2 – Oklahoma
Oct. 9 – UCLA
Oct. 16 – Kansas
Oct. 23 – Duke
Nov. 6 – Iowa State (unofficial)
Duke has long been [...]

Oladipo to Indiana; McAdoo to Carolina

Victor Oladipo,a 6-5, 202-pound senior shooting guard out of Hyattsville (Md.) DeMatha, has committed to Indiana after a weekend visit to the school.
Oladipo also considered N.C. State, Clemson, UNC-Charlotte and Notre Dame.
“I did,” he said by phone. “I just felt that was my home. Coach [Tom] Crean and the Indiana basketball coaching staff have become [...]

Barnes Calls Carolina Visit ‘Fun’

Harrison Barnes, the No. 2 prospect in the Class of 2010 out of Ames (Iowa) High, visited North Carolina this weekend for the first of his official visits.
“Fun,” the 6-foot-6 Barnes wrote in a text. “The atmosphere. The past and present were all together and it was fun to think of being part of a [...]

Terrence Jones’ Visit Schedule

Seemingly every major Division 1 program in the nation is after Terrence Jones, a 6-foot-8, 220-pound  small forward from Portland (Ore.) Jefferson High ranked No. 13 in the Class of 2010.
“Right now I’m wide open,” he said. “I haven’t narrowed it down. Me and my mom [Linda Mashia] are still talking about it. It’s a big decision.”
He [...]

Austin Rivers…the Best Guard in the Country?

So I was standing next to New York recruiting expert Tom Konchalski at last week’s Boost Mobile game…and I asked him, “If you could start a college basketball team with any of the 24 players in this event, who would it be?”
Tom’s answer wasn’t Jared Sullinger, Kyrie Irving, Tobias Harris or Josh Selby…
“Austin Rivers,” he [...]

Enes Kanter Has 50 Schools After Him

Todd Simon’s life just got a whole lot busier.
As an assistant coach at Henderson (Nev.) Findlay Prep, Simon will be the point man in the recruitment of Enes Kanter, a 6-foot-10 Turkish forward who enrolled this past Wednesday.
Born in Zurich, Switzerland, and raised in Turkey, Kanter was the MVP of the U18 European Championship, where [...]