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 [...]

Oak Hill (Va.) Academy features two of the top seniors in the nation in small forward Roscoe Smith and shooting guard Doron Lamb.
After talking with both players and their fathers, it appears that neither player has made up his mind about college.
The 6-foot-7 Smith has visited UConn and Georgetown officially and Duke unofficially. The date [...]

After a great visit to Kentucky this weekend, Doron Lamb faces a “tough choice” ahead, according to his father, Calvin Lamb.
Lamb, a 6-foot-4 shooting guard out of Queens, N.Y., who plays at Oak Hill (Va.) Academy and is ranked No. 3 nationally at his position by Rivals, has now taken officials to Oklahoma, Kansas and [...]

Hit the Video Player at right for my interview with Kimani Young, the former St. John’s assistant and current AD at New Heights Youth.
Kimani has been on both sides of the college recruiting game and knows it as well as anybody. He’s in a unique position to be able to advise young men on their [...]

Doron Lamb, Josh Selby and Harrison Barnes enjoyed their weekend official visits to Kansas but are all still involved in the recruiting process.
Lamb, 6-foot-4 combo guard from Queens, N.Y., who plays at Oak Hill (Va.) Academy, tripped to Kansas for “Late Night in the Phog” with his father, Calvin. Lamb was hosted by former St. Anthony guard Tyshawn [...]

When Midnight Madness tips off around the nation Friday night, many of the top New York-area prospects won’t be in the Big Apple.
They’ll be taking in the show at Kentucky.
“I’m excited, it should be good,” said Dix Hills (N.Y.) Half Hollow Hills West forward Tobias Harris, who leaves Friday for Kentucky’s “Big Blue Madness.”
“I heard it’s a really great atmosphere [...]

UConn coach Jim Calhoun has found his latest big man.
Michael Bradley, a 6-foot-9, 210-pound forward/center out of Chattanooga (Tenn.) Tyner Academy, called Calhoun Tuesday night to tell him he was choosing the Huskies over Drake.
“He was excited. He was like, ‘Welcome to the family’ and stuff like that,” Bradley said Wednesday by phone.
Bradley, who owns a [...]

The mother of five-star power forward Terrence Jones says she has tentatively set up a run of official and unofficial vists for her son.
Jones, a 6-8 forward out of Portland (Ore.) Jefferson, has the following visits on tap:
Oct. 9 – Oklahoma
Oct. 16 – Washington
Oct. 23 – Arizona
Oct. 28 – Kentucky for Blue/White Game
Oct. 31 – [...]

Doron Lamb is coming off an official visit to Oklahoma this weekend and has several other visits planned.
The Queens, N.Y. native and Oak Hill (Va.) Academy guard will visit Kansas the weekend of Oct. 16 and a visit for Arizona is tentatively set for the weekend of Oct. 23.
“Then we’ll just have to wait and see [...]

Brandon Knight, the top prospect in the nation out of Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Pine Crest, enjoyed his weekend visit to UConn and will visit several other schools before deciding — potentially in the spring.
“He had a good visit,” Pine Crest coach Dave Beckerman said Tuesday by phone before he took off for Italy for two [...]