NCAA

September 20, 2010 – Allen Moll The recruitment of Austin Rivers, currently the newly #1 rated prospect in the 2011 HS Recruiting Class by Rivals, has been a bit confusing. After initially giving a verbal commit to play for Billy Donovan at the University of Florida early in his HS career, Rivers has officially re-opened [...]

September 16, 2010 – Allen Moll Before sustaining an unfortunate and untimely knee injury playing football last September, Tony Wroten Jr. was well on his way to becoming the #1 rated point guard prospect in the stacked 2011 HS Class. That’s saying a lot, considering the class is loaded with a plethora of game-changing pont [...]

September 13, 2010 – Allen Moll I don’t know how they do it.  The Tennessee Volunteers basketball program continues to be a Top 25 program every season despite being the NCAA’s version of a dysfunctional family. Over the past few seasons, the program has had to deal with suspensions, racially charged comments by the head [...]

September 10, 2010 – Kevin Burke In May of this year, the University of Connecticut men’s basketball program was officially accused of eight NCAA infractions stemming from alleged telephone calls and text messages between coaches and recruits. Moreover, Head Coach Jim Calhoun was cited for failing to promote an “atmosphere of compliance.”  It was the [...]

September 7, 2010 – Allen Moll I wouldn’t be the first to tell you that college basketball recruiting at the present time is way out of control. Every top coach in America is traveling cross-country in search of the next big thing to help bring their program back to national prominence(or keep it there). Seemingly [...]

September 7, 2010 – Allen Moll As is the recent trend in college basketball, next season should once again be dominated by one and done players.  After being treated to the outstanding freshman campaigns of John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, and Avery Bradley, could Harrison Barnes at UNC, Brandon Knight at Kentucky, and Perry Jones of [...]

September 3, 2010 – The Hoop Doctors The Hoop Doctors Kevin Burke recently had a chance to chat with Brandon Knight, who last year was one of the top high school basketball players in the country, and this year is the newest member of the University of Kentucky basketball program. He is the highly recruited [...]

August 19, 2010 – Allen Moll CJ Leslie, Ryan Harrow, and Lorenzo Brown. Heading into the 2010 NCAA basketball season, these three players’ names are only known to hard-core NCAA and elite level HS basketball junkies, but come December when the season is well under way, I guarantee you that one or all three will [...]

August 13, 2010 – Allen Moll For the 2nd consecutive year, coach Jim Boeheim and his staff in upstate New York have secured a commitment from either the number 1 or 2 center prospect in the high school ranks. The Orange already have the #6 ranked recruiting class in the nation for 2010, led by [...]

August 12, 2010 – Allen Moll After proving all of the Blue Devils’ nay-sayers(and Duke haters) wrong last season, by winning their 4th National Title in school history, Nolan Smith and his Duke teammates were thought to possibly take a step back  this upcoming season, after losing a number of players to graduation like John Scheyer, [...]