News Bits
PD Web: "2026 Elias Obenyah (6’5 G) of Salesian Prep (CA & Team Lillard has earned an offer from UC Davis."
Could see him at GuardU and such a move would keep him in Nor Cal.
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PD Web: "2026 Elias Obenyah (6’5 G) of Salesian Prep (CA) & Team Lillard has earned an offer from Stanford."
My money is on the Cardinal IF NIL money is comparable to any other offer.
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PD Web: "2026 Elias Obenyah (6’5 G) of Salesian Prep (CA) & Team Lillard has earned an offer from UC Santa Barbara.
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PD Web: "2026 Elias Obenyah (6’5 G) of Salesian Prep (CA) & Team Lillard has earned an offer from Nevada."
Obenyah is in need of a spreadsheet to keep track of all his offers and their pluses and minuses.
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Devaughn Dorrough: "Extremely blessed to have received an offer from UNLV!"
Not going to happen because Dorrough will be going to one of the top 10 hoops schools in the country. Stanford, Washington, San Diego State, USF, USC, California, San Jose State University, McNeese State (????), Weber State, UC Riverside and Sacramento State have each offered. His new school is Coronado High in Las Vegas so it's likely I won't be posting much about him anymore.
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Former Sacramento State assistant Brady Bergeson is the new head coach at Cal State San Marcos.
Really, the sole reason for this item is to list the names of he and his wife's three children: Dash, Pilot and Clutch. I don't think he runs a sedate offense.
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Gladiator Basketball: "Gladiator 6’3 Soph PG 2 X 1st team Coast North Conference selection Marcellus Edwards has committed to a full scholarship to Concordia University."
A Speights Academy grad, he could help the majority of the Nor Cal D1 programs.
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Gladiator Basketball: "Gladiator 6’5 Soph PG F Jeylen Slayton has committed to a scholarship to Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio."
A 6-foot-4 guard, he prepped at Newark Memorial High and transferred in to Chabot College from Cuesta College
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Modesto Junior College Coach Brice Fantazia is at work to produce a replica record, or better, in the 2025-26 season.
MJC Men's Basketball: "Excited to welcome 6’6 Wing Max (Oak Ridge High) Manfredi to the Pirate Family. Max is a transfer from American River College where he was named First Team Big 8 while averaging 17.8 PPG and 7.1 REB."
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MJC Men's Basketball: "Excited to welcome 6’8 Forward Mohamed Sene from Mbour, Sénégal and Stade Toulousain Basketball of France to the Pirate Family."
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MJC Men's Basketball: "Excited to welcome 6’6 Guard Kwamé Kimoto from La Roche sur Yon, France to the Pirate Family."
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"A basketball murder, surprise parole, and a whistleblower's life upended"
Dan Wetzel goes masterfully long and deep about the ramifications surrounding Patrick Dennehy's murder. Dennehy attended Wilcox High and graduated from St. Francis High. Coach Dave Bliss emerges as a contemptible human being here.
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Sada Nganga: "BIG THANKS to http://bluegoldnil.com Proud to be a Spartan! @BlueGoldNIL @SanJoseStateMBB"
The 6-foot-10, 220 pound forward is apparently returning after hitting the transfer portal.
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Verbal Commits: "2026 Marist (IL) F Stephen Brown has received an offer from San José State."
Brown is 6-foot-7 and uber athletic. His shooting range and scoring ability are developing.
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Verbal Commits: "2026 Francis Parker (CA) G Ezekiel Walker has received an offer from San José State."
He's a 6-foot-2 sharpshooting guard out of the San Diego area who missed last summer's AAU action due to injury.
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Chapman Basketball: "It’s officially official — Dylan Mansour is a Panther! Hailing from Lafayette, California, Dylan is a product of Campolindo High School, where he was a league champion in 2021, 2022, and 2023, compiling an impressive 51-10 record over his final two seasons."
Mansour stands 6-foot-3 and is headed to the OC. He spent this past season at Washington, seeing action in five games.
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"CHUCK TERRELL NAMED EXEC. DIRECTOR OF BASKETBALL OPS & PLAYER MANAGEMENT"
Out of Oakland, Terrell played first at San Jose State University, then Pacific and is now back in the college ranks at Georgia Tech.
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Verbal Commits: "2026 Basha (AZ) G Mason Magee has received an offer from UC Davis."
USF offered the 6-foot-1 point last week.
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Nathalio Gray Jr. (NJ): "After a great talk with Coach Muench. I’m blessed to receive a Division 1 offer from LMU. Thank you to the coaching staff for believing in me."
He's a 6-foot-1 2027 point attending The Branson School who will be going much higher. LMU is one of those schools trying to get on/stay on the right side of .500, then to 20 wins and hopefully springboard from there but a struggle it has been.
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Siincere Hudson: "After a great phone call with LMU Coach Johnson, I'm blessed to have received an offered from LMU basketball."
Ditto: He's a 6-foot-1 2027 point now attending Modesto Christian High who will be going much higher. LMU is one of those schools trying to get on/stay on the right side of .500, then to 20 wins and hopefully springboard from there but a struggle it has been.
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Devin Aye: "Congrats to Jags sophomore, Chinedu Nwankwo on his full scholarship commitment to NCAA II powerhouse, Kentucky Wesleyan! Chin was First Team Defense, and All Conference Honorable Mention. He carries a 3.5 GPA. Chin is the 6th Jag to sign a scholarship to University in ‘25!"
Out of Kimball High in Tracy, Nwankio stands 6-foot-6 and weighs 205. He averaged 9.6 points and 6.6 rebounds per game this past season.
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Welchy Report: "Part 2 Top Performers from this weekends ACCC Juco Jam Live Period in Hanceville Alabama:
Trey Knight - Wallace State..."
Knight is out of Moreau Catholic High and Tacoma CC.
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