Potpourri, May 10

News Bits

Skyline Basketball: "Congrats to Milandev Chatha. Out of Fremont HS in Sunnyvale, Dev was top 10 in scoring (14.8 ppg), rebounding (6.5 rpg) & FG% (52.2%) for the Coast-North. He's a committed student-athlete, earning a 3.86 gpa this Fall, studying engineering. Fierce competitor & fantastic teammate."

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Jonathan Givony: "NEWS: Washington State's Jaylen Wells has been invited to attend the NBA Draft Combine, a source told ESPN. Wells, ranked No. 54 among ESPN draft prospects, was initially invited to the G League Elite Camp, making him a surprising omission from the first Combine list."

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"Report: Florida guard Zyon Pullin receives invite to G League Elite Camp"

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The Circuit: "2025 Team Lillard (CA) G Jalen (Dublin High) Stokes: 22 PTS (7/10 FG), 5 REB, 2 AST in a win over NY Gauchos."

That's called making a name against a tough NYC squad.

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Jake Lieberman: "6'10 Leigh Rickwood-Pitt out of Eastern Arizona College (Juco) holds offers from the following:

• Southern Indiana
• Lincoln Memorial
• University of Charleston
• Western New Mexico
• Lubbock, Christian
• Cal State East Bay

+ receiving D1 interest."

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Jake Lieberman: "6'7 wing/forward Ben Ezeagu out of Hill College (TX Juco) tells me that he's heard from the following programs in the past week:

• UMBC
• St. Martin's
• Academy of Art U
• Kentucky Wesleyan
• Texas A&M International University

Averaged: 12.8 points (63 FG%) & 6.3 rebounds

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Jake Lierberman: "2025 6’2 SG Maguire Evans out of Cleveland HS (TN) & Hawks Elite AAU is being recruited by the following programs:

• William & Mary
• Charleston Southern
• North Dakota State
• Augustana University
• LeMoyne
• Mercer
• Newberry
• Pacific
• Penn
• Nova Southeastern
• USCB

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Jake Lieberman: "'25 6'5 PG/SG Legend Smiley out of Garfield HS (WA) & Seattle Rotary holds interest from Virginia, Utah, LSU, Gonzaga, Oregon, Cal, Boise State, Alabama, Pepperdine & Washington State.

Offers: San Francisco, Washington, Seattle U, Weber State, Montana, UNLV & Utah State."

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Jake Lieberman: "Abubakar Kromah remains available. Kromah has heard from Dominican College, Embry-Riddle, Clinton College & Park University. Averaged a double-double this past year at Juco."

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InsanenessMedia: "NVC Basketball are ecstatic to add another vandenball player! Jayden Robinson will bring shooting and defensive prowess to our program. Jayden has contributed to Vanden’s Section Championships. Please join us in welcoming Jayden Robinson to the Storm Family."

Heading to Napa Valley College, the 6-foot-2 Robinson has a rep as an outstanding defender.

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Kim English: "Type shii… To all the tampering Head Coaches and Assistant coaches and flunkies…just call me and lmk if you want to recruit our players. Leave them and their families alone. Call me. I’ll see if they want to play for your programs. Yall have my number."

English is the head coach at Providence.

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Jeff Goodman: "I miss the days when a terrific recruiter was so valuable in college sports. Now it doesn't really matter. You can be a terrific recruiter, but if you don't have any NIL, you aren't getting players. And you can be a shitty recruiter, but if you have NIL you'll still be able to get guys."

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"Lamont Butler on leaving SDSU: ‘I felt like there was not much left for me to do'

Butler said a "business decision" did factor into his move."

Greater NIL $$$ plus greater visibility at Kentucky led to his move away from San Diego State. Welcome to College Hoops 2024.

He really doesn't need greater visibility. NBA folks know of him. Fans will see more of him, that's for sure.

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Verbal Commits D2: "2024 Granada (CA) F Cortevious Taylor has committed to Chico State."

Out of Granada High in the East Bay and Team Lillard (AAU), Taylor is 6-foot-6, 235.

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Verbal Commits: "Former Nevada F/C Jazz Gardner is transferring to Pacific."

UOP lands a 7-footer but one who was overrated coming out of high school (not his fault). He'll eventually help.

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Verbal Commits: "2025 Volcano Vista (NM) F Kenyon Aguino has received an offer from San José State."

2025 seems so far off at the moment.

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Portal Updates: "DePaul transfer Elijah Fisher has committed to Pacific. The 6’6” sophomore guard started 30/32 games, averaging 10.2 points, 3.8 rebounds, and 1.4 assists. Fisher is a lengthy guard who should do really well in the WCC."

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Jon Rothstein interviews new Stanford Head Coach Kyle Smith. It begins at the 12:15 mark of the podcast.

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