News Bits
Further in, it will seem like this is a Stanford recruiting newsletter but, hey, Kyle Smith and Crew are currently hyperactive in contacting prospective talents. Hey, we're just posting what we find. On with the show.
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"Can Randy Bennett and St. Mary’s still thrive in new era of college hoops?"
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Arman Jovic: "2024 6’6 G/F Veniamin Abosi is currently (June 17) conducting an official visit with San Francisco. One of the top international prospects aiming to go college basketball."
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Chase Rawlins: "Had a great time at the Princeton Elite Camp, Appreciate the invite."
Rawlins is a 6-foot-6, 2025 Folsom High/Rose City Ballers prospect who apparently has very good grades.
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661 Hoops/Central Cali Prospects: "MCSummerClassic Day 1 - 5’9 McKae Amundsen | 2026 | Clovis North Basketball
"McKae was absolutely scotching hot from deep, as he would connected on 8 3s for a team high 24pts in a solid win over St. Ignatius. Amundsen keeps constant pressure on the defense, moves fluidly off the ball to get open looks, handles & moves to slice thru the defense, a pesky on-ball defender that creates turnovers, &, as stated, really coming into his own and playing/shooting w/superior confidence! Broncos looking strong to start the summer off!"
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Cal Poly Humboldt Men's Basketball: "Cal Poly Humboldt signs Division I transfer Josiah Sanders, a combo forward from Central Michigan!"
Sanders stands 6-foot-6 and weighs 235. He is the third D1 transfer signed by second-year Coach Chris Tifft since the recruiting portal opened.
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Recruits Zone: "Stanford is the latest to reach out to 2026 prospect BJ Powell since the initial contact period began, a source tells me."
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Recruits Zone: "Top-65 2026 prospect Joe Sterling tells me that he has heard from the following schools since the initial contact period began:
| • Boise State | • UC Riverside |
| • Stanford | • Harvard |
| • St. Mary’s | • Oklahoma |
| • USC | • San Francisco |
| • UC San Diego | • Clemson" |
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Recruits Zone: "2026 prospect Jaden Bailes tells me that he has heard from the following schools since the initial contact period began:
| • San Diego State | • New Mexico |
| • Montana | • UCSD |
| • UCI | • San Diego |
| • San Francisco | • Utah Valley |
| • Yale | • Wyoming |
| • UCSB" |
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Jake Lieberman: "2026 6'7 PG Sammy Jackson out of Roman Catholic HS (PA) & Philly Pride has heard from Notre Dame, Stanford & Stonehill since contact period began."
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365 Recruits: "2026 6'4 Guard, Silas Rodriguez tells us he has heard from the following schools since the 15th:
| • TCU | • Stanford |
| • Butler | • Georgetown |
| • Rice | • UTEP |
| • New Orleans | • Texas St |
| • South Dakota | • Harvard |
| • Albany | • UC Riverside |
| • Troy | • Idaho St |
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Recruits Zone: "Top-70 2026 prospect Isaiah Rogers tells me that he has heard from the following schools since the initial contact period began:
| • New Mexico | • UC Riverside |
| • Utah | • San Diego |
| • Boise State | • UNLV |
| • Harvard | • Stanford" |
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Recruits Zone: "Top-55 2026 prospect Marcus Ponder has heard from the following schools since the initial contact period began, a source tells me:
| • Miami | • Georgetown |
| • Georgia | • Providence |
| • Virginia Tech | • Stanford |
| • Murray State | • Illinois" |
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Recruits Zone: "2026 5 🌟 prospect Deron Rippey Jr. tells me that he has heard from the following schools since the initial contact period began:
| • GT | • LSU |
| • Penn St | • Providence |
| • Cuse | • Stanford |
| • Virginia | • Arkansas |
| • Kansas | • ND |
| • Louisville | • Maryland |
| • Rutgers | • Villanova |
| • Michigan | • Indiana |
| • Auburn | • Columbia |
| • Bryant" |
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Modesto Junior College Men's Basketball: "Excited to welcome 5’11 PG Tyler Rattler of Sheldon High School to the Pirate family."
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6-foot-7, 225 Tyran Stokes of Pacific Prep has earned multiple offers recently from Utah, USC, Michigan, Arkansas and Central Florida.
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Jonathan Givony of ESPN: "...Terrence Shannon, Adem Bona, Cam Spencer, and Jaylen Wells are among the players Givony likes as second-round targets."
The 6-foot-7 Wells is out of Folsom High, Sonoma State and Washington State.
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The Portal Report: "Updated list of schools that have reached out to CSUN forward De'Sean Allen-Eikens.
That's Cal State Northridge and Allen-Eikens is 6-foot-6, 215.
| • St. John's | • VCU |
| • Minnesota | • Green Bay |
| • Hawaii | • Texas A&M |
| • California | • NJIT |
| • UT Martin | • UC Irvine |
| • Utah Tech | • Pacific |
| • San Diego State | • Utah" |
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Transfer Portal For Playing Time: "CBB Transfer Portal Numbers by Year
- 2019: 1,516 Transfers
- 2020: 1,623 Transfers
- 2021: 2,454 Transfers
- 2022: 2,563 Transfers
- 2023: 2,725 Transfers
- 2024: 3,055 Transfers"
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Transfer Portal For Playing Time: "TP Stats: Between Division 1 and Division 2 there are 3,055 players currently in the Transfer Portal.
- D1: 2,035 Transfers
- D2: 1,020 Transfers
- Committed: 1,710 Transfers (56.0%)
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"The ‘Portal House’: How USC’s Eric Musselman pulled in a wave of transfers"
Luca Evans of the Orange County Register offers a breezy read. Not NorCal-related but still worth it.
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"Laker legend Jerry West's final legacy sadly includes estrangement from Lakers"
West was a genius at talent evaluating and forming a team. Landing Kobe Bryant -- a high school player!!! -- because he could envision 17-year-old Kobe's future when so many others couldn't, kiboshing a Klay Thompson for Kevin Love trade in 2014 -- match up the stats of those two -- and so on. FACT: Jeanie Buss is no Jerry Buss as a team owner and Rob Pelinka certainly is no Jerry West as a general manager. It's sad that egos weren't buried long ago and thus West remained in exile. It damaged the franchise to this day. What a player, what a general manager, what a consultant. Colossal success with each job title.
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