News Bits
6-foot-3, 170 guard Emmanuel Manyoun of Garden City Community College (Kansas) has cast his college hoops lot with University of the Pacific and will sign next month. He averaged 10.7 points per game alongside 3.7 boards and 2.1 assists last season at Cloud County CC, shooting 43%, 32% and 67% respectively. Manyoun made nine starts in 32 games.
More from Kat's Paw: Pacific Tigers Men's Basketball Insider.
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Ryder Bush: "Grateful to receive a D1 offer from Sacramento State University. Thank you to the coaching staff for believing in me."
Fresno was recently Bush's first offer. He's a 6-foot-2 2025 guard at Archbishop Riordan.
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"Trio of Gaels Alumni Open the Season on NBA Rosters"
Santa Clara has two talents on NBA teams in up-and-coming Brandin Podziemski who enjoyed an excellent freshman season with Golden State and heralded big guard Jalen Williams who already is a starter for Oklahoma City.
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Spartans Exhibiting
San Jose State University topped Cal State East Bay 75-61 in an exhibition pairing on Tuesday. Concerns: the Spartans shot 4-20 from long distance and posted 14 assists versus 17 turnovers. Plaudits: Robert (Archbishop Riordan) Vaihola was back on the court after missing all of last season and grabbed 16 boards (five offensive) in 26 minutes, SJSU led by 26 in the second half and held CSEB to 29% shooting. MIA for the Spartans: 7-foot Adrame Diongue, freshman shooting guard Cameron Patterson and freshman shooting guard Ben (Sacramento) Roseborough.
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According to this from Ethan Kassel, rookie Jonathan (USF) Mogbo is in Toronto's starting lineup. More.
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"Warriors Exercise Option On Brandin Podziemski"
Guess he can now afford to move out of my so-called ADU. and I can begin to park my car there again.
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Verbal Commits: "2026 St. John Bosco (CA) F Christian Collins has received an offer from Stanford."
Collins is a 6-foot-8, 170 wing.
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"Roster chaos born of NIL money and the transfer portal have turned college hoops upside-down"
Amen. As Colorado Coach Tad Boyle is quoted: "It is easier to build a roster. It is infinitely harder to build a program.”
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Here is Ersin Demir's take on this season's West Coast Conference.
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More Exhibition Games
As expected, San Diego State defended Cal State San Marcos damn near out of existence 80-39, limiting the travelers to 19 and then 20 points in each half. Miles (Lincoln High - Stockton) Byrd scored 12 points and BJ (Modesto Christian High) Davis, coming off his 28 point outburst, tallied nine. Both started for the Aztecs.
6-foot-7 Nigel (Archbishop Mitty/Idaho State/Utah State) Burris scored 14 points in an 83-63 Weber State takedown of Adams State. He shot 6-8 overall, 2-3 beyond the arc.
UCLA handled Cal State Los Angeles 100-64 despite the best efforts of Jordan Lazo. He's a 6-foot senior out of Salesian Prep who shot 8-13 from three-point range on his way to 24 points for the visitors.
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For those in the Bay Area, remember MarJon Beauchamp? He was the subject of this November 2021 Washington Post feature all about Frank Matrisciano and his Chameleon BX training program. Question: did Beauchamp play any travel team ball when he was here? Maybe the Oakland Soldiers? Anyway, the young man made it to the NBA (for the past two seasons) but has now unfortunately been dropped by Milwaukee. Somebody in the NBA will pick him up even if it's at the GLeague level.
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The cup of basketball acumen runneth over in the above photo starting with Terry Battenburg with 34 years as a college or high school coach, Delta Head Coach Rich Ressa, Delta Assistant Coach Eddie Hernandez and Brian Katz, a D1 head coach and community college coach now retired.
By the way, Katz has a newish book out which I loved and wrote about here. Do buy it.
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661 Hoops/Central Cali Prospects: "6’8 Parker Spees |2026| San Joaquin Memorial High was dominant at the recent Jr/Sr showcase w an event high of 39 pts & a 23p 14r game to lead all players in scoring & tied for tops in rebounding! Big season coming up for the talented junior stretch-four w a 4.0+ GPA."
Spees needs added weight and muscle but his combo of skills and smarts should provide him with multiple options come his senior season."
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