News Bits
On Sunday, UC Santa Cruz, led by 6-foot-9 junior Joseph (Pleasant Grove High) Espy's 23 points and nine boards, defeated Lewis & Clark 76-67.
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"(SAC STATE) MEN’S BASKETBALL SIGNS LOCAL PRODUCT MARK LAVRENOV"
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"(STANFORD) MEN’S BASKETBALL ANNOUNCES SIGNING OF (KRISTERS) SKRINDA"
He's 6-foot-10 and can shoot from outside.
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Sacramento Renegades: "Congratulations to Reid (Brear) on his next Journey to San Francisco State!"
The 6-foot-6, 205 Brear attends Del Oro High and also plays for the Sacramento Renegades.
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From Michigan Coach Dusty May: "Winters Grady, 6-foot-5 guard from Prolific Prep (CA): “Winters is a flat-out competitor. He is tailor-made for how we want to play at Michigan. His ability to shoot the ball is one of the reasons he’s an ideal fit. His versatility and physicality, on both the offense and defense end, will allow him to be a factor for us right away. The more we dug in and got to know him and his family, the more we realized that this a guy that we need to have in our program.”
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The 16th selection in the most recent NBA draft, guard "Jared McCain has been one of the few bright spots for a 2-11 Sixers team, averaging 25.2 points per game on .482/.441/1.000 shooting in six appearances since becoming a regular rotation player."
McCain is a Sacramento native.
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Damari (Moreau Catholic/Grand Canyon/San Francisco/Cal State Fullerton) Milstead is a graduate assistant on Loyola Marymount Coach Stan Johnson's staff this season.
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"Kansas officially signs five-star guard Darryn Peterson"
The top guard in his class, at 6-foot-5 he plays for Prolific Prep. A definite one-and-done-er.
League Ready: "Down goes No. 1! No. 5 Prolific Prep completes the 66-54 upset of top ranked
Columbus HS in Florida! The Crew (7-0) with a BIG statement win behind 33 points (11-17 FG), 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 blocks and 2 steals from Darryn Peterson."
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In four games and 35 minutes a contest for the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the G League, 6-foot-7, 225 Keshad (San Diego State/Arizona) Johnson is averaging 19.8 points per game on 48%, 21% and 69% shooting as well as 9.3 rebounds a contest.
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In four games and 28 minutes a contest for the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the G League, 6-foot-4, 205 Zyon (UC Riverside/Florida) Pullin is averaging 7.8 points on 34%, 29% and 100% shooting as well as 6.0 rebounds and 3.8 assists.
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UC Davis senior guard 6-foot-3, 190 Ty Johnson has already nabbed a Player of the Week honor and is the nation's leading scorer (28.3 points per game as of 11/19/24). He is, yes, en fuego.
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Green Bay Basketball: "A dominant (Tuesday) night for Anthony (Dublin High/USF) Roy and a dominant win for the Phoenix (over Southern Illinois Edwardsville). Roy finished with 34 points, six rebounds, five steals, and four assists!"
This guy is playing himself into the NBA draft. Can he push into round one?
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Big Sky Conference: "After averaging 27.5 points per game against No. 11 Tennessee and Utah State, Money Williams is our Men's Basketball Player of the Week."
Amazing!
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Jake Lieberman: "2026 6'5 SG Caeden Hutcherson out of Archbishop Mitty HS (CA) & Team Lillard AAU tells me that he's in contact with the following programs:
| • Idaho | • Montana |
| • Loyola Marymount | • UT Arlington |
| • San Jose State | • UNLV |
| • Cal | • St. Louis" |
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Travis Torain: "After a great visit, I am blessed to have received an offer from University of The Pacific!"
He's a 6-foot-7 wing, on the slim slide at 175 but definitely a shooter with range. Best of all, he's out of Monterey Trail High so he knows Pacific.
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Coach Nick: "6’10 F/C Andre Ngomabie has been offered by San Jose State."
The 2025 big attends a prep school located in Florida.
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On Tuesday, Demarreya (Enterprise High/Yuba College) Lewis-Cooper led Cal Poly Pomona with 15 points in leading the Sagehens to an 84-60 victory over La Sierra. 6-foot-8 freshman redshirt teammate Edric (Vanden High) Dennis also tallied 15 points shooting 5-7 on trey attempts. box.
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Wednesday, Nov 20 NCAA scores
UC Davis 75, Grand Canyon 68, box. Guard Ty Johnson led the victory with 21 points and backcourt teammate Connor (Dougherty Valley High) Sevilla scored 12 points in 26 minutes, shooting 3-5 from long range. The Aggies broke Grand Canyon's 18-game home winning streak.
Northern Colorado 79, Cal Baptist 68, box. Isaiah Hawthorne posted a 15 point, 12 rebound double-double.
Stanford 70, Norfolk State 63, box. Maxime Raynaud's double-double of 20 points plus 10 boards paced the Cardinal.
USC 82, San Jose State University 68, box. For the Spartans, Josh Uduje led with 25 points (8-12, 5-5, 4-4 shooting) and on his return to Los Angeles (albeit not Westwood), Will McClendon tallied 18 points. SJSU shot well overall but earned just eight foul shots while USC took just nine but shot better than their visitors at 57% overall.
St. Mary's 78, Stanislaus State 38, box. In 10 minutes of play, 7-foot-1 redshirt freshman Andrew (Granada High) McKeever produced 10 points, seven boards and a pair of blocked shots. He shot 5-seven overall.
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Thursday, Nov 21 NCAA scores
California 78, Air Force 69 box. Jeremiah Wilkinson led the Bears with 23 points followed by Andrej Stojakovic's 21. The point difference can be accounted by Air Force's 11 (made six) free throw attempts to 27 (made 18) for Cal.
UMemphis 68, USF 65 box. A road win for the Tennesseans earned by outscoring the Dons 46-33 in the second half. USF guard Malik Thomas made the score 66-64 on a trey with six seconds remaining. After two Memphis free throws, Thomas missed a trey at the one second mark concluding the game.
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Wednesday, Nov 20 CCCMBCA scores
Las Positas College 104, Napa Valley College 74
Skyline College 64, College of Alameda 63
Lemoore College 87, Gavilan College 78 LC box. 6-foot-7 sophomore wing Trey Booker scored 36 points (with just a single trey) and grabbed eight rebounds in the win.
Butte College 77, Cosumnes River College 73
Sierra College 64, DeAnza College 52
Contra Costa College 109, Folsom Lake College 90
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Thursday, Nov 21 CCCMBCA scores
Cabrillo College 81, Merritt College 75
College of the Redwoods 77, American River College 67
Feather River College 92, Yuba College 89
Los Medanos College 64 , Lassen College 56
Mendocino College 82, Sacto City College 75
Foothill College 92, Shasta College 89
Modesto Junior College 77, College of Marin 65
Santa Rosa Junior College 93, Upqua College 86
College of the Siskiyous 74, Cuesta College 71
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