Nor Cal Basketball Central/Kevin McCarthy: Potpourri, Sep 1

News Bits

Brandon Jenkins: "Isaiah Rogers, the No. 77 overall recruit in the national 2026 class, has committed to Stanford. "I value academics, relationships, and a good fit and I feel like they checked all of those boxes."

Out of southern California, the four star point guard is the second Stanford backcourt commit in the 2026 class.

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Brandon Jenkins: "Darius Bivins, the No. 84 overall recruit in the national 2026 class, tells 247Sports he has scheduled four fall official visits. Bivins also is interested in locking in dates with Houston, Maryland, Seton Hall, and Texas Tech."

He's a 6-foot point out of Virginia. Isaiah Rogers' commit above may become a factor here.

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Aaron Burgin: "Significant transfer news in San Diego, as 2027 NorCal G Jaylan Virgil checked into Torrey Pines this week. Virgil holds offers from Pepperdine and Hampton, and vaults Torrey Pines firmly into the No. 1 preseason ranking discussion in San Diego."

Virgil is a 6-foot-2 point formerly at Laguna Creek High.

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"Fred Wilson is out as Inderkum boys basketball coach after 6 CIF playoff teams"

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"Men's Basketball Adds Fortune Solomon To Staff"

UC Davis Coach Jim Les has completed his coaching staff.

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"Omari Moore completes his signing with Valencia Basketball"

The best Spartan of this decade is now playing in Spain. He was to be teaming back up with former SJSU point Álvaro Cárdenas who signed earlier with Valencia but Cárdenas was just loaned out to a team in Turkey.

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6-foot-7 lefty Jaden Goodall, transferring from California where he redshirted last season as a freshman walk-on, has moved on to San Jose State University.

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"SPARTANS SIGN TURKISH CENTER EREN KARAKAYA"

At 6-foot-10, he'll be the tallest player on the San Jose State University squad. He weighs 228 pounds. The Spartans fills their biggest need.

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Parker Spees: "Blessed to receive an offer from Long Beach State!"

He's a 6-foot-9 2026 talent at San Joaquin Memorial High. This is his 7th offer.

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Dylan: "4⭐️ PF Shane Pendergrass is down to his final 6 schools and has scheduled the following visits he tells me.

9/5-9/7 - George Mason
9/12-9/14 - Louisiana Tech
9/20 - 9/22 - LaSalle
9/25 - 9/27 - Duquesne
10/3 - 10/5 - Cal Berkeley
10/17 - 10/19 - Boise State"

The 2026 talent is out of Maryland and is ranked 85th in the Rivals 2026 rankings.

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Brandon Jenkins: "Three-star forward Max VanLaningham has scheduled two fall official visits, a source tells 247Sports.

Sept. 5-7: California Baptist
Sept. 12-14: Montana"

He's 6-foot-7, 205 and attends Woodcreek High.

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"Juan Toscano-Anderson Brings Championship Experience to Pallacanestro Trieste"

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Updates on the San Joaquin Delta College program:

Delta Men's Basketball: "Welcome home Jalen Valverde! Jalen was the starting point guard of the Big 8 Championship and Sweet 16 team, as well as being named First Team of the Big 8 in 2019. Jalen is also a former Varsity Coach at Bear Creek High School."

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Delta Men's Basketball: "Welcome Mason Galvan from Enoch High School. Mason was First Team All League CCAL as well as point guard of the league championship team."

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Delta Men's Basketball: "Welcome JP Motta from Grace Davis High School. First team All League selection in the WACL conference. Welcome to the family!"

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Delta Men's Basketball: "Welcome Ceyaan Lutt from Lincoln High School in San Francisco. Ceyaan was league MVP and also led his team to the section championship."

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