News Bits
"Myles Jones reclassifies to 2025 class and signs with Stanford"
The 6-foot-3 Modesto Christian combo guard pulls a surprise. Jaylen Petty eventually signed with Texas Tech after a short committment to The Farm. Call me biased but the Stanford environment versus TT (Lubbock), c'mon. A Stanford education versus TT, c'mon. TT's Grant McCasland is an excellent college hoops coach but so is Kyle Smith. Right now, the Big 12 is a better basketball conference than the ACC but that's a fact that needs to be measured after each season.
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Branson High junior guard N.J Gray is featured in this recent Frank Burlison article.
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"Judge Upholds Firing of Former Fresno City College Coach Ed Madec"
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Verbal Commits: "2027 Martin County (KY) G Braxton Keathley has received an offer from Pacific."
Keathley is a 2027 6-foot-5 combo guard.
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"How Emotional Intelligence Separates Leaders from the Rest"
"Skill can be matched. Resources can be copied. Even strategy can be replicated. But the ability to operate from values under emotional strain is far harder to duplicate. This makes emotional intelligence not just a leadership trait, but a competitive advantage. It influences how your team performs, how your peers view you, and how your opponents underestimate you."
This is a very underrated quality and asset.
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Boss Mhoon: "Blessed to say I have received an offer to Rutgers University!!!"
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Boss Mhoon: "Extremely blessed to have received an offer from the University of California Berkeley!!!"
The 6-foot-5 Mhoon is in the 2028 class and is ranked in the Top 20 by ESPN. He attends The King's Academy in Sunnyvale.
He ain't going 3,000 miles for a college at Rutgers' level of play, that's for sure. Not likely even heading to Berkeley. Stanford hasn't offered as yet but will. The national power programs will get involved sooner rather than later and my guess is that's where he lands. His brother is a very promising football talent.
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Brayden Williams 2027: "After a great conversation with Coach Ed Gipson I’m proud to receive an offer from San Jose State University."
He's a 6-foot-3 guard and labels himself "the best shooting guard in Texas." No wishy-washying there.
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Verbal Commits: "2028 McKinney Boyd (TX) F Benjamin Berrouet has received an offer from Sacramento State."
He stands 6-foot-7, weighs 225 and already has close to a dozen offers including Texas Tech and SMU.
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Verbal Commits: "2028 Carter (TX) F/C Terrell Jackson has received an offer from Sacramento State."
Jackson is going to be VERY big as already he stands 6-foot-8.
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Verbal Commits: "2028 Brewster Academy (NH) G Michai White has received an offer from Stanford."
He's a 6-foot-1 highly talented point.
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For what the Spartans received from Vasquez last season—2.1 points per game in 11 minutes a contest—the 'trouble' obviously wasn't worth it.
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"Nicknamed "Nate the Great," Thurmond stood 6'11" and was always willing to give his body up to prevent the opposing team's big man from getting buckets. A seven-time All-Star and a five-time member of the All-Defensive Team, Nate's reputation as one of the greatest defensive players of all time is set in stone."
"Great defensive center — tall, agile, understood how to play defense," Kareem said about Nate. "A lot of guys beat on me and said they played good defense. He actually did it. He made me earn my points."
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Alec Day: "Blessed to receive an offer from Menlo College. Thank you to Coach Montgomery and Coach Cascio for believing in me!"
Day is a 6-foot-4, 2026 wing attending Folsom High.
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Maximus VanLaningham: "Blessed to receive an offer from Long Beach State. Thank you to Coach Chris Acker and Coach Anthony Santos for believing in me."
He's a 6-foot-8, 220 pound, 206 prospect attending Woodcreek High.
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Verbal Commits: "California, Illinois and USC offered 2026 Phelps (PA) G Dionycius Bakare."
He stands 6-foot-5.
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Jake Lieberman: "Talented 6’6 2027 guard Zachary Downer out of Hodan Prep (Canada) tells me that San Francisco will be in this week to watch him practice. High major programs involved as Downer is leading an active recruitment, one that will continue to grow."