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Report: John Wall to Kentucky [Update 10:10am]
Thank God the circus is over. Slam magazine is reporting that John Wall will sign a letter of intent to play basketball for John Calipari at the University of Kentucky. Link to ACCNow Considered the best point guard prospect in the country, Wall went to three different high schools in five years in the Triangle. He exploded onto [...]
Continue reading...John Wall Cited With Breaking and Entering (while hanging with Reggie Jackson!) [Updated 11:50am]
Monday, May 4, 2009
From WRAL: Prep basketball star John Wall, one of the nation’s top uncommitted prospects, was cited with breaking and entering. Authorities said Wall, 18, was charged with misdemeanor breaking and entering in connection with an April 27 break-in at a home at 3924 Laurel Glen Drive in Raleigh. An officer saw Wall leaving from the rear [...]
Continue reading...University Asks Student To Take Down Facebook Group “John Wall PLEASE Come to State”
Friday, April 10, 2009
NC State’s Director of Compliance asked a student Thursday to shutter his ‘John Wall to State’ group on Facebook. Michelle Lee, the Interim AD for Compliance, feared that the appeal violated NCAA recruiting rule 13.02.13: From the front page of today’s News & Observer: Thursday morning, N.C. State asked Taylor Moseley, a freshman, to shut down “John [...]
Continue reading...Calipari to Kentucky
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
When a school is committed to winning, they will do what it takes to hire the right coach. When a school has competent leadership, they are prepared to execute their job responsibilities at all times. When a school is competently run – like Kentucky, Alabama, Virginia and others – the hiring of a coach doesn’t take a [...]
Continue reading...Day of roster changes for Wolfpack BBall (3/24 Update @ 12pm)
Monday, March 23, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. – NC State head men’s basketball coach Sidney Lowe has announced that redshirt juniors Brandon Costner and Trevor Ferguson will forego their final year of eligibility, and not return to the Wolfpack in 2009-10. Joe Giglio at ACCNow has a more on the roster changes at this link. He also discusses the Wolfpack’s new [...]
Continue reading...Cousins to Memphis; Is John Wall Next?
Monday, March 9, 2009
SI.com has the news and SLAM has the quotes and the N&O has it on Monday. “Me and my family came to a decision after talking about it. We just thought it was the best place for me to be,” said Cousins this morning. “Everything about the school, the city, whole visit was impressive. I already [...]
Continue reading...Wiederer: ‘State Doesn’t Need Wall’
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Dan Wiederer of the Fayetteville Observer has an intriguing must-read column regarding the latest GlaxoSmithKline Holiday Invitational. Even if you are not interested in prep sports or college recruiting, take the time to read Dan’s impressions of incoming State and UNC prospects. Regarding Lorenzo Brown and John Wall: “Sure, it’d be nice to snag the [...]
Continue reading...Some Hoops Recruiting News
Monday, December 1, 2008
A Pack commit squared off Saturday against a player NC State would love to get… Lorenzo Brown scored 19 points and dished out eight assists but Centennial fell to No. 16 South Atlanta 88-77 Saturday at the Elite 8 Thanksgiving Hardwood Classic. In that game, undecided player Derrick Favors scored 29 points, nabbed 12 rebounds and blocked [...]
Continue reading...Coach Lowe’s radio interview + some recruiting
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
I generally skip any and everything that is related to Bomani Jones…but, I forced myself to listen to this interview because it was with Coach Lowe and I found it worth my time. So, I didn’t want to call it to your attention if you hadn’t heard it. Additionally, ACCSports.com/ACC Sports Journal is allowing free access [...]
Continue reading...Former recruit with various connections to NC State will transfer from UF
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
NC State is scheduled to face off on the hardwood with the University of Florida both this season and next season. One name that the Wolfpack will not be seeing in the series is that of Jai Lucas. It was announced today that Lucas is transferring from Florida. Florida guard Jai Lucas, the son [...]
Continue reading...John Wall to visit Duke this week
Monday, November 3, 2008
A couple of days after we told you that Duke was going to make a big push for John Wall… John Wall, the No. 1 basketball recruit in the nation, will likely take an unofficial visit to Duke later this week, possibly when the Blue Devils play Lenoir-Rhyne in an exhibition Wednesday.The 6-foot-4 Wall showed some [...]
Continue reading...Bob Gibbons Has a “Gut Feel” That John Wall Picks NC State
Monday, November 3, 2008
Speaking of carousels, there’s always the basketball recruiting one, and it never stops spinning. N&O/CO NC State beat writer Ken Tysiac posted a pair interesting quotes from hoops recuiting super-guru Bob Gibbons: Gibbons said he has a “gut feeling” that Wall will choose N.C. State rather than Memphis or Baylor. But he said even if Lowe doesn’t [...]
Continue reading...Kenny Boynton commits to Florida; Expect Duke to push for John Wall
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Link here Kenny Boynton, one of the nation’s top scoring guard recruits in the class of 2009, committed to Florida Thursday evening, choosing the Gators over Duke, Texas, USC and Georgia Tech. Additionally, I just ran across this article on the internet. “Duke has been calling my coaches and sending me letters. They are trying to get in [...]
Continue reading...Interviews with Favors & Wall
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Nice try to join the world of internet news coverage by ABC-11. You can click here to watch the interviews. Additionally, you can click here for some insight into Saturday’s events and a previous discussion of how the N&O dropped the ball on their coverage of Saturday’ practice.
Continue reading...Two Very Good Reasons To Attend Saturday’s Open Hoops Practice
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Derrick Favors To Visit Saturday, Attend Open Practice Coming up this weekend is a trip to N.C. State, which Favors said he’s looking forward to meeting John Wall, a 6-4, 175-pound guard out of Raleigh (N.C.) Word of God Academy (left) and the top recruit in the nation according to Rivals, said he wants to visit [...]
Continue reading...Brian Clifton Update
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Brian Clifton swears he’ll never be John Wall’s agent or profit from his expected stardom.You can believe him if you want. But if I told you the No. 1 high school prospect in America (Wall) was being coached on the summer circuit and advised in the recruiting process by a man (Clifton) who was a licensed [...]
Continue reading...John Wall’s coach calls 850 the Buzz(updated Sunday morning)
Saturday, August 2, 2008
The reports that John Wall has made a decision to follow Dwon Clifton to Baylor may be premature. On Dave Glenn’s afternoon talk show currently being hosted by Bomani Jones, Word of God coach Levi Beckwith called in to set a few things straight. This is definitely worth listening too as he talks about the [...]
Continue reading...John Wall(and Dwon Clifton) to Oklahoma St?
Thursday, July 24, 2008
So rumors Clark Francis… Speaking of Wall and Clifton, the word on the street is that the package will be delivered to Oklahoma State as soon as the “Live Period” for college coaches is over at the end of July when Clifton get the Director of Basketball Operations job with the Cowboys.
Continue reading...Lowe Lands Another ‘10 Prospect (Projected Roster Update)
Monday, June 30, 2008
ACCBasketballRecruiting.com – along with everybody else – is that point guard Ryan Harrow has committed to NC State joining consensus Top 20 high school star, CJ Leslie in the class of 2010. (Link here). Harrow – a rising junior from Marietta, Georgia – is a little shorter than his listing of 6′0 and weighs only 150 [...]
Continue reading...Wake Enters NCAA Tournament Discussion; State Mired in Point Guard Mess of Our Making
Monday, February 18, 2008
We set the stage in this entry last week that unless someone started claiming some scalps that the ACC would only have four participants in this year’s NCAA Tournament. Wake Forest’s big win yesterday over the Duke Blue Devils is exactly the kind of statement and scalp that the Demon Deacons needed to propel themselves into [...]
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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