Ever since I discovered the site in 1999, RSCI has been my go-to recruit ranking site.  The idea is simplistically brilliant – take all of the college basketball recruit rankings, combine them together, assign each a point total, and get a fairly precise ranking of the top 100 high school seniors.  The mysterious Jeff C. [...]

So Illinois picked up a basketball recruit last week.  I wanted to write something at the time, but a little birdie had told me that Rivals and Scout would be updating their rankings this week.  And given that Mychael Henry was unranked by either service at the time, I wanted to wait until those rankings [...]

If you follow my Twitter, you know that I decided to join Bradley Beal and a host of Chaminade students in the Chaminade College Prep library for his college announcement.  By the time I returned from my backpacking trip on Sunday evening (I heard we played a few basketball games this weekend – how did [...]

Ah, Signing Day.  When every recruit is perfect.  No academic issues, no turned ankles, no Weber doghouse because they skipped class.  You can simply put a number next to a guy’s name and expect him to live up to it. And oh how I love those little numbers.  When you have a lot of them, [...]

According to this Sun Times Tweet, Nnana Egwu has chosen Illinois. Puzzle piece #2 of the sweet spot is now in place. Jerrance, baby. Jerrance. Rivals ranks Egwu as the #48 player in the 2011 class.  He’ll join Tyler Griffey, Stan Simpson, and Meyers Leonard in the frontcourt after Davis and Tisdale move on down [...]