Approximately 19 seconds ago, Mike Shaw announced that he has chosen the University of Illinois. This is big for three reasons:  1) It’s about time we won one of these drawn-out recruitments, 2) We’re now probably the 6th most talented team in college basketball for 2011/12, and we still have two open scholarships, and 3) [...]

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, [...]