If you haven’t been able to tell by reading my basketball ramblings, I’m an “it’s 81% recruiting” guy. Bring in 10 RSCI Top-100 recruits, you’re headed to the final four. Bring in 5, look for a Sweet 16. 2, and you’re struggling to make the tournament. Coaching smoaching, just give me talent. When I say [...]
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 [...]
