Amile Jefferson chose to attend Duke yesterday afternoon and it brought a collective sigh of relief to Blue Devils fans across the country. While it was a major addition to the roster, it shouldn't erase the fact that before Jefferson's decision, the Blue Devils had one incoming recruit for the upcoming season.Getting kids to come to Duke certainly can't be easy, which is why a ton of credit must be given to Coach K for ...

When a highly-touted recruit from Philadelphia eliminates power programs such as Georgetown and Marquette from his list but keeps La Salle and Drexel, it only means one thing.Location is a huge factor.Rysheed Jordan, a 2013 point guard from Philly, has since cut both of those Philadelphia schools from his list. Nonetheless, their longevity as contenders for his services was a strong indication of his preference for staying close to home.He attends Vaux Roberts High School ...

In today's highly competitive recruiting environment, college basketball coaches will go to great lengths to gain an advantage, and that includes scouting and evaluating players at an extremely young age.It's no longer abnormal for prospects to be identified in seventh, eighth or ninth grade, and some schools, such as Southern California and Kentucky, have made scholarship offers to middle school athletes.I don't have a problem with coaches scouting young players, but so many coaches are highly ...

Amile Jefferson committed to Mike Krzyzewski and the Duke Blue Devils Tuesday evening, adding a new element to the teams' already talented roster.Jefferson adds athleticism to the Blue Devil fold. The Blue Devils have every other role on their team filled. They have plenty of shooters, ball-handlers and rebounders for next season.Coach K just needed a slasher to play on the wing, or power forward. Jefferson's lanky 6'8'' frame will provide that slashing presence to ...

Every story has a beginning, and every sport played is just another story.Not every program has a rich history steeped in tradition or an institution built on success, but the Kansas Jayhawks basketball team is one of those programs. The Beginnings of a Game The story of Kansas basketball does not begin in Lawrence, Kansas, funnily enough. Instead, 1,264 miles away and 151 years ago, the man who would create not only the first ...

Highly-touted forward prospect Amile Jefferson will be a Duke Blue Devil, which just goes to show that Duke is still one of the premier landing spots for the nation's elite players.Jefferson considered following in the footsteps of other super-freshman before him and joining forces with some of the nation's other top recruits at Kentucky, but at the end of the day the 6'7" forward chose the Blue Devils.Jefferson's decision is a great sign for Duke ...

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Amile Jefferson has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball at Duke, giving the Blue Devils one of the top incoming freshman in the country.Duke is getting exactly what they need in Jefferson—a power forward with well-polished skills that should be ready to play right out of the gate. Judging from his senior year stats in high school (19.9 PPG, 10.2 RPG, 2.7 SPG), Jefferson is going to be a force to be reckoned with ...

One of the running themes of the 2011-12 basketball season was the number of games defined by the players who weren’t on the floor. Although suspensions—Syracuse’s Fab Melo, UConn’s Ryan Boatright—played a part into that narrative, key players being lost to injury made for some of the biggest story lines of the season. Few injuries had such immediate (or obvious) effects as Duke’s loss of forward Ryan Kelly to a sprained foot. With the sharp-shooting ...

The Bernie Fine scandal has been odd from the get-go, but today it will reportedly take another twist.Laurie Fine, the wife of the former Syracuse assistant basketball coach, is set to file a lawsuit against ESPN.According to John O'Brien of the Post-Standard: Laurie Fine will announce this morning that she's filing a federal libel lawsuit against ESPN over its reporting of child-molesting accusations against her husband ... Fine's lawyers provided the 44-page lawsuit to The Post-Standard this ...