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At times patience is indeed a virtue but both Akili Daniels and Mayville State Coach Darren Tighe ultimately moved quickly in forming their partnership, resulting in Daniels becoming a Comet for the next two years. Accustomed to success while at Sacramento High and Chabot College, the 6-foot-2, 210 Daniels is joining a winning tradition. During Read More…
Chabot Basketball: “6’0 Soph G Micah Butler Webster (James Logan HS) has committed to (NAIA) San Diego Christian College and HC Dwayne Cosby! He averaged 5.8 points per game on 44% 44% and 70% shooting this season for the Gladiators. College of San Mateo Men’s Basketball: “Freshmen point guard Daniel Benjamin has accepted an athletic Read More…
6-foot-8 Jabari Sweet became a really wanted young man this year. Out of Sacramento High and a sophomore at Chabot College in Hayward, he averaged 12.8 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.0 blocked shots per game while shooting 52% overall?? this season (up from 8.8 points and 5.6 rebounds as a freshman). His size and that Read More…
“RICH SHAYEWITZ NAMED DIRECTOR OF BASKETBALL” Sonoma State University athletics Excellent choice, great person. Adrian Wojnarowski: “Free agent guard Tyler (St. Francis/Fresno State) Johnson has agreed to a deal with the Brooklyn Nets, sources tell ESPN.” Former Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep star Justin Love passes. More. Chabot Basketball: “Gladiator soph Akili Daniels 6’3 G/F has committed Read More…
“A Father’s Day tale: California high school basketball stars overcome family tragedies The memory of one dad, the presence of another lift Marsalis Roberson and Jalen Lewis to great heights” Mitch Stephens “[De’Jon] Davis Signs Pro Contract With Besiktas J.K.” Danny Cross, Assistant Director of Athletics Communications, California Baptist “CCS Senior of the Year JE’LANI Read More…
Still more signings and such. Chabot Basketball: “Gladiator Sophomore 6’8 F Jabari Sweet has committed to a full scholarship from Div2 Univ Of Hawaiʻi Hilo and HC Kaniela Aiona” Aiona, formerly of Menlo College, was recently named the Hawaii Hilo head coach. Sweet is out of Sacramento High. Mayville State (North Dakota) items: 5-foot-10 Jalen Read More…
“Norwood looks to leave mark as third ‘Jacks men’s basketball coach since 1980” Andrew Butler Noah Haynesworth is headed to UC Davis. Skyline College Basketball: “Congrats to Noah Haynesworth for earning the opportunity to continue his education & basketball career at UC Davis. Noah has been described as “best teammate ever” a lot over the Read More…
“Where was this support for Colin Kaepernick’s cause when he needed it?” Chris Murray Excellent points here. There’s a bandwagon now (finally) but it was close to crickets earlier. Kareem Clark has committed to Alabama State which recently hired former longtime NBA-er Mo Williams as head coach. Clark is 6-foot-3 and out of Capital Christian Read More…
Here are the Nor Cal All State JUCO honorees and their new college addresses. A few are still in process. MVPS — 6-foot-9 Miles Norris, City College of San Francisco; 6-foot-4 Michael Hayes, Las Positas College Norris transferred in from Oregon, spent a season at City College San Francisco and is headed to D1 UC Read More…
“MENLO COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL NAMES BRENDAN ROONEY AS NEXT HEAD COACH” MC athletics Now there is an opening at Cal Maritime. Jason Greenfield is the new head coach at St. Ignatius. “INDEPENDENCE CC STANDOUT JADEN MCCLANAHAN TRANSFERS TO UVU” Why weren’t the McClanahans D1-offered coming out of Salesian Prep? Did their respective skill sets improve Read More…
Verbal Commits: “Former Albany F/C Sasha French is transferring to Azusa Pacific (DII).” French is 6-foot-11 and out of Justin-Sienna High and Napa Valley College. Verbal Commits D2: “2020 Rolling Hills Prep (CA) G Troy Murphy, Jr. has committed to Dominican (CA).” He’s 6-foot-4 and out of the southern California prep ranks. Josiah Delacerda is Read More…
Finally. “Tae Norwood, 2018 National Assistant Coach of the Year, Hired to Lead Men’s Basketball” HSU athletics “Humboldt State’s Men’s Basketball Announces The Signing of Three to the Class of 2020” HSU athletics Coach Steve Ball has been busy adding new talent to his Napa Valley College squad: “NVC Men’s Basketball Receives Commitments from Seven Read More…
Just too many signings and such to ignore so we’ve popped back in with a ‘catchup’ post: Las Positas College hoops news: “Las Positas Sophomores Ready For Next Level Hawks basketball coach James Giacomazzi has been busy during the shutdown helping players land at 4-year programs” Matt Schwab Mayville State MBB: “GREAT NEWS keeps coming! Read More…
There are currently four openings for men’s college basketball head coach in northern California. Two appeared this month, two back in early March. Why the Humboldt State University (HSU) vacancy hasn’t been filled is a mystery, and harmful to the competitiveness of the program. Is there an issue with having to post the opening for Read More…
Joe Davidson: “The @SacHornetsMBB land transfer Zach Chappell from San Jose State. Skilled, playmaking and fun-to-watch guard out of Capital Christian HS played 60 games for San Jose State. He joins a nice roster for Sac State coach Brian Katz…” A first-class young man from a first-class family, he’ll redshirt this coming season. Digging into his Read More…
Devin Aye: “Extremely excited to announce the latest addition to the San Jose City College Jags…. Matt McAndrews! A former state champion at Archbishop Mitty, and California JC First Team All-State recipient! These Jags are for real!!” Here’s our lengthy 2017 feature on the 6-foot McAndrews. The Jags will certainly be fun to watch with Read More…
Out of Los Gatos High and with a redshirt season at USF followed by a year at Salt Lake Community College, 6-foot-7 Dylan Belquist is now moving on to Chico State. At SLCC in 2019-20, he averaged 3.7 points plus 2.7 boards in 11.5 minutes per game while shooting 38%, 21% and 58% respectively. His Read More…
Recruiting Simpson University Men’s Basketball: “Excited to add Daylon Potts out of Fresno CA to the frontcourt!” The 6-foot-6 Potts is out of Edison High, Cosumnes River College, Gavilan College and Lewis-Clark State. 6-foot-9 Raymond Hawkins to da Beach, aka Long Beach State. He spent his freshman year at Alabama. Hawkins played in only six Read More…
Recruiting Steve Schafer50: “COMMITTED!!! Welcome Deion Ellis to the Benedictine Mesa men’s basketball family!! Deion will be exciting to watch for Redhawk fans!” The 6-foot-5 Ellis played at McClymonds High, Cañada College and Gavilan College. Verbal Commits: “Former Penn G Ryan Betley is transferring to California.” He’s a 6-foot-5 grad transfer. More Also: Cal Rivals: Read More…
RECRUITING Jalen Patterson: “Glad to say that I’m furthering my education and basketball career at Arizona Western College!” The 6-foot-1 Patterson is out of Liberty Ranch High. Here is a Sacramento Bee February feature article. Salesian College Prep: “Congratulations to seniors Shane Bell and Jaden Lazo on committing to play basketball for the Cal State Read More…
“West grad earns highest state honor” Bob Brownne More coverage of Michael Hayes/Las Positas College honored as one of the California Community Colleges Men’s Basketball Coaches Association Players of the Year. “Meet The Bee’s All-Metro Girls and Boys Basketball Teams” Joe Davidson & Cameron Salerno Sheldon’s Xavion Brown and Josh Williams earned co-POY honors while Read More…
It may make take a village to raise a youngster, as the old proverb goes, but earning a D1 scholarship requires a solitary offer and Darrion Trammell recently was graced with such, said yes to the invitation and now has a basketball ride at Seattle University of the Western Athletic Conference. After providing 10.3 points Read More…
5-foot-11 freshman JoVon (Salesian Prep/Sheridan College) McClanahan has announced for Hawaii. He also possessed offers from Washington State, Cal State Fullerton, UC Santa Barbara, Montana State and Utah Valley State. McClanahan averaged 23.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 6.3 assists this season with a high of 50 points while shooting 48%, 45% and 88%. UH assists Read More…
Recruiting Jeff Goodman: “San Francisco’s leading scorer, Charles Minlend, is in the portal, source told @Stadium 6-4 junior guard averaged 14.4 points and 4.7 boards this past season. Will be a grad transfer.” Losing your top producer with a year of eligibility remaining really hurts — why the announcement now and not sooner once the Read More…
Recruiting “XAVION BROWN COMMITTED TO APP STATE” App State Mania Good for this young man. The athletic 6-foot-2 Brown checks every recruitment box except he isn’t a consistent shooter. The ‘coach talk’ about desiring toughness, leadership, someone who can defend and get into the key offensively, etc. falls a bit flat here. “JUMPING FROM D6 Read More…