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Carl Jones Steps Up

Carl Jones made big strides on the national AAU circuit this weekend at the King James tournament in his hometown state of Ohio. Jones has long been on the radar for Michigan but has looked thus far to be someone right on the border between...

Tyler Koch to Wright State

Another recruit off the board, this one is 09 Tyler Koch who’s name had been thrown around a little bit lately. Koch committed to Wright State today. This is a fun time for 09 recruiting as there is lots of new names thrown around and...

More on Miles Plumlee

The Citizen Times has an article about Plumlee being released from his LOI at Stanford. There are a couple of quotes worth noting: Indiana, Miami, Northwestern, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Virginia and Xavier were among the programs that initially offered Plumlee a scholarship before he committed...

Quincy Roberts to St. Johns, Kecman to OSU

Johnny Jungle has announced that Quincy Roberts will hold a presser Tuesday (hat tip: East Coast Bias) to announce his intentions to attend St. Johns. It had appeared that the chances of Quincy ending up at Michigan were slim to none lately but this is...

Keegan Bell to UTC

Keegan Bell has decided to attend the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. I talked about Bell having interest in Michigan but the talks seemed to sputter out because there was never much more written about him and U-M. Hopefully this is the only transfer news that breaks...

AAU Notes 4-27-2008

Just a few notes from the AAU circuit this weekend from Rivals. The report is encouraging on Jordan Morgan and it is very hard to get a grip on the other Michigan instate big men. I’ll keep my eye out for other information on other...

Bye Bye Ekpe?

Lacy has the latest on Ekpe, nothing is official but Lacy caught up with Udoh’s AAU coach and it doesn’t sound good: Udoh’s former AAU coach in Texas, and he might have given me a clue. When reached on his cell phone and asked to...

Jordan Morgan Invited To NBAPA Top 100 Camp

Congrats to Jordan Morgan for receiving an invitation to the NBAPA camp which features the “top 100 juniors and sophomores in the country”. The camp is scheduled for June at the University of Virginia and will give Jordan a chance to keep working on his...

Nikola Kecman

A new recruit lists Michigan…. Link (halfway down the page). Did I mention that we need big men? The 6-foot-9, 220-pound Kecman – who is from Belgrade, Serbia – averaged 13 points a game and helped Eastern Arizona to a fifth-place finish in the national...

Wednesday Links

Larry Wright Update Lacy has the latest. UM’s if they want him? Beilein making progress with top 100 prospect Latest on Darius Morris from RivalS ($) Year In Review: Larry Wright East Coast Bias looks at Wright’s season at St Johns. Some great info and...

Transfer Watch: Larry Wright

There is another new transfer to pay close attention to the next few days and weeks and his name is Larry Wright. Wright, a former Saginaw High School guard is transferring from St Johns. Wright just finished up his sophomore year and has announced that...

Updated 2009 Hotboard

Made a few changes to the hot board. Removed a couple names and added a few. Also added a few tidbits and links to a few profiles. I will try to update the hotboard much more often over the summer when recruiting starts picking up...

Manny Harris Throwback Video

AAU/Recruiting Saturday Open Thread

I’m going to post some AAU notes throughout the day hopefully. I think I am going to miss most of Jordan’s game but hopefully those that watch can post comments in this post. Not really sure how best to cover these AAU tournaments so I...

Jordan Morgan Blog II: Toledo, Boo Williams and Pump Brothers

The King James team and I are playing well so far. In Toledo we ran through pool play and the bracket only to fall to the Michigan Mustangs in the championship game. Our team showed some problems with fatigue in the final game with two...