NorthStar Basketball is running a Top 120 College Showcase Oct 5. at the Mercer County Indoor Facility at the Mercer County Airport in Mercer, NJ.
The event will feature skills/drills/guest speakers and NCAA recruitment seminars. Division 2 and 3 coaches will be in attendance. Cost is $125 per player. Register online at www.northstarbball.com

Twenty-four hours after the Boost Mobile Elite 24 event at Rucker Park, Nike will host a High Elite Youth All-Star Game at Goat Park.
The day will feature several games, and some of the top prep players in the area are slated to attend: North Carolina commit Dexter STrickland of St. Patrick (pictured) and Villanova-bound Maalik [...]

There are some last-minute roster changes for Friday’s Boost Mobile Elite 24 event at Harlem’s Rucker Park.
Jereme Richmond is unable to play due to state rules/compliance and is being replaced by Syracuse commit Dion Waiters from Philadelphia. St. Patrick of Elizabeth standout Michael Gilchrist is out for undisclosed reasons, and is being replaced by Memphis-bound shooting [...]

Chauncey Billups and Kenny Anderson will coach in the Boost Mobile Elite 24 event Aug. 22 at Rucker Park. Billups will coach the Blue Team/Skip to My Lou with Lincoln coach Dwayne “Tiny” Morton and Anderson will coach the White Team/The GOAT with Cardozo coach Ron Naclerio.
The game will air live on ESPNU at 8 [...]

I just got off the phone with Dexter Strickland and the North Carolina-bound guard said he and his USA 2009 team lost to the USA 2010 team, 95-92, in the championship game of the adidas Basketball Experience in Dallas.
Brooklyn’s Lance Stephenson of the 2009 team (pictured) led all scorers with 34 points after missing the [...]

Here are some highlights from Day One of the Las Vegas tournaments…
**In a matchup of highly ranked guards at the Reebok Summer Championships, Team Breakdown knocked off the Northwest Panthers, 85-73, behind 37 points, including 6 3-pointers, from Kenny Boynton (pictured) and 22 from Brandon Knight. Abdul Gaddy scored 26 for the Panthers and Avery [...]

PATERSON, N.J. — When 16-year-old David Anderson learned he was going to be coached by an NBA player this summer, he couldn’t help but get excited.
When he found out it was Rockets guard Rafer Alston, a fellow Queens, N.Y. native, Anderson was thrilled.
“When they told me it was Rafer, I was like, ‘I’m cool with [...]

Fordham’s 2009 recruiting class is looking better and better.
Chris Gaston, a 6-7, 205-pound  forward from St. Anthony in Jersey City who’s committed to Fordham for 2009, was named MVP of the Triple S Harley Davidson Shootout at West Virginia after leading the New Jersey ShoreShots to a 71-60 victory over the King James Shooting Stars in Wednesday’s final. [...]

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. - The Juice All-Stars and the New York Panthers were the big winners at the Reebok Summer Classic East at Rider University.
Juice downed the New Jersey ShoreShots, 75-70, in the U17 final behind 18 points apiece from Lincoln’s James Padgett and Curtis Loving of Wadleigh. Keith Spellman of Jefferson added 15 points. 
Chazz Williams, a Hofstra-bound point [...]