Lance Stephenson is focused on playing basketball, not talking about colleges.
“I don’t want to talk,” Stephenson told the Daily News for its high school basketball preview. “Just want to play.”
Lincoln remains the preseason favorite to win its fourth straight PSAL city championship next spring at Madison Square Garden. The Railsplitters return the 6-foot-5 Stephenson, 6-8 [...]

Since last Friday marked the official start of high school hoops practice in New Jersey, we recommend you check out this tremendous video piece on Dominic Cheek by Collin Orcutt and Michael Preston of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Orcutt and his colleagues worked on this piece for several weeks, following Dom through workouts, [...]

Here are a few quick notes from the world of college hoops and recruiting…
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski checked out John Wall, the No. 1 recruit in the Class of 2009 according to Rivals, on Friday night, according to Dave Telep of Scout. N.C. State coach Sidney Lowe was also in attendance for every game of [...]

Jim Boeheim says he made a mistake and his players covered for him.
Three days after beating defending national champion Kansas and 2006 and ‘07 champ Florida in back-to-back nights for the CBE Classic title in Kansas City, the weary Orange came home and played Virginia.
Syracuse downed the Cavaliers, 73-70, Friday night behind 15 points apiece [...]

Having completed his final official visit to Pittsburgh this week, Dominic Cheek has no timetable for making a decision but will sit down next week his coaches to discuss his options.
“Today [Friday] was our first day of practice so we’ve got to concentrate on St. Anthony right now,” Friars associate head coach Ben Gamble said [...]

Nearly everywhere Dominic Cheek goes, he seems to run into a former teammate.
At Kansas, it was Tyshawn Taylor. At Rutgers, Mike Rosario. At Pitt is is Travon Woodall.
Of the five schools still on Cheek’s list, three feature freshmen who played alongside Cheek last year on St. Anthony’s undefeated national championship team. Only Memphis and Villanova [...]

After 5 hours of watching college hoops tonight, I feel like I’ve just seen a couple of games in March Madness.
How good were those Notre Dame-Texas and Syracuse-Kansas games? Incredible action for November.
And a couple of impressive victories by the Big East.
Syracuse came from 13 points down in the second half to defeat defending national [...]

When defending national champion Kansas takes on 2003 NCAA champ Syracuse tonight in the final of the O’Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic on ESPN2 (10 o’clock), look for a couple of rookies with New Jersey ties to play a key role.
Freshman Marcus Morris, a Philly native who played at Apex Academies in Cherry Hill, N.J., [...]

Lots of holiday week action on the hardwood…
**No. 2 UConn beat No. 19 Wisconsin, 76-57, to win the Paradise Jam in the first ever meeting between the schools. Jerome Dyson led the Huskies with 21 points and 3 steals, former Rice standout Kemba Walker continued to excel by notching 12 points, 8 rebounds and 4 [...]

Dominic Cheek says he enjoyed his weekend official visit to Rutgers but is still open to the five schools recruiting him.
Cheek did not commit during the early signing period in November and will choose from among Kansas, Memphis, Villanova, Pittsburgh and Rutgers and sign in the spring.
Cheek spent Friday-Sunday at Rutgers watching the Scarlet Knights [...]