Jai Lucas knows Kentucky’s point guard situation is unsettled and is considering that legendary program as his next destination after announcing he was leaving Florida.
“You can obviously watch the [Kentucky-North Carolina] game and see where a point guard would help a little bit,” Lucas told KentuckySports.com. “They’re capable of being a good team. They’re missing [...]

John Wall, the No. 1 basketball recruit in the nation, and Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski had a phone conversation Monday night that could be the precursor to Duke offering Wall a scholarship.
“We talked about recruiting,” Wall said Tuesday in a text message.
Wall said he plans to take an unofficial visit to Duke, but it won’t [...]

Billy Gillispie stirred controversy last month when he held his Midnight Madness event at Kentucky a week early, on Oct. 10. St. John’s and Illinois also began their events early.
The NCAA’s board of directors is now ending that practice because it believes it could give schools a recruiting advantage.
The emergency legislation, passed Thursday, is designed [...]

Entering tonight’s MidKnight Madness event at Rutgers, SNY’s Adam Zagoria conducted a question and answer session with Rutgers 6-foot-11, 235-pound junior center Hamady N’Diaye, a native of Senegal. N’Diaye was named the regular season MVP of the Star-Ledger Summer League at Rutgers, where he averaged 11.7 points, 12 rebounds and 7.4 blocks.

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Sean Kilpatrick is headed to the Big East.
The 6-foot-5 shooting guard originally from White Plains, N.Y. committed to Mick Cronin’s Cincinnati club during an official visit over the weekend. Kilpatrick, now spending a postgraduate year at Fitchburg (Mass.) Notre Dame Prep, attended Cincinnati’s Basketball Fan Jam on Saturday and committed because he liked the [...]

Daniel Orton has trimmed his list. How far remains unclear.
Jeff Goodman of FoxSports.com reports it’s down to Kansas and Kentucky, while the Oklahoman says Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Ohio State are still in the mix for the 6-foot-11, 260-pound senior center from Bishop McGuinness High.
Orton, ranked the No. 3 center in the Class of 2009 [...]

Derrick Favors, a 6-foot-9 forward from South Atlanta High ranked the No. 1 center in the Class of 2009 by Rivals, has a final six of Georgia, Georgia Tech, UConn, Memphis, Kentucky and Florida State.
“When you have two outstanding in-state programs, it is always in your best interests to take a close look at them, [...]