The Villanova Wildcats are national champions after Kris Jenkins (6'6''-F-93) swished a 3-pointer at the buzzer to beat North Carolina 77-74 in one of the great NCAA title games of all time. North Carolina's Marcus Paige (6'1''-PG-93) had just tied it for the Tar Heels when he adjusted in the air and rattled home a game-tying 3-pointer with 4.7 seconds left to make it 74-all. For Villanova, it is its first national title since 1985, when the Wildcats shocked Georgetown. At the half it was North Carolina 39, Villanova 34. The crowd at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas was announced at 74,340 - the second largest in NCAA tournament final history. Carolina coach Roy Williams was looking for his third national championship with the Tar Heels and the school's sixth overall, but just couldn't make it happen. In the semifinals, Villanova shocked the hoops world with a 95-51 dissecting of Oklahoma. The Wildcats set a record for margin of victory in a Final Four game. They held Oklahoma's Buddy Hield (6'4''-G-93) to just nine points. The Carolina-Syracuse semifinal game was never really in doubt as the Tar Heels won 83-66. The victory for the Tar Heels was their third this season over the Orange. Phil Booth (6'3''-G-95) led Villanova with 20 points. Jenkins finished with 14. Paige had 21 for the Heels (33-7) who came one shot short of giving coach Roy Williams his third national title. Courtesy of: fox61.com
UNC lands commitment from 2020 forward Day'Ron Sharpe - 1 day ago
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On Father's Day, Roy Williams got a welcomed addition to the Carolina family. Day'Ron Sharpe (6-8, 220), a rising junior at South Central High School in Winterville, verbally committed to North Carolina Sunday evening according to 247Sports. Sharpe is the first player in the class of 2020 to commit to UNC. He also had offers from Virginia, East Carolina, Old Dominion and Georgetown. As a sophomore he averaged 14.3 points and 9.3 rebounds for South Central, leading the Falcons to the 2018... [read more]
On Father's Day, Roy Williams got a welcomed addition to the Carolina family. Day'Ron Sharpe (6-8, 220), a rising junior at South Central High School in Winterville, verbally committed to North Carolina Sunday evening according to 247Sports. Sharpe is the first player in the class of 2020 to commit to UNC. He also had offers from Virginia, East Carolina, Old Dominion and Georgetown. As a sophomore he averaged 14.3 points and 9.3 rebounds for South Central, leading the Falcons to the 2018 East Regional. Sharpe plays AAU basketball with the Garner Road Bulldogs. Courtesy of: heraldonline.com
Report: One-and-Done rule could be eliminated for 2021 NBA Draft - 3 days ago
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The NBA is reportedly exploring the possibility of ending the infamous one-and-done rule that forces many potential professional basketball players to head to college for at least one season. According to a report from ESPN's Zach Lowe, citing a league memo sent to NBA teams late this week, the league office is indicating that 'eligibility rules' for the NBA draft could change as soon as 2021 or 2022 - but not earlier. The league is currently trying to figure out how the FBI's investigati... [read more]
The NBA is reportedly exploring the possibility of ending the infamous one-and-done rule that forces many potential professional basketball players to head to college for at least one season. According to a report from ESPN's Zach Lowe, citing a league memo sent to NBA teams late this week, the league office is indicating that 'eligibility rules' for the NBA draft could change as soon as 2021 or 2022 - but not earlier. The league is currently trying to figure out how the FBI's investigation into college basketball will play out while also trying to navigate the player development changes that would be needed for high school players to once again potentially enter the NBA. Recently, the NBA has started to allow its teams and front-office personnel to attend elite summer high school events as the Pangos All-American Camp and the NBPA Top 100 Camp both had an NBA presence to watch elite Class of 2019, 2020 and 2021 prospects. Lowe's report mentions that the one-and-done rule is not mentioned directly by name, but the NBA is trying to warn its teams before the 2018 NBA Draft. These future changes could be on the horizon and teams need to understand what they are doing with future draft picks in potential trades. The scenario of a 2021 NBA Draft in which high school players might be eligible is a fascinating subplot for college basketball, and the sport at-large, over these next few years. As Lowe pointed out in his report, whenever the rule is eventually opened up, it will create one large mega draft in which two elite classes of high school players would be draft-eligible in the same year. With potentially double the lottery-level and first-round talent of a typical NBA draft, it would force a lot of elite college recruits to exam the possibility of reclassifying up in order to get ahead of that mega draft and be in a pool with fewer elite prospects. It also gives the high school players themselves a unique decision with regard to their potential college futures. If an elite high school prospect is one year away from entering the NBA draft out of school, would some go to college or would they try to go for a postgrad year and follow in the footsteps of players like Thon Maker (7'1''-F-97) and Anfernee Simons (6'4''-G-99)? The expanding presence of the NBA's G-League is also a factor in all of this as salaries for the league are increasing and becoming more respectable - giving high school players a viable professional option in the United States instead of college for one year before moving on to the draft. There are still way too many moving parts to truly speculate how this will all go down. But at least we know that the NBA appears to be viewing 2021 or 2022 as the potential change to the one-and-done rule. We'll have to see how elite high school prospects start potentially adjusting to reclassify while colleges also might have to adopt some new and unique recruiting strategies if they rely on one-and-done players to fill out their roster. Courtesy of: nbcsports.com
Kentucky lands five-star point guard next season as Ashton Hagans reclassifies to Class of 2018, will enroll at UK - 3 days ago
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Ashton Hagans (6'4''-PG), the top-ranked point guard in the Class of 2019, has graduated high school and will now reclassify and enroll at Kentucky in time to play basketball for the Wildcats next season. It's a development that could make UK the preseason favorite to win the 2019 national title -- especially if Reid Travis, a graduate transfer from Stanford, also enrolls at Kentucky. Travis averaged 19.5 points and 8.7 rebounds for the Cardinal last season. He's expected to visit UK next... [read more]
Ashton Hagans (6'4''-PG), the top-ranked point guard in the Class of 2019, has graduated high school and will now reclassify and enroll at Kentucky in time to play basketball for the Wildcats next season. It's a development that could make UK the preseason favorite to win the 2019 national title -- especially if Reid Travis, a graduate transfer from Stanford, also enrolls at Kentucky. Travis averaged 19.5 points and 8.7 rebounds for the Cardinal last season. He's expected to visit UK next week. Hagans will highlight Kentucky's freshman class that now features four five-star prospects. Combine that with the return of PJ Washington, Quade Green and Nick Richards, and the expected arrival of Travis, and Hall of Fame coach John Calipari could have his deepest and most experienced team since his 2015 Wildcats advanced to the Final Four and finished 38-1. Kentucky is currently No. 4 in the CBS Sports Top 25 (and one). Courtesy of: cbssports.com
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