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BIG EAST NEWS & NOTES (8/8/2007)

August 8, 2007

Well, a late start today (and a posting error that is now fixed), but still an informative update nonetheless. Hopefully not too much of it is old news by now.

CollegeHoops.Net continues their preview of the top 144 teams of 2007-2008 in 144 days and a Big East team checks in at #99 today. Doug Wiggins has learned that versatility is the key to opportunity, but also brings confusion, but it is his ticket to playing time behind AJ Price and Jerome Dyson this coming season. Marquette will have an early opportunity to prove themselves worthy of some of their preseason hype in Maui, and they are eagerly awaiting that opportunity, already!

Illinoi Prep Bulls-eye takes a closer look at Iman Shumpert’s recrutiing drama of the past few weeks and reports on a DePaul commitment that is headed to a new high school. Also, another Big East school is welcoming Mookie Jones to their campus this weekend. Darryl Bryant has rebounded from a knee injury that sidetracked his summer last year and veteran Xaverian HS coach jack Alesi has seen transfer worries turn his summer into a bummer.

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CollegeHoopsNet.com has entered into their top 100 in their preview of 144 teams in 144 days and a Big East team sits at #99: #99 Cincinnati Bearcats. Joel welser has the Bearcats pegged for 12th in the conference.

The teams previously profiled by Welser in the series include:
#107 DePaul
#131 St. John’s
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The NY Daily News has an article on recent West Virginia-commit Darryl Bryant as last season’s knee injury hasn’t stalled the 6-0 point guard who resides in Bedford-Stuyvesant and suits up for Oliver Antigua’s St. Raymond’s Ravens program in the powerful NYC CHSAA. Instead, Bryant has Kept on Truckin and used a solid summer touring with the NYC Gaucho AAU program into a Big East scholarship.
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Jack Alesi, head coach at Xaverian High School in NYC, has set several players to the Big East in recent years: Chris taft, Levance Fields, Brian McKenzie. He also was slated to have two promising Big East prospects for the 2007-2008 season in James Padgett (2009) and Patrick Jackson (2008) who is considering Seton Hall, Rutgers and St. John’s, among others. However, Transfer Worries A Summer Bummer for the veteran coach of the Clippers.
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As we posted late yesterday afternoon, Iman Shumpert Down to Three Schools (Illinois Prep-Bullseye), but that is not the whole story lately.

Anyway…the important part for Marquette fans, you are one of the three and he was on campus yesterday in what Illinois Prep-Bullseye calls a visit that could end up having a huge impact on Shumpert’s final decision.
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2009 DePaul Recruit Cully Payne to Transfer from Burlington Central (Ill. Prep Bulls-eye) to Schaumburg High School in Schaumburg, IL according to Mike Weinstein, who is Payne’s AAU coach with the 17-Under Rising Stars. Payne and his family are moving to Schaumburg, which made Cully’s decision to attend Schaumburg High School a no-brainer. Payne will now play for head coach Bob Williams.
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Peekskill (N.Y.) High has produced NBA standouts Elton Brand and Hilton Armstrong, and the next star player looks to be 6’6 forward Mookie Jones who had an eye-opening summer playing for the Westchester Hawks on the AAU circuit. Jones had been slowed previously by a knee injury, but showing coaches he was fully healthy, he dominated at times with his versatile game that translates very well at the college level. Long-time suitors like Rutgers, Syracuse, St. John’s, DePaul, Louisville and West Virginia of the Big East remain in the hunt, but they have company from another Big East power as Jones Will Visit UConn (zagsblog) for a team camp this weekend. The UConn visit might be just one of many in the month for Jones.
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With the Maui Invitational Brackets now set, the Marquette Golden Eagles have plenty to look forward to as possible dates with either LSU or Oklahoma State and Duke could wait in the wings on the island. As a projected top 10-15 team should, the Eagles are Eager to Light Up Maui (journal-Sentinel) come November. The other four teams participating are the host school Chaminade (MU’s opening round opponent), Princeton, Arizona State and Illinois.
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Doug Wiggins learned that versatility was needed to find time in the UConn backcourt as a freshman. With AJ Price and Jerome Dyson slated to start ahead of him once again this season, that versatility will be needed again for Wiggins to earn playing time at either position in the backcourt and force UConn head coach Jim Calhoun to Make Room for Wiggins (Hartford Courant).
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