• We will start off with an interesting article by Doug Gottlieb about how Syracuse and other schools have been successful recruiting in somewhat unconventional ways (ESPN Insider required, sorry).
• Louisville landed the big catch of the week when Chane Behanan committed to the Cardinals. Some Louisville fans have been predicting that Quincy Miller and Deuce Bello might be joining him, but it seems like the pair is still visiting other schools including Baylor.

Which way will Quincy Miller go?

• Don’t expect to see Bruce Pearl or any of his Tennessee assistants on the recruiting trail any time soon, but they still might be able to land big-time recruits like JaKarr Sampson (the controversial transfer from St. Vincent St Mary’s) and Tony Parker (not the one married to Eva Longoria).
• Matt Painter may have found a physical big man to build around for the future after picking up a commitment from power forward Jacob Lawson to play for Purdue.
• Rutgers has had a surprisingly successful recruiting season and added to it with the commitment of Myles Mack and has point guard Jerome Seagers leaning towards joining the Scarlet Knights although Seagers appears to have reservations about how it would work having two relatively short point guards playing in the same backcourt.
• Top 25 small forward recruit Shaquille Thomas, who weighs roughly half of what the other Shaq weighs, committed to Cincinnati over Seton Hall and UTEP.
• Meanwhile small forward Dominique Pointer, who is rated in a similar range to Thomas, appears to have narrowed down his choices to St. John’s, West Virginia, and Michigan.
• Late Night in the Phog appears the place to be on October 15th where LeBryan Nash and Ben McLemore have both said they will be to take another look at Kansas although neither has committed to the Jayhawks yet. The Jayhawks are also in the market for power forward Mikael Hopkins, who is still considering seven schools, but reportedly expects to commit by November 1st.
• IUPUI might be the next to cash in on the latest trend in recruiting–fathers getting their sons to play for them. This past recruiting season, two of the top recruits in the class of 2010 (Ray McCallum and Trey Zeigler) committed to mid-major programs (Detroit and Central Michigan) to play for their fathers despite having offers from bigger name schools. Ron Hunter (most famous for going barefoot to raise money for shoes in Africa) hopes that trend continues as he recruits his son R.J. Hunter despite having offers from schools such as Michigan State and Wake Forest.
• Super recruit/hype man Tony Wroten Jr. has announced that he will be announcing his choice of colleges in September or October and has narrowed his list down to five schools: Louisville, Washington, UConn, Villanova, and Kentucky.
• Last week we talked about how Georgia recruit Julian Royal had appeared to narrow his choice of schools down to Georgia and Georgia Tech with Wake Forest as another finalist although we doubted that he would ever don a Demon Deacon jersey. Now it looks like Paul Hewitt and Mark Fox are making the hard push as they both made home visits this week.

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