Jordan Loveridge to Utah

For those interested, the top state of Utah high schooler just gave a verbal to Utah. Lya Wodraska has some of the details, as does James Edwards.

Saturday's WAC hoops roundup

Bill Amis is headed to Eastern Europe. The video showdown with Zane Johnson will have to be postponed.

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Tony Jones reports that prepster Jordan Loveridge is no longer considering Utah State. However, what is incongruent (read the article) is that Weber State is still in the running despite its Big Sky Conference affiliation. Yes, Weber has been doing very well under Coach Randy Rahe but certainly no better than the Aggies. USU basketball needs to get to the Mountain West in order to pick off some of the higher level high schoolers, particularly the in-staters, Marcel Davis et al notwithstanding..

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Chris Murray has much more on southern California frontcourter Skylar Spencer.

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Last but certainly not least, Dayton (Mr. Multi-Media) Morinaga is back with another pair of posts here and here.

Jordan Loveridge checking out BYU

Alex Kline/The Recruit Scoop has posted this (of interest to USU fans):

"BYU will host Jordan Loveridge, a 2012 forward from Utah Pump N Run, for an unofficial visit today"

Alex is another one who should be a daily (or more) read. 

Josh Gershon on Jordan Loveridge and Nick "Jimmer" Emery

This one is for Utah State fans -- Josh Gershon writeups on a pair of USU recruiting targets (and others). You'll have to scroll a bit.

More Loveridge

Caught this on Rivals about Utah State target Jordan Loveridge:  

"At 6 feet 6, Loveridge is a bully of an offensive player with a versatile skill set. He uses his big frame and craftiness with the ball to punish defenders in the midrange. When the defense backs off, Loveridge has confidence in his three-point shot. On a given possession, he might beat the press with his ball handling and then give it up and post up for a score. In short, he is an offensive threat everywhere on the court."

We'll get to our evaluation of Loveridge this weekend -- PTW caught him in one game in Las Vegas.

Thursday and the world of WAC basketball

Here's more on the Jordan Loveridge lovefest. Plus yet another article on various state of Utah prospects.

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Josh Gershon tweeted this some time back:

"Jonathan Milligan picked up offers from St. Mary's and Fresno State. He has a favorite but won't say who."

Milligan is a 6-foot-2 2012 point out of Arizona. Here is tape on the young man.

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At the SCOUT Warriors Sports Network MB, craighoops posted this on the fourth page of this string (a partial cut-n-paste): "...Norvell Arnold posted on his Facebook Wall today (Wed.) that it didn't work out with HAWAII unfortunately, and that he remains focused on finding a School to play at in 2011 to work to Redeem himself..." while nychoopsguy later added this: "Norvell is my brother they just dropped the charges down monday as of august 8 there will be no felony charges yeah he made a mistake with the weed but the domestic charge with false that's why it was dropped down there's no need to call my brother a punk hawaii never contacted me or norvell someone told us hawaii might have some intrest in norv utah st jumped the gun they thought the charges would not get dropped down I can tell you this if norv gets a offer from hawaii he would take it just to stick it to utah st and win the wac in hawaii's last year and he can play right away with 2 years left"

nychoopsguy also posted another message later on in the string.

Hawaii makes a 2012 offer

Alex Kline/The Recruit Scoop tweeted this:

"Hawaii just offered Jordan Loveridge, a 2012 forward from Utah Pump N Run"

Here's an ESPN evaluation on Loveridge. 

Here's a June 2011 article on him.