Add Keith “Tiny” Gallon to the growing list of big-time Class of 2009 players who will likely wait until the spring to sign.
Asked when he might commit, the 6-9, 290-pound forward from Humble, Texas, wrote in a text message, “Probably late.”
“I just want to focus on winning a ring,” said Gallon, the No. 5 center and No. 31 player in the Class of 2009 out of Oak Hill Academy.
With Cincinnati’s surprising 26-23 overtime upset of No. 20 West Virginia Saturday night, there is now a three-way tie atop the Big East.
Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and West Virginia are all 3-1, with Rutgers a 1/2 game back at 3-2 following its 35-17 rout of Syracuse. UConn is 2-2.
West Virginia had been the lone unbeaten team before Saturday’s loss.
“As everybody has said all year, I think any team can beat any other team in our league and that makes for some real interesting football,” Rutgers coach Greg Schiano said Sunday in a conference call. “And there’s a lot of football left to play in our league, so I think everyone’s going to have to sit back and see how it unfolds.
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Dominic Cheek skipped his official visit to Pittsburgh this weekend after having a root canal last week.
“Dominic didn’t go,” said St. Anthony associate head coach Ben Gamble. “He had a root canal Thursday so we kept him home. He had it Thursday afternoon, so we cancelled the trip.
“He would’ve been sick and it wouldn’t have been fair to Pittsburgh.”
Tyler Hansbrough is on the mend, but likely won’t play for No. 1-ranked North Carolina for at least a couple of weeks.
Gene Hansbrough, Tyler’s father, told Jeff Goodman of FoxSports.com that his son “can’t feel the sore spot [in his right shin] anymore.”
Hansbrough, the 2008 national college basketball player of the year, was diagnosed Oct. 31 with a stress reaction condition in his right shin that would cause him to sit out “indefinitely.”
John Wall, the No. 1 basketball recruit in the nation, said he won’t visit Duke on Saturday despite a source close to the situation saying it was a possibility.
“I’m not going today,” Wall said in a text message.
Wall and Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski spoke by phone earlier this week and Wall said he planned to visit the campus, which is 30-40 minutes from his home.
With Kenny Boynton having picked Florida, Duke has now targeted the 6-foot-4 Wall to potentially replace Greg Paulus.
Wall, out of Raleigh (N.C.) Word of God, is also considering Kansas, Baylor, N.C. State, Miami, Memphis and Oregon State.
For a brief moment there, it appeared basketball fans might see two legendary Lincoln High School players from different generations pair up in the backcourt.
Stephon Marbury and Lance Stephenson — “Starbury and “Born Ready” — together for the first time? At least for a quick minute in practice.
Seriously, Marbury said he might go back and practice with his old high school team in Brooklyn, the one he led to the 1995 city championship, now that he’s been declared inactive by the Knicks.
But that delicious scenario dried up Friday when the Players’ Association advised Marbury against running with the Railsplitters.
“They didn’t think it was a good idea,” Marbury told Frank Isola of hte Daily New during Friday’s shoot-around in Washington. “I’ll probably go to the practice and just watch.”
