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Rutgers, Seton Hall

With the NCAA early signing period for basketball now a couple of days old, Seton Hall and Rutgers both announced the signings of players from the Class of 2010.
 
Seton Hall coach Bobby Gonzalez announced that Fuquan Edwin of Paterson, N.J., has signed a National Letter of Intent with the program.
 

The 6-foot-6, 205-pound small forward will join Seton Hall sophomore point guard Jordan Theodore as the second Paterson Catholic alum coached under PC coach Damon Wright.  Edwin is currently starting for the Cougars in his senior year.

“We are very excited about the signing of Fuquan Edwin,” Gonzalez said.  “He’s a very talented, multi-position player that will fit perfectly.  I think he’s going to have an excellent senior season and will be one of the top four or five players in the state of New Jersey.  Every time we see him, he gets better and better.  We love the fact that he can get out on the wing and just score the basketball in a variety of ways.  Fuquan is coming off a tremendous summer and we think he’s going to be a real steal for us to add him to our family for 2010-11.”

Duke, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tobias Harris, UCLA

Sometime after 4 o’clock Eastern Friday afternoon, Harrison Barnes is going to make some college basketball program very happy by announcing on ESPNU.

We don’t know which program because Barnes is keeping his cards very close to the vest.

Barnes, ranked No. 2 in the Class of 2010 by Rivals and out of Ames (Iowa) High, will announce from among Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, Oklahoma, UCLA and hometown Iowa State.

The smart money says it’s either Duke or North Carolina.

“I would say I’ve just scratched the surface of how deep that lies,” Barnes told the Des Moines Register in reference to the hatred between those two Tobacco Road programs. “I kind of expected it would be that way, because they’re two of the top programs in the country and they’re only miles apart.”

John Wall, Kentucky, NBA Coaching Changes, Old Knicks

Sometime on the evening of June 24, 2010, NBA Commissioner David Stern could well utter the following words…”With the first pick in the 2010 NBA Draft, the Utah Jazz select John Wall of the University of Kentucky.”

Of course, the team that could really use Wall — just named to the Bob Cousy Award Watch List — and his transcendant abilities is the New York Knicks.

And the Knicks — off to a dreadful 1-8 start — could well earn the right to select the 6-foot-4 Wall with the top pick. Several mock drafts project Wall as the No. 1 pick next year, ahead of Derrick Favors, Ed Davis and Greg Monroe.

There’s just one problem.

Houston, Maryland, St. Anthony

Ashton Pankey, a 6-foot-9, 225-pound power forward from St. Anthony, plans to make his college announcement on Monday and sign his Letter of Intent Tuesday during a ceremony at the Jersey City school.

Four St. Anthony players will sign that day: Pankey, Devon Collier (Oregon State), Derrick Williams (Richmond) and Elijah Carter (St. Bonaventure).

Two years ago, Bob Hurley’s team sent six players to the Division 1 ranks: Mike Rosario (Rutgers), Travon Woodall (Pitt), Jio Fontan (Fordham), Alberto Estwick (Fordham), AJ Rogers (St. Joe’s) and Tyshawn Taylor (Kansas).

Pankey visited Maryland last weekend and heads to Houston this coming weekend. He will then choose between the two.

“After that I’m going to decide between the two. I’ll probably sign by Tuesday,” said Pankey, a Bronx, N.Y. native.

Old Knicks

***Al Horford had 25 and 9 and Josh Smith 22 and 12 as the Hawks gave the Knicks their 5th straight loss. Read about it here.**

NEW YORK — Jamal Crawford says the Knicks would have made the playoffs last season had he not been traded to clear salary cap space.

“Yes, we would’ve made the playoffs last year. I think 37, 38 wins is the playoffs last year. We would’ve got there,” Crawford said Wednesday before his Atlanta Hawks met the Knicks at MSG.

The Knicks finished 32-50 last season and haven’t made the playoffs since the 2003-04 season.

Crawford was traded Nov. 18 to Golden State for Al Harrington and subsequently dealt to Atlanta in a draft-day deal.

“It was the best start in the last 10 years for the Knicks,” he said of last year’s 6-3 start. “My only regret was that I was here through the roughest times. I just wanted to be here when things turned around. And that was the thing that bothered me the most.”

Seton Hall

The New Jersey State Police are processing Keon Lawrence’s blood test results and, depending on what those results yield and a number of other matters, Lawrence could play again this season for Seton Hall, sources said.

“They [the blood test results] have not come in,” Sgt. Stephen Jones of the New Jersey State Police said Tuesday by phone. “They went to the state police lab today [Tuesday] to be processed. Those results will be forwarded back to the trooper and the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. They are not going to be released to the public.”

Lawrence and his attorney, Clifford J. Minor of Newark, are entitled to see the results once they come in. Minor did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.

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