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Arizona

Despite the loss of one future scholarship due to a recruiting violation, Arizona is still “battling at the highest level” for 2010 prospects Doron Lamb, Josh Selby and Kadeem Jack, a source close to the Arizona basketball program said. 

The source said Arizona would lose the scholarship for the 2011 class and would still theoretically have enough room for all three players should they elect to come play for the Wildcats.

The 6-4 Lamb (pictured), a Queens, N.Y. native playing at Oak Hill Academy, recently cut his list to Arizona, Kansas, Kentucky and West Virginia. A McDonald’s All-American, Lamb is expected to announce after the NCAA tournament.

St. Patrick

St. Patrick of Elizabeth (N.J.), the No. 5 team in the USA Today poll and the top team in New Jersey, could be banned from the upcoming state tournament for holding illegal practices before the start of the season, according to a report on The Star-Ledger’s Website.

The Controversies Committee of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, the state’s athletic governing body, is calling for a suspension from the states and a ban on head coach Kevin Boyle, the Ledger is reporting.

St. Patrick, which features Duke-bound point guard Kyrie Irving and junior Michael Gilchrist, considered the top junior in the nation, will learn its fate Wednesday when the NJSIAA’s executive committee meets in Robbinsville, N.J.

St. Patrick, which has retained attorney Kevin Marino, can appeal at that time. Marino declined comment to the Ledger.

Boyle did not immediately return a text message or pick up his cell phone. The team is traveling to California for a game Saturday against Woodland Hills (Calif.) Taft in the Mater Dei Nike Extravaganza.

Pittsburgh, Seton Hall, South Florida, St. John's, UConn, West Virginia

With his team set to visit Pittsburgh on Saturday in a critical Big East tilt for both teams, Seton Hall coach Bobby Gonzalez spent part of Thursday’s Big East conference call clarifying his decision to pull Jeremy Hazell with four minutes remaining in Tuesday’s 81-71 loss at No. 2 Villanova.

“There is a lot of misinterpretation, a lot of misinformation. I’m the head coach of this program and I make those decisions—not the athletic director, not the administration, not a prep school coach, not a high school coach. I make the decisions. There’s been a lot of confusion out there and I just want to make sure there is no confusion,” Gonzalez said of the decision to pull Hazell, who had 32 points in the game and is the second-leading scorer in the Big East.

“I didn’t take Jeremy out just because of shot selection. People think he missed some shots and I yanked him. What needs to be cleared up is Jeremy didn’t run back on defense, which is basically a cardinal sin.”

Old Knicks

NEW YORK (NBA.com exclusive) — Nate Robinson says he’s not about to make Chris Duhon the next Wally Pipp.

Even after Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni made the somewhat startling announcement that Robinson would likely be the team’s starting point guard “until he gives me a reason not to,” Robinson said he had no intentions of supplanting the struggling Duhon the way Lou Gehrig once famously supplanted Pipp at first base for the Yankees.

“Everybody heard of Wally Pipp, but that’s not Duhon. Duhon is our leader. He’s our captain and everybody goes through something. He was there for me when I went through my thing and I’m going to always be there for him,” Robinson said after starting at the point in the second half of the Knicks’ 107-85 come-from-behind victory over Washington and finishing with game-highs of 23 points and eight assists.

Read the full story at NBA.com. And for more on Dick McGuire’s passing….

Rutgers, St. Anthony, St. John's, St. Patrick, Villanova

VILLANOVA, Pa. — Sometime back before the World Series, Villanova coach Jay Wright and I made a bet.

He had the Phillies.

I had the Yankees.

Loser takes winner out for a cheesesteak.

I think we all know what happened next.

Behind Hideki Matsui, C.C. Sabathia, Mariano Rivera, Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter, the Yankees won their 27th world championship, returning to their rightful place atop the baseball hierarchy.

Jimmy Rollins and the Phillies? They went home, unable to defend their title.

Time went by and Jay and I were never able to go out together for the cheesesteak.

So Tuesday night I’m at the Seton Hall-Villanova game at The Pavillion, having just gotten a plate full of pasta and salad from the media dining room, when a nice young man approaches with a paper bag.

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