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Saturday / November 23.

Terrence Jones to Sign Wednesday

Terrence Jones will sign a National Letter of Intent and financial aid papers Wednesday night, the last day of the spring signing period, according to his mother.

It remains unclear if the 6-foot-9 Jones out of Portland (Ore.) Jefferson will sign with Washington or Kentucky.

“Can’t say yet,” Linda Mashia-Jones wrote by text at about 7:45 p.m.

Jones made a verbal commitment to Washington during a press conference April 30 but never signed with the Huskies.

Speculation arose afterward that he was still considering Kentucky.

Asked if he would sign an NLI or financial aid papers, his mother said, “Both.”

Asked if he had signed already, she said, “No, he’s signing tonight [Wednesday].”

Linda added that Terrence stopped by the Washington campus Tuesday.

“Yesterday [he] rode up with a friend and stopped by UW to say hi,” she said.

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  • Desperate Measures = Intense and Impatient Moments. LOL

    Going to be a long next hour for fans of uk basketball, their hopes and dreams for the future are on the line.

    The SILENCE has been wonderful all day, kinda reminds me of the past decade.

  • This is pathetic. You put a story like this one and then all of catspause wets their pants for the next 2 hours until you get an answer. How am I supposed to check the stock market and get the latest news when you have 2000 KY fans grinding up their commodore 64’s to find out if they have a chance to go over 500 next year???? Those Commodore 64’s should be banned! They are usurping all the internet bandwidth!!!!

  • wow ….. it must be the Nimrod hour in here . lol . 35and 3 with the SEC championship and an elite 8 is no reason to be silent . With or without this kid Ky will do just fine . If I thought you had any cash I’d bet you a couple grand that Ky. finishes above .500 next year …without Jones . But like most Cal haters you’re broke , boring . and a babboon .

  • This is what I’m talking about!!!! Can you get on your ham radio…..or CB radio….or wait until working people go to bed before you get on and start this garbage???? Do your parents know you’re up causing this trouble????

  • LOL I know, TJ has gad uk fans sleepless the past 48 hours.

  • had *

  • Sigh…..this is sooooooooooooooo wrong……I have a kid wanting to bet me probably more cash than his dad will make in an entire lifetime of working in the coal mines while I am struggling to make sure I have enough stock set aside to pay the taxes I’ll have to pay to make sure the appalachian fund will have enough money to ensure he has a sandwich and a pint of milk to take in his lunchbox to school tomorrow…..sheeesh!

  • Jones announcing his decision late at night for the eastern media is an indication he’ll fit in nicely with the Pac 12 . If he signs with Washington he’s just another number in the late 1st round in a year or 2 . With Ky. and Cal he’s a lottery pick next year . Romar is a decent coach but he can’t put the big cash in his kids pockets via the NBA . This is the decision TJ is suffering on .

  • Cal is going to Chicago with LeBron, and Travis Ford is being mentioned as a replacement. In Chicago they reported seeing James house hunting.

  • “So basically you’re saying that it’s more important you get a bunch of red haired Alfred E. Neuman’s all flustered on here than I get my stock info? Thanks a bunch.

  • I heard Self was going to a girls only school in Arizona and was going to be the assistant coach next year. FEATHERFOG25 YOU NEED TO GET A LIFE. YOU ARE SCARED TO DEATH OF CAL. YOU HOPE FOR THE JAYHAWKS SAKE THAT HE DOES JUMP TO THE NBA. YOU KNOW AS LONG AS CAL IS AT KY-KANSAS WITH THE NEW COACH WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.

  • Theres that lil (rbkat) guy, good to see you back. Was affraid you did harm to yourself. LOL Why are you yelling now, are you that stressed out. Settle down and gather your emotions.

    Take a deep breath….

  • LOL uk fans getting fed up on catpause, starting to bash TJ now. This is more exciting than the Lakers/suns series.

  • he just signed financial papers for UK. per evan daniels twitter. so screw all you morons.

  • JUST ANNOUNCED IN KENTUCKY…TJ TO KENTUCKY!!!!!!!!!! HEAT YOUR HEART OUT-BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAL GET’S IT DONE…LETS SEE ALL THE COMMENTS BASHING CAL!

  • Jones signs with KY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaahhhahaaa

  • Cal rules the basketball world !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • If that’s true, they’ll get over 500 for next year…..now sign off those commodores and let the 21st century get on with their business!!!!

  • fear the phog you constantly set yourself up for failure. you, my friend, can bash all you want but it doesnt change the fact that you thought you knew but you were #wrongonpurpose

  • GO BIG BLUE!!!!

  • Its a sad night in Calhaterville

  • Welcome to Big Blue Nation T.J……..

    GO CATS!

  • phog- all you have left are the petty rumors about Cal and the NBA. make up all the sources and blogs that report he went to UW but he is headed EAST! so f#ck you

  • And Cal is with Dicky V. in Florida raising money for the V Foundation! And by the TJ signed a LOI…

    Enjoy the warm weather coach—be sure and check out some great recruits in Florida. We still have room to sign one more in 2010 and you already have the number 1 class for 2011…

    Wow! Wow! Wow! GO BIG BLUE!

  • phog is frantically searching the web right now with a picture of TJ in some vehicle and will later report its worth $1 million and how Cal offered him that for his services.

  • where have all the little people gone?

  • Hahahaha….The phog is yet wrong again!

  • losing 5 players ( 4 starters ) to the NBA …… and now these players coming ….hahahaha….. now THATS reloading

  • Good choice Terrence ….. you will be a multi millionaire in 30 months or less

  • Sorry, had a phone call. Sorry boys, still have to make it through the summer or next couple of weeks. Cal goung to the NBA will cost you Knight and Jones. Why you think he signed financial aid agreement instead of LOI?

    Will we actually see Jones play in Maui? Pehaps with UW? LOL

    Not out of the woods yet. I hope you like Travis Ford. Stay tuned…..

  • You do realize you’re arguing with posters who will have to get up for the 7:00 am 7-11 shift??? Good luck with this being a lasting debate……lol

  • Cats-Cats-Cats!

  • LOL I am not going to argue, look where the best recruiting class got them last season. Short of another final four for cal.

  • stick with your lame rumors phog, they’ve gotten you no where. but the sad thing is that NBA executives would call Cal, who is supposedly just a recruiter, and not Self who is the greatest coach to ever grace a basketball court.

  • FEATHERFOG–JUST GO AHEAD AND GO TO BED 🙂 LOL… LETS HOPE THE JAYHAWK RECRUITS GET YOU TO THE NCAA AND NOT THE NIT!

  • it got us farther than your “experience”. please reply to this. you keep saying that but yet your coach choked even worse to a program no one even knows about.

  • FEATHERFOG—JUST FOR YOU…THE REASON WHY HE PICKED KY. IT’S THE GLITZ AND GLAMOUR! THAT’S UK. THE BEST PROGRAM IN THE COUNTRY.
    AT MIDNIGHT MADNESS WE DONT DO SKITS. WE PLAY BASKETBALL WITH 24,000 TRUE FANS… ENJOY READING!!!

    http://scouthoops.scout.com/2/971221.html

  • C **** A **** T **** S ****

    Cats-Cats-Cats!

    🙂

  • I thought we wasn’t leaving the west coast like some Zona fans and others indicated? LOL

    I’m sure sooner or later the haters will be right about something.

  • Where will TJ go when cal goes to Chicago? He won’t be able to go to UW, and won’t want to stay at uk. KU is saving a scholarship for next year, but doubt Bill wants him. Kansas is already deep and talented. And how about Knight, would he end up at UCONN? Remember how it turned out for recruits when calimarii left Memphis for uk? We just have to sit back and see how it all works out. You guys don’t even know and the future is uncertain.

  • Very good pick-up for UK.

    He only signed financial papers, though, leaving things open just in case something happens.

  • Poor Washington, losing 2 top 10 players to Calipari! T Jones is a very talented basketball player but he’s also a giant douche. Holding a press conference to committ to one school and then signing with another. Real classy kid

  • Yea…UW definitely didn’t put Brandon Roy or Spencer Hawes in the NBA lottery or anything.

    Him going to UK or UW isn’t going to matter in where he gets picked. He’s super talented, and would probably get picked straight out of high school.

  • You were supposed to be deep and talented last year and you see where it got you…Self can not coach. Maybe you could Knight (Bob) to come coach at Kansas when Self leaves for that all girls school in Arizona. Stay tuned to when that story breaks.

    You think you know what the future holds for KU basketball—I know—playing second fiddle to UK. LOL 🙂

  • LOL Do you ever see me proclaiming Self as the best coach ever? Find me a post where I stated that, but he is a good very coach. Does cal have any titles or final fours? 😛 Will he ever have any? Can you say financial agreement?

  • Pure comedy…please keep it up

  • I’ll get off my Commodore 64 bit Intel Q8300 processor, 8GB RAM Computer now, I promise. I’m so happy, I could use an insult from fearthephog25 right about now!

  • An important factor to remember is that rankings are an inexact science, and there will be as many flame-outs as there are lottery picks.

    Let’s wait ’til every team’s recruiting class gets on campus at least before we start tooting horns.

    Good pic-up, and nice recruiting class

  • LOL Where did the #1 claass get you last year? You had the same amount of losses as KU. Like I said, wake me up when cal makes it to a final four. haha And the eastern conference finals with the biulls does not count. LMAO!!!

  • fearthephog25 said we went bargain shopping because he wants to be #wrongonpurpose(ltd KYsportsradio)

  • bigpapi, have the same sn on ky sports?

  • Ya, financial agreement to UK. I sure can.

  • Ya, but more wins…. fearthephog25 is #wrongonpurpose.

  • I’m too happy to care, right now, I can do all the worrying tommorrow!

  • Ty, you all too.

  • Cal has his type of players now …..long lean Gazelles who run the court …..quite frankly ..Darius Miller , Patrick Patterson , and Orton …would haver never been recruited by Cal ….we’ll see the ddm in full bloom next year . 40 and 0 not out of the question . god it must really suck to be a Cal hater . snickers

  • Why not? We have been doing it (tourney appearances) for nearly a quater of a century straight now. LOL Which is more than I can say for you guys.:P

  • You all know, that feeling, when you get done taking a really really big dump. Ya, that’s what it feels like for uk right now. Actually, I got a song for this occassion!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiBR6NC8pT4

  • You’re right, young teams do not wib championships.

  • LOL. I feel you on that.

    Gonna be a hellish frontcourt next year..

  • *pick-up. lol.

    Who is “you all?” I’m not supposed to have a favorite college team. Just go on what I know.

  • A great haul for UK in the Spring. It should set UK up for a good year. Fpr Cal to do this with all the NBA rumors swirling is just a miracle.

    It is unfortunate what happened between UK and UW in regards to Kanter and Jones. No matter how it is justified, it has to be a painful pill for UW fans to swallow and I hope our fans do not rub it in.

  • Orton was a top 10 player. He would have recruited him. Patterson was a top 15 player.Cal would have recruited him, too, and he actually did while at Memphis.

    DDM will still not be fully implemented this year. Look for 2011.

    An unbeaten season is out of the question; hasn’t happened in over 30 years, and UK had more talent last year than this year.

    4-5 losses or more is highly more likely. But, I guess everything is possible, so I digress.

  • I’m talking about Memphis, that’s your team right? Last time I checked they have will-the-thrill, joe jackson, and jelan kendrick. I would call that a great recruiting class.

  • Tj and Kanter will be better than Patterson and Cousins …..maybe not individual talent wise …but in Cal’s system …which is more important . Cousins is a head case ….which according to my sources Cal was disgusted with from game one on through the season .

  • Memphis is the team I help cover. Under the agreement I had with Rivals, I cannot wear any Memphis gear or pledge my support for them in a public manner.

    I have to be an unbiased, respectable sportswriter…LOL.

    But yes, that is a very good class. Don’t forget about Tarik Black, Hippolyte Tsafack, Chris Crawford(a kid who I can promise is a MAJOR sleeper, and will blow up in college), Antonio Barton, and Charles Carmouche.

    Trevor Mbakwe is looking very hard at transferring to Memphis. That’d be a huge pick-up for the Tigers.

  • LOL. These the same sources that told you Xavier was going to UK after enrolling at Kansas?

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