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Articles, Player Blogs, SNY Invitational

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Shavar Newkirk, one of the top point guards in the Class of 2014, will be playing in the SNY Invitational this weekend with Cardinal Hayes. They face Long Island Lutheran on Friday, with the winner advancing to Saturday’s championship against the St. Anthony-Boys & Girls winner. Here’s Shavar’s first blog entry:

Hello, basketball world. This your boy Shavar Newkirk.

I first want to thank Adam Zagoria for the opportunity for the basketball world to get to know me.

I’m from Harlem, New York. I go to Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx. I’m having a good season so far, averaging 17 points a game and my team is winning. (We hope for a City & State Championship.) Let’s Go Hayes! Lol.

I’m looking forward for my team to play in the SNY Invitational tournament on January 25 and 26, 2013, along with St. Anthony, Long Island Lutheran and Boys & Girls.

Articles, Kansas

The draft stock of Kansas redshirt freshman Ben McLemore is soaring.

The 6-foot-5 McLemore went for 33 points, including a game-tying 3-pointer with 1 second left in regulation, as Kansas beat Iowa State, 97-89 in OT, at Allen Fieldhouse.

McLemore finished 6-of-6 from beyond the arc and 7-of-7 from the line. His 33 points were  just two shy of the Kansas freshman single-game record set by Danny Manning.

For the season, he’s averaging 16.9 points and 5.3 rebounds and is in the mix for National Freshman of the Year honors.

Articles, Rutgers

NEW YORK — Dane Miller says he’s never looked at Madison Square Garden the same way since his father died.

The last time Miller saw his dad, Dane Miller Sr., alive and healthy was when he was in attendance for North Carolina’s 23-point victory over Rutgers on Dec. 28, 2010.

A year and half went by and then the news came that Miller Sr. was in the hospital coping with a stroke. Dane visited him a couple times, but his father wasn’t responding, and two days later, “We finally pulled the plug.”

“My dad passed away a summer and a half ago so it was always tough to come back and play because the last time I saw him was here when we played North Carolina,” Miller told SNY.tv exclusively after he put up 11 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists as Rutgers beat St. John’s, 58-56, at the Garden. “So it was always tough to come here and look across the court and see where he sat.

Articles, Rutgers, St. John's

NEW YORK — St. John’s-Rutgers doesn’t have the same cachet as St. John’s-Georgetown, St. John’s-Syracuse or even Rutgers-Seton Hall.

Still, the two schools are local rivals who managed to draw a pretty good crowd to Madison Square Garden for Rutgers’ 58-56 victory Wednesday night.

Two years from now, they will be in different leagues, with Rutgers headed to the Big Ten and St. John’s to the new Catholic 7 amalgam.

But both schools said they would consider keeping the local rivalry going in non-conference games beginning in 2014.

Knicks

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Carmelo Anthony has been suspended for one game without pay for confronting Boston’s Kevin Garnett in the arena tunnel, near the players’ locker rooms, and in the parking garage following the Celtics at Knicks game Monday, the NBA announced.

“There are no circumstances in which it is acceptable for a player to confront an opponent after a game,” NBA Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations Stu Jackson said. “Carmelo Anthony attempted to engage with Kevin Garnett multiple times after Monday’s game and therefore a suspension was warranted.”

Anthony traveled to Indiana Wednesday with the team, but will serve his suspension Thursday when the Knicks play the Pacers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

Articles, Kentucky, Recruiting

Tyus Jones, the top point guard in the Class of 2014, will take an unofficial visit to Kentucky this weekend.

“Yes, leaves Friday,” Zach Goring, Jones’s high school coach at Apple Valley (MN), told SNY.tv.

Kentucky hosts Texas A&M Saturday at 4 p.m.

The news was first reported by KYSportsRadio on Twitter.

Goring said Jones has no other visits scheduled at the moment.

Articles, Rutgers, St. John's

The Big East basketball season has just begun, but make no mistake, this is a critical time for both Rutgers and St. John’s.

Both teams were picked to finish in the lower half of the conference standings — and are ranked No. 10 and 11, respectively, in the SNY.tv Power Rankings.

But both need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps with new league affiliations looming ahead.

Rutgers is moving to the Big Ten, likely in 2014, and needs to demonstrate before then that it is more than a Big East bottom-feeder. In short order, the Scarlet Knights will have to compete with the Indianas, the Ohio States, the Michigans and the Michigan States on a nightly basis.

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