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Recruiting

MalachiBy ADAM ZAGORIA and JACK LeGWIN

Malachi Richardson has cut his list to six schools.

“My list cut to 6 NO ORDER : Villanova , Rutgers , Arizona , Indiana , Syracuse and Uconn,” he Tweeted.

The 6-foot-5 Richardson cut North Carolina, Ohio State, Georgetown, Florida, Miami and Kansas.

He visited Villanova Aug. 28 and was at both Indiana and UConn in October. On Tuesday, he will attend the Indiana-Syracuse game at Syracuse on an unofficial visit.

Richardson transferred back to Trenton Catholic after helping Roselle Catholic win the New Jersey Tournament of Champions title last season alongside incoming Syracuse freshman forward Tyler Roberson. He will take a visit there on Tuesday.

Kentucky

Brooklyn native Dakari Johnson will return home when No. 3 Kentucky meets Providence Sunday night at Barclays Center.

The 7-foot Johnson was born in Brooklyn before his family moved to Kentucky and then to New Jersey, where he played at St. Patrick High School for former coach Kevin Boyle.

“Yeah, I’m looking forward to it a lot,” Johnson said Friday at Kentucky. “My whole family’s coming, so it’s very rare for them to come see me play. They don’t come to see me play a lot, so I’m real excited just to go up there and play in front of them.”

USC, UTEP

UTEP coach Tim Floyd didn’t pull any punches regarding USC’s Andy Enfield Thursday night.

Floyd, who coached USC from 2005-9, ripped into Enfield for his comments about El Paso, Texas in a recent Men’s Journal article and his involvement with top recruit Isaac Hamilton.

“I damn didn’t sure appreciate the comments that he made last week publicly about the city of El Paso, Texas, where my grandparents were born and raised, where my father was born and raised and played at Texas Western,” Floyd said Thursday in Paradise Island, Bahamas, according to The Gazette. “Where I’ve lived 22 years of my life. It’s a fabulous city. My reaction (Wednesday) was more about the city of El Paso than the previous part. I’ll just leave it at that.

Louisville

The Chane Behanan Final Four ring story has come to an end.

Louisville issued a statement indicating “that they and law enforcement officials have gathered extensive information into their examination of how Behanan’s 2012 Final Four ring recently appeared on a sports memorabilia auction site and have determined that Behanan was not involved in the process.

“After communicating with multiple parties, there was no indication that Behanan had anything to do with the ring being presented for sale or that he had any knowledge the ring had been stolen until information appeared on social media Tuesday night.”

Kentucky, NBA Draft

A new Mock Draft from our friend Jason McIntyre at The Big Lead has five Kentucky players going in the first round and the Knicks and the Nets (predictably) watching from the sidelines.

None of the Kentucky first-rounders is named Aaron Harrison.

J-Mac has the Kentucky players thusly:

No. 2 – Julius Randle, Fr., PF, Milwaukee Bucks

No. 12 – James Young, Fr. SG, Denver Nuggets

No. 15 – Willie Cauley-Stein, So., C, Cleveland Cavaliers

Findlay Prep, Recruiting, UNLV

Rashad Vaughn tripped to UNLV Tuesday for the Rebels’ 61-59 loss to Illinois.

The 6-foot-5 shooting guard from Minnesota attends high school in Las Vegas at Findlay Prep.

Vaughn is coming off a Nov. 17 official to Iowa State and said he also plans to trip to North Carolina at some point.

“I’m still deciding on the last two,” Vaughn told SNY.tv recently, referring to his other two official visits. “I’ll probably trim it sometime, I don’t know when.”

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