More on Josiah Turner

Jim Basnight usually writes about Washington Huskies basketball but also covers PAC-12 basketball. He offered some intriguing items about former Sac High star backcourter Josiah Turner in his Tuesday, May 24 Pac-12 Roundup:

"...First is the ongoing NCAA investigation of his fishy eligibility situation..."

The entire column is worthwhile reading, as are the sections on Turner. Go here and scroll down to the entry of 4:57 p.m.

Thursday's northern California high school report

Mitch Stephens offers the big scores from last night as BOD got SW-ed.

John Dugan is all over the San Marin victory.

Mitch highlights the play of DLS's Amadi Udenyi versus San Ramon Valley.

At the Inside Bay Area site, it appears all the scores and game writeups are compiled.

David Kiefer has a feature on Mid-Pen star Lydell Cardwell.

Damin Esper has the details of St. Mary's triumph over Marin Catholic.

Thomas Gase tells us what we need to know about the St. Patrick - St. Vincent loss to Salesian.

Bill Paterson says the ghost of Josiah Turner is wisping away from the Sac High program.

Josh Levine covers the Burlingame victory over SI.

Bonta Hill reports on Washington win versus Lowell.

Brian VanderBeek reports that the king is dead -- at least for no0w as Modesto Christian was taken down by Amador.

Jeremy Balan has the scoop on Stephen Domingo receiving a national honor.

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Santa Teresa 54, Piedmont Hills 52

ST -- Spencer Koopmans 5-0-14 (four treys), Tim Priest 6-1-13

PH -- Stephen Anderson 5-8-19

Evan Daniels with more on the MickeyD non-selections

Here's national basketball writer Evan Daniels writing about the glaring omissions of Jabari Brown and Josiah Turner from the McDonald's annual hullabaloo. Calvin Andrews cannot be happy and rightly so, joining many others. Here's betting some changes are made in the cast of characters eligible to vote.

A Josiah Turner site

Here is a Josiah Turner site that was sent to us (thank you), complete with updates from North Carolina.

A few items found on Sunday

Max to the max again. Analy High's Max Fuji gets some major love (and deservedly so) from Howard Senzell.

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Bill Paterson provides some feedback from some local coaches on Josiah Turner's move out of Sacramento.

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Coach Doug Cornelius and his Yuiba College squad keeps on rolling -- this time topping Napa.

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Here is a must-read human interest story on Chico High's Sterling Smith. Led by Smith, Chico High nabbed another win Friday night.

Marcos Breton on Sac High hoops

The Sac Bee's Marcos Breton offers a good feature on the Josiah Turner situation, incorporating the broader perspective and providing plenty of quotes from Coach Derek Swafford.

HS & JC scores, news and notes

Saw this posted at the Rivals basketball recruiting message board: "Josiah Turner is leaving Sac High and taking his talents to Quality Education Academy in North Carolina"

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Santa Rosa 67, Delta 62

Derek Wofford scored 11 points, but visiting Delta fell to Santa Rosa JC. SR's Lorenzo McCloud led all scorers with 30 points and five 3-pointers.

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Santa Teresa 59, Leland 56

Santa Teresa -- Spencer Koopmans 6-2-19, Trevor Priest 6-0-13, Denzel Copeland 4-2-11

Leland -- Justin Dueck 6-2-14, Dylan Bell 5-0-12

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Oakland over Deer Valley, Berkeley over Oakland Tech in the Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have A Dream Classic" at Laney College. Go here.  

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San Marin won over Novato behind 20+ points and 20+ rebounds from Stuart Wesonga -- go here.

New show on Bravo -- "Sac High Basketball"

Actually, our headline is too harsh because it unfairly implicates so many involved with Dragon hoops who have nothing to do with the Josiah Turner mess. We salute Coach Derek Swafford for ending the drama on his terms, meaning the integrity of the school and the basketball program.

Joe Davidson of the Sacramento Bee reports on the latest and hopefully the last.

As Josiah Turner turns...

Will the adult or adults here do the right thing and cut the foolish drama?

We have no insight into the background of Josiah Turner's current status but mom is certainly not coming out looking good here.

It certainly wouldn't be a first for college basketball, let alone Arizona (or most other bigtime teams), but Coach Sean Miller has to be wondering what kind of phone calls he'll be receiving once Turner sets foot on campus.

If only adulthood guaranteed mature behavior.

Sac High's Turner remains enrolled in school; team status pending
Joe Davidson
Sacramento Bee
UJanuary 13, 2011

Now he is remaining in school.

The Bee reported today that Sacramento High School basketball star Josiah Turner - at the urging of his mother Doris Ward - was set to leave the Oak Park campus this morning and enroll elsewhere. But Dragons coach Derek Swafford said that has not happened.

Turner, a prolific 6-foot-3 guard headed to Arizona on scholarship, is still enrolled and still a member of the team, though his return to the floor remains uncertain, Swafford said...

Go here for the remainder.

Smoke, fire and Josiah Turner

Sometimes the adage where there's smoke, there's fire, turns into the truth.

Sac High basketball star Turner leaves school
Bill Paterson
Sacramento Bee
January 12, 2011

Sacramento High School basketball star Josiah Turner, one of the area's top all-time national recruits, will leave the school today, according to coach Derek Swafford.

"All his mom would say is that the family wants to go another way," Swafford said by phone Tuesday evening. "She didn't say why, but the parting was amicable. There is no malice. … We wish him well..."

Go here for the remainder.

Where's Josiah?

That's the question posed by Bill Paterson/Sacramento Bee and many others after Burbank topples Sacramento.

Woodcreek thriving, Sheldon humbled, Sac High wins, Polee stars

Bill Paterson of the Sacramento Bee has a full load of scores and notes in his ptrep column today -- head here.

To call or not to call coaches you turned down

Josiah Turner is featured here, among other national recruits, in an interesting article about relationships continuing even after a high schooler decides to play at another college. Then there is one player who declined to call the other coaches who were pursuing him. Check it out.

Josiah Turner signing article

Bill Paterson in the Sacramento Bee has an article today on Josiah Turner's signing a letter-of-intent with Arizona. Teammate Robert Garrett, headed to Santa Clara, is also featured.

An interesting item on Josiah Turner's recruitment

In response to a question, Rivals' Jerry Meyers offered some speculation (Rivals sub required) -- minus confirmation -- surrounding Josiah Turner's decision to go with Arizona. Here you go:

What impact, if any, does the potential NBA lockout have on both programs (Kansas and Arizona], which have to allocate their resources, and players, who may be looking for immediate playing time? As of now, it appears to be a relatively low-priority issue. Thanks for your input.

- Arthur from Hastings

Jerry Meyers: We might have just seen the first major example of the potential NBA lockout affecting a recruiting situation.

One line of thought on Turner's commitment to Arizona is that Turner was concerned that a lockout would result in [Josh] Selby and Tyshawn Taylor still being on the Kansas roster Turner's freshman year. If that were to be the case, Turner would likely play a reserve role as a freshman at Kansas. Arizona, however, presents a much more favorable scenario for Turner playing a lead role even if there were to be a lockout.

Again, this is just a line of thought concerning Turner. One way or another, it is an example of a scenario showing how the threat of a lockout can affect college recruiting.

Now we have no idea regarding the truth in all of the above but sometimes you get the feeling that there just might be so much more going on in a player's recruiting orbit than the average fan understands.

Josiah Turner explains his decision

Sac High's Josiah Turner tells why he decided now and why UofA:

Sac High's Turner tells why he chose Arizona basketball
Bill Paterson
Sacramento Bee
September 22, 2010

A combination of a weekend visit that felt right plus the taxing grind of a lengthy recruiting process led Sacramento High's Josiah Turner to verbally commit to Arizona on Sunday.

The 6-foot-3 point guard, considered the 10th-best player nationally in the Class of 2011 by www.rivals.com, announced Sunday he would play for the Wildcats and second-year coach Sean Miller...

Go here for the remainder.

It was a weekend of commitments

Sheldon (Sacramento) High teammates Darius Nelson and Ramon Eaton will be playing their final season together in 2010-2011 as Nelson just committed to UTEP and Eaton to Pepperdine. Bill Paterson has the details here.

Here is a very frank ESPN evaluation of Nelson.

Here's the same for Eaton.

The biggest news of all was Josiah Turner saying yes to Arizona -- here's an ESPN article on that commitment. We thought Turner would be a Jayhwak.

Calling Jabari Brown...calling Jabari Brown...how was Seattle?

A Josiah Turner update

Per Shay Wildeboor, Josiah Turner and his mother hosted Bill Self Monday night and that Turner will be visiting the Lawrence campus. No decision will be made until all Turner's officials are completed.

A Jabari Brown feature and one on Josiah Turner

At a new site (Cali High Sports), a feature on Jabari Brown has been posted. Go here for a good read.

Here's one at the same site on Josiah Turner.

Josiah Turner back from Louisville

Sac High's Josiah Turner has finished a visit to Louisville this week, with UCLA coming up next weekend. Kansas is his last official visit and that's the school for some time that we've been envisioning Turner at next season. Maybe we'll be proven right, maybe wrong -- we'll know in a couple of weeks, or possibly less.