Allen on top

From Monterey Bay Preps: "Palma's Noah Allen named Luis A. Scattini Memorial Tournament Most Valuable Player"

More on Allen's verbal to UCLA

John Devine fleshes out Noah Allen's commitment to UCLA.

Noah Allen 'settles ' for UCLA

Noah Allen will be a Bruin. Take that, Harrrrvard.

Allen down south

Per Alex Kline, Noah Allen is at UCLA this weekend.

Will Allen land in the Beehive State?

Tony Jones writes about Noah Allen and the Utah Utes.

Noah Allen updates

No longer bound for back east, Noah Allen has Pac 12 interest:

Tony Jones: "Utes are still heavily recruiting small forward Noah Allen"

Doug Benton: "Palma guard Noah Allen RT @noaha32 Official to Wazzu this weekend"

Allen talks about Harvard

Here's the background on Noah Allen's decision to not go forward with Harvard.

Wow. That's not even low-balling, it's saying 'come here if you want but you're on your own.'

Allen back on the market

Josh Gershon leads with the details on Noah Allen's declaration of free agency.

Question: did Harvard lowball on the financial assistance offer?

So who gets back involved? Cal now has Bird.  The schools mentioned in earlier Allen recruiting posts were  San Diego State, St. Mary's, Colorado, Utah and Washington State plus some other Ivies.

The Aztecs have a Dakarai Allen commit, with D'Erryl Williams a possibility as well as Darin Johnson. But the latter recently named Oregon as a leader and Washington is pushing hard.

St. Mary's has 6-foot-4 shooting guard Cullen Neal and 6-foot-5 wing Josh Hermanson committed but it's primary backcourters are all upperclassmen.

Colorado just got a commit from a 6-foot-5 wing and a 6-foot-5 SoCal shooting guard so the Buffs look a little crowded.

Utah seems a real longshot. Washington State -- who knows? Maybe having Ikenna Iroegbu at the point would generate some Allen interest in the Palouse.

Allen to the Crimson

Per Josh Gershon, Bay Area Hoosier and Palma player Noah Allen has gone with Harrrrrvard.

Allen getting Pac-12 interest

From Jason Scheer: "Ben Howland and assistant, Johnny Dawkins, Tad Boyle and assistant, Arizona here to see Jordan McLaughlin and Noah Allen"

Updates on Allen and Pitts

A pair of tweets from Philippe Doherty:

"6'6 2013 Wing Noah Allen of Palma HS was just offered by Colorado, Utah, and San Diego State. Bay Area Hoosier AAU wing has had big summer"

"6'5 2013 Combo Guard Elliott Pitts of De la Salle HS, CA was offered by Univ. Of Virginia last night. Bay Area Hoosiers AAU combo guard" 

Pope and Allen per Joel Francisco

Here's Joel Francisco with a pair of NorCal players he observed this past weekend in Las Vegas:

Malik Pope (Sacramento, Calif./Burbank)
2014, WF, 6-7, 180 pounds

The sinewy wing-type has blossoming perimeter skills, excellent quickness and magnetic hands. He rebounds well in his area and can lead the break due to his nifty handle and astute court vision. He handed out a number of high-level passes and he can knock down the 3-point shot. He is conservatively one of the top five prospects out west for the Class of 2014

Noah Allen (Salinas, Calif./Palma)
2013, WF, 6-6, 195 pounds

Allen is a relative unknown on the West Coast, however, if he continues to play with this sense of urgency his popularity amongst coaches and scouts will escalate considerably. The smooth wing-type has a lengthy frame with very long arms and he can score in a variety of ways. He gets great lift on his pull-up jump shot and can slash his way to the rim as well. However, the most significant change in his game may have been his sense of urgency (50-50 balls, rebounding, etc.) he exhibited at both ends of the floor.

Noah Allen's popularity growing

Per this Phil Doherty tweet: "Harvard and Penn have reached out and offered 2013 6'6 Wing Noah Allen of Palma HS in CA. This past weekend with BA Hoosiers in Pangos Event"

Allen checking out Gael-Land

A Phil Doherty tweet: "Noah Allen @noaha32 6'6 2013 wing from Palma HS in CA unofficially visited St. Mary's College yesterday. A deep stroking threat with bounce"

Allen paces Palma

Noah Allen's 26 points led Palma High to a 69-66 victory over Mission Prep down in San Luis Obispo.

Hollister by three over Palma

The Salinas Californian has the details on Hollister High's homecourt victory over Palma.

Palma by a trey over Salinas

Host Palma High proved to be three points better than Salinas High as George Watkins reports.

Tweets from Phil Doherty

Check out Coach Phil Doherty's latest tweets as he writes about Deer Valley's Marcus Lee, Palma's Noah Allen and Sheldon's Dakarai Allen. Allen was just offered by San Diego State.

Soquel one better than Palma

Palma fell to Soquel High despite 17 points apiece from Noah Allen and Jack Powers.

Allen-led Plama wins

John Devine reports on Noah Allen's 32 points carrying Palma to a victory over Burton.