USF and Santa Clara recruiting receiving some national notes

It helps to be a private school -- we're talking finances here -- but regardless USF and Santa Clara sure do receive national attention for their recruiting targets. St. Mary's too at times.

We've seen a bevy of recruiting updates (articles and tweets) where one school or the other is listed as a suitor and it usually an out-of-state prospect.

Here's just a few we've collected of late:

* 2013 Prestonwood Christian (TX) PG Marquan Botley lists TCU, Memphis, Santa Clara & Albany. He visited Memphis last weekend

* Santa Clara was at Heritage HS, featuring 2013 PG George Johnson and 2014 F Shon Briggs as well as Freedom HS, featuring 2014 W Elliot Smith

* Manroop Clair lists Washington, San Diego St, Washington St, St. Mary's, Richmond, Santa Clara, Wyoming, Utah St, USF, Portland & more

* 2012 PG Joey Gripper of Mount Clare (PA) lists Miami, Memphis, San Francisco, Nebraska, Penn St, Manhattan, VMI, LIU & Manhattan

* San Francisco hosted 2013 Tesoro (CA) PF Tanner Lancona for an unofficial visit today. He also visited USC & UC Irvine this weekend