Johnson down to four

 Via Garrett Tucker: "Darin Johnson says his final 4 schools are Washington, Oregon, San Diego State & Marquette"

So he could be playing with Desmond Simmons (and maybe Aaron Gordon) or Dom Artis or Dakarai Johnson and Malik Thames or Juan Anderson.

Rabb checking out The Farm

From Josh Gershon: "2015 PF Ivan Rabb - http://Scout.com 's 4th ranked prospect in the class - unofficially visited Stanford this weekend"

Maybe that was John Calipari in a car next to you

Hey, maybe that was John Calipari you saw this weekend. From Garrett Tucker: "John Calipari is scheduled to have an in-home visit with Marcus Lee today"

SJSU and two Sactown prospects

Per Doug Benton/NorCal Preps (a Rivals sub is required), San Jose State University has interest in a pair of Sacto area talents:

* Sheldon/PHPS Elite combo guard D'Erryl Williams had in-home visits with San Diego, Loyola Marymount and San Jose State with visits planned to all three schools. Columbia also came out to watch him play.

* Eric Duncan of Weston Ranch/PHPS Black is being recruited by San Jose State, Boise State, Southern Utah and Hawaii.

It's not far away

Saw this today and am guessing it applies to California Community College hoops too: October 1 marks the official start of junior college basketball practice.

Because we're the NCAA, that's why

Has the NCAA gone all David Byrne/Talking Heads and stopped making sense? Or does the preceding sentence indicate a veering away and thus sense was being made earlier?

Read David Steele's article.

Did the NCAA uncover additional questions/information about those prep school classes? Was it a different person/committee doing the interpretation this year? What changed?

Check out these Eric Nelson video highlights

6-foot-7 Merritt College forward Eric Nelson, out of El Cerrito High, is highlighted below:

Mooney heads south

From the Santa Cruz Sentinel: former Monte Vista Christian backcourter Josh Mooney has decided to play a season at La Jolla Prep.

Here's a March 2012 feature on Mooney.

New coach for Harbor High

Andrew Matheson/Santa Cruz Sentinel has the scoop on the next Harbor High (Santa Cruz) boys basketball coach.

Romar and Company checking out Wright

From Jim Basnight: "2013 JC guard Delon Wright of San Francisco CC will be watched by the UW staff “this upcoming week”: http://www.huskydigest.com/index.php"

More on the Tarkanian Classic

MaxPreps on the Tarkanian Classic in late December which includes a pair of Nor Cal squads.

The list of teams:

* Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas)
* Bishop O'Dowd (Oakland, CA)
* Cheyenne (North Las Vegas, NV)
* Clark (Las Vegas), Compton (CA)
* Durango (Las Vegas)
* Fairfax (Los Angeles)
* Harlan (Chicago)
* Mater Dei (Santa Ana, CA)
* Morgan Park (Chicago)
* Our Savior New American (Centereach, N.Y.)
* Pinnacle (Phoenix)
* Redondo Union (Redondo Beach, CA)
* Ribet Academy (Los Angeles)
* Sheldon (Sacramento)
* St. Anthony (Long Beach, CA)

More on the DA commitment

Joe Davidson writes about Dakarai Allen's commitment to San Diego State.

Another Darin Johnson item

From Husky Haul: "Also UW is doing good with 4-star wing, Darin Johnson"

A decision that helped and hurt

So Oregon State Coach Craig Robinson just received a contract extension through the 2016=17 season.

It's always fun to speculate in these kind of instances so here goes.

If Arizona State doesn't mis-evaluate and turn away Jared Cunningham, is Herb Sendek's coaching seat much, much cooler and Craig Robinson's the reverse?

Didn't ASU decide to go with Demetrius Walker of George Dohrmann's book "Play Their Hearts Out" (now at New Mexico) instead?

Wright checking out Salt Lake City

CCSF talent Delon Wright is hitting Utah this weekend.

Seems too early for a JC commitment but who knows.

Here's our earlier September 4 post.