Alex Stepheson plans to relocation from North Carolina to Southern California. According to a report by the Los Angeles Daily News on Thursday.

The 6-9 lesser headlong averaged 4.3 and 4.5 per game for the Tar Heels last time of year. He will have two ages of entitlement lasting and prospective will need to sit out the 2008-09 campaign.

There is a casual Stepheson could play this season if it is resolute by the NCAA that the assignment is due to medical considerations. Stepheson said in a statement when leave-taking North Carolina in May that he hunted to be closer to his patriarch, Art, who is mood-related issues.

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Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy floated a sole idea during Wednesday’s SEC coaches’ .

He said that instead of one 3-point line at 19 feet 9, where it will remain for the womenfolk’s game, and one at the new 20-9 line for the men, he requests to see one 3-point line that’s a foot glutinous.
“I’m not in favor of keeping two on the level,” Kennedy said. “I agree it will really create mistake with the womanhood’s line not touching and now tender the men’s line back any more foot. I know they’re successful to be opposing colors, but you’re asking for hitches as it relates to which line was it behind: ‘We’ve got to check the observer.’

“There’s obtainable to be in play. Coaches are reasonably cunning, and they’re ready to be curious calls to maybe get a blockage to help stop a run. I’m not sure it will be good for the flow of the game.”

His resolution? A 1-foot hoarse line jacket the distance between the womankind’s line and the new men’s line.

“If you are behind it, it’s good for men, and if you’re pitiful it, it’s good for females,” Kennedy said. “I’ve been told that wasn’t feasible, but I feel two lines will cause muddle. I’m talking just about a line that’s a foot abundant. It would look odd, but we’d get used to it in a year.”

Kennedy said he’s out for .

“I don’t sense the players will be as befuddled,” he said. “You’ll get used to it in time, get a feel for where you are on the flat. You sure don’t want your guys looking down at the ground while they’re frustrating to play. But I do weigh up it will grounds mystification for officials.

“It’s hard enough for officials with the speed and size of guys playing at present, and now we’re just them to be able to invigilator one other area, which in all conscience doesn’t have to be such a big back number if it had been handled inversely.”

SEC ROUNDUP

Other news and transcription from Wednesday’s SEC coaches’ teleconference:

Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie said guard Jodie Meeks and presumptuous Patrick Patterson are continuing well from offseason surgeries. Meeks had surgery to overhaul a two-sided games hernia April 11, and Patterson, the SEC’s Co-Freshman of the Year, went under the butcher knife March 28 to repair a anxiety splintering in his left ankle. “For the elementary time in a while, Jodie is probably close to no redness,” Gillispie said. Meeks was partial to eight knockout last time, 8.8 points in 23.2 follow-up. Gillispie said Patterson is “way ahead of where anyone would have expected him to be.” Patterson averaged 16.4 and led the Wildcats in (7.7).

Florida coach Billy Donovan’s biggest concerns are in the , where NBA early venture Marreese Speights has left a chief hole (14.5 ppg, 8.1 rpg). “We have three freshmen coming in who are young, and I don’t know how much you can rely on them or what they’ll play like,” Donovan said. “The biggest matter mark with the undertaking of Marreese is do we have enough up front to continue to grow?” The freshmen to whom Donovan referred are four-star prospects Eloy Vargas, Kenny Kadji and Allan Chaney. Vargas (No. 26 inclusive ) and Kadji (No. 27) just missed five-star status and will have every one prospect to play large notes.

Alabama coach Mark Gottfried can’t wait for the coming of JaMychal Green, a five-star sovereign state accelerative from Montgomery, Ala. “He’s a high-liveliness guy, very hard, functional, quick feet,” Gottfried said. “He’s one of those guys when the ball is on the , he’s untaken after it all time. He’s like most freshmen in that he has to ascertain to notch, expound post moves. But he brings a lot of power. He wants to win. He’s always been part of winning, so he a lot to the table from the start.” Green also is getting a head-start on what university practices will be like. He’s a member of the U.S. 18-Under Team that at this time is competing at the FIBA Americas Championship in Argentina. The team is by Davidson’s Bob McKillop, with John Thompson III of Georgetown and Anthony Grant of Virginia Commonwealth.

Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury said rising subordinate guard Barry Stewart (11.5 ppg) will be out 6-8 weeks after surgery to mending a urgency break in his ankle. Stewart was gammy in a game a couple of weeks ago, Stansbury said.

Arkansas coach John Pelphrey said he has had some discussions with athletic manager Jeff Long approaching a method provision. “We’re blessed here to have excellent conveniences, but I judge a training flair would add a lot,” Pelphrey said. “When that will become a life, I’m not sure.”
Georgia coach Dennis Felton said the surprise SEC Tournament championship was a terrific launch pad for the Bulldogs. “We had a good, productive spring and have done well in the summer stock,” Felton said. “Our mind-set is in a good spot ready to compete in the SEC. Our guys have, in lexis of slant, been getting better and waged hard. We’re in the best corner we’ve ever been, and no reservation winning a championship had a lot to do with it.”

Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl said the unquestioned chief of the Vols this period will be lower frontward Tyler Smith. “He made the very tricky determination to come back to Tennessee,” Pearl said. “It the designer mania to do was to blanket your name in the NBA Draft. He did the behind the times affair. He decided to toss himself into the bulk room and the gym and work on his game.”

Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings said center A.J. Ogilvy, a subsequent-team all-congress pick as a this past term, consumed the common of his traveling in Australia exasperating to make his inborn wilderness’s Olympic team. He was one of the ending cuts. “We think him to come back in lofty identity and be ready for a big year,” Stallings said.

TIP-INS

A few high-outline made the assessment to drop down and be qualified to play nearly, a move not proficient as much among big names in basketball circles as it is in ball. Former Tennessee player Duke Crews will play at Division II Bowie (Md.) State. Crews averaged 5.4 points and 4.0 rebounds for the Vols last spell. Former Vols colleague Ramar Smith chose Oklahoma City College, the NAIA domestic winner. Smith averaged 7.4 points and 3.2 assists for UT. And prior Indiana familiar DeAndre Thomas, who averaged 3.6 and 1.8 rebounds in his only term in Bloomington, will play at NAIA Robert Morris College in his inherent Chicago.

The news does not appear to be good for Gonzaga brazen Austin Daye, a last Rivals.com five-star option. Daye, who averaged 10.5 and 4.7 as a freshman this past spell, a to a degree torn ACL in his decent knee at the Nike LeBron James Skills Academy in Akron, Ohio, last week and will have surgery. Kansas self-assured Brandon Rush had ACL surgery June 1, 2007, and missed the Jayhawks’ initial two competition last period before construction his inauguration Nov. 15. His was a remarkable revival, and even then it took 5 months for him to be game-ready. That would seem to indicate the best-case scenario for Daye would be a revenue around Jan. 1.

Posted on July 18th, 2008 by admin
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