Former UA standout point guard Jason Gardner, after a successful European playing career and a year on a high school coaching stafff, has taken an assistant coaching job at Loyola of Illinois.
"This was a good opportunity," he told the Indianapolis Star. "With my competitive nature, I'd like to be a head coach at some point. But I know there's still a lot to learn."
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SI's Luke Winn uses MoMo Jones as an example in an interesting analysis of Top 100 players' behavior in transferring and decommitting.
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Scout's subscription site quotes Kaleb Tarczewski saying he's "ready" to make a decision and hopes to do so before school starts or shortly afterward. He's considering North Carolina, Kansas, Arizona and Kentucky.
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Brandon Ashley and Aaron Gordon played well at the Nike Global Challenge.
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At the Adidas Nation event in California, Gabe York had 29 points and seven rebounds to lead the USA Red team to a 98-63 win over Australia on Friday. Tarczewski had 14 points and five rebounds while Robert Upshaw added four points and seven rebounds for the Red team.
Aaron Harrison had 23 points for the USA 2013 team in a game against Asia.
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Colorado has added Fort Lewis and New Orleans to its schedule.
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