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Date Posted: 16:05:20 06/18/02 Tue
Author: matt b
Subject: au news clips

Well, I guess I'll find out if anyone else out there is reading by posting these. The first article talks about a kid that AU was looking at but who decided to go to Columbia instead, the second quotes a former AU bball coach, and the last says that AU has an away game at Missouri this November. Comments?
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University Wire
June 5, 2002, Wednesday
Columbia lands top basketball recruits
BYLINE: By Jon Kelly, Columbia Daily Spectator

SURCE: Columbia U.

DATELINE: New York

BODY:
After a dissapointing regular season, the Columbia men's basketball
team recently completed a highly succesful recruiting season. Although
head coach Armond Hill insists that a recruiting class cannot be graded
before the players have even donned the Columbia light blue, Hill has
assembled a class of six players that is arguably as exciting and
encouraging as any other incoming class in the league. The four incoming
first-years and two junior college transfers will join a Lion team that lost
four of five starters last season to graduation.

Headlining the class are Arnel Scott and Dragutin Kravic, two players
who spurned offers from major and mid-major conference teams. Scott, the
most heralded player of the six, signed a letter of intent earlier in
the year to play for Boston College. However, it is rumored that Scott
and Boston College agreed to a mutual split later in the recruiting
season. "[Scott] expressed that it was a mutual separation," Hill said. "I
took it as he was allowed to look at other opportunities, and when he
came here he really liked the guys."

While Hill concedes that although Scott, a 6-foot-5 small forward from
Milliken High School in Markham, Ontario, has a large upside, he knows
that he is yet to be battle-tested.

"He hasn't scored one basket on the college level," said Hill. "He's
raw, but he has nice ability, and drive."

Dragutin Kravic, a 6-foot-8 forward from Manhattan's The Dwight School
also turned down a number of offers from other Ivy League schools in
addition to American University, the Patriot League regular-season
champion. Although Kravic has a strong understaning of the game and his own
abilities, he will face the challenge of adjusting to Division I
basketball after playing in a mediocre high school league where he averaged 32
points as a junior. However, Kravic's height and versatility on the
offensive end might help him become a consistent scorer in the Ivies.

"He is still very raw, and he came from a league not known for great
basketball," Hill said

***

Morning Star (Wilmington, NC)
June 15, 2002, Saturday
Wilcox faces busy schedule

Chuck Carree, Staff Writer

By all accounts, open workouts in the next five days will determine
Whiteville native Chris Wilcox's place in the June 26 National Basketball
Association draft.

He will conduct a workout today in New York's Madison Square Garden for
a number of NBA teams and showcase his skills again on Wednesday in
Phoenix.

He also worked out for nine teams holding lottery picks last Wednesday
at the Chicago Bulls' practice facility. "He is a gifted athlete with a
lot of potential," Milwaukee Bucks' consultant Ed Tapscott said.
"Overall, he is highly regarded."

At the recent NBA predraft camp in Chicago, Wilcox was measured at
6-foot-91/2 with shoes and 6-81/4 without sneakers. He also weighed in at
218 pounds with a wingspan of 7-foot-1.

A 19-year-old who left the University of Maryland after his sophomore
season on the heels of an NCAA championship, Wilcox has invited only the
13 teams in the lottery to his workouts.

Last Wednesday, besides the Bulls, the New York Knicks were also in
attendance.

At the Bulls' practice facility, Wilcox reportedly had a strong
workout. The Bulls have the second overall pick and all indications are that
they are leaning toward Duke's Jay Williams.

"This is my first time here," Wilcox told the Chicago Sun-Times in
Thursday's edition. "At first, I was a little nervous. It was my first NBA
workout, all these teams here and the championship banners and then I
started to get into a rhythm."

Wilcox will work out today against Fresno State's Melvin Ely.

"Chris is physically gifted and appealing for teams in the top 10,"
Sacramento Kings scout Keith Drum said. "From everything I have heard, he
should go in the Top 10."

A projected power forward, Wilcox averaged 11.6 points and 7.7 rebounds
with 41 blocked shots last season.

Tapscott - a former coach at American University, ex-Knicks' scout, and
a current TV-radio commentator - feels workouts won't be the only
factor in determining Wilcox's status.

"I have always put more stock in the interviews you do with each
player," Tapscott said. "You have already determined if they can play or not.
He is a prime-time player who can impact a franchise."

Chuck Carree: 343-2262 or chuck.carreewilmingtonstar.com

***

Kansas City Star
May 31, 2002, Friday METROPOLITAN EDITION
MU schedules to improve RPI

MIKE DeARMOND; The Kansas City Star

Southern Cal, Iowa, Illinois and Valparaiso will headline next
season's basketball schedule for Missouri, with a couple of major
non-conference additions still under negotiation.

Lee Rashman, who handles the scheduling for MU, wouldn't reveal
the major non-conference possibilities. But Rashman did confirm on
Thursday that Missouri will play:

Southern Cal on Dec. 7 in Anaheim, Calif., as the second game of
the John R. Wooden Classic at the Arrowhead Pond. California will
play Georgia in the opening game of the single-day event. At Iowa in
early January, the date subject to TV negotiations.

Illinois in St. Louis on Dec. 21.

Valparaiso in Columbia on Dec. 30.

Additionally, Missouri has firmed up a home game against American
University on Nov. 22.

The focus for next season's schedule is to avoid the imbalance of
the 2001-02 season. Starting with the semifinal of the Guardians
Classic in Kansas City on Nov. 20 through a Nov. 29 game against
Jackson State, the Tigers played four games in nine days. They also
played three games in the first six days of December. But in the next
24 days, MU played only three games.

"We didn't have great balance on the dates last year," Rashman
said. "TV pulled one game out of the middle of a week and then one
team cancelled in the middle of a week. We're working to correct
that."

Additionally, the evolving schedule is being put together with an
eye toward a better potential RPI ranking at season's end. Missouri
has made the NCAA Tournament each of the last four seasons, but the
RPI rating slid each year, from 31st to 38th to 47th to 54th.

The Guardians Classic saddled Missouri with Tennessee-Martin and
Air Force a year ago. But Missouri also hurt itself by playing
Grambling, Jackson State, Southern University A&M and Coppin State,
schools that wound up from 279 to 316 in the RPI.

"RPI's been a major motivation," Rashman said. "That's why you
see Valpo on the schedule. That's a clear effort to solve that."

For the first time since the 1992-93 season, Missouri won't be
playing another in-state school. The series with Saint Louis
University has lapsed and efforts to play UMKC next season couldn't
be worked out.

"Hopefully it's something that we can get done in the future
like our series with Kansas, going in there one year and them coming
here the next," said UMKC coach Rich Zvosec.

There could be some movement in the exempt tournament lawsuit as
early as today that could clear MU to play in the Guardians Classic
again, voiding or delaying implementation of the NCAA's rule against
teams playing in more than two exempt tournaments in four years.
Expiration of the latest round of mediation comes today. If an
agreement is not reached, a judge in a Columbus, Ohio, court could
make that decision next week.

Missouri won the inaugural Guardians Classic last season and also
beat Xavier in the Wooden Tradition in Indianapolis, a sister event
to the Wooden Classic.

DEVINE CEREMONY SATURDAY IN COLUMBIA: A service honoring the
memory of Dan Devine will be held Saturday at Our Lady of Lourdes
Park, 903 Bernadette Drive, in Columbia. The service begins at 2 p.m.
Those wishing to contribute to the Dan Devine Memorial Athletic
Endowment may do so by sending checks to the MU Athletic Department,
P.O. Box 677, Hearnes Center, Columbia, Mo. 65205.

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[> Re: au news clips -- Go...'gate, 14:42:59 06/19/02 Wed

Nice post; thanks for the articles!!

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[> [> Re: au news clips -- Sader Fan, 19:04:38 06/20/02 Thu

Too bad AU missed out on that recruit. Do you have the list of AU recruits for next year?

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