***The Official HORN SPORTS March Madness Bracket Pool***

[BevoBlake]

Woot! I'll be wearing a Wisconsin hat on my birthday next weekend! (April 5th) I'm fairly certain if they beat Kentucky, I've sealed the win.

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

Woot! I'll be wearing a Wisconsin hat on my birthday next weekend! (April 5th) I'm fairly certain if they beat Kentucky, I've sealed the win.

Bevo Blake's bday present: winning the HS Tourney Pick'em.

 

[Juan]

USA Today article  http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2014/04/02/college-basketball-grassroots-in-texas/7173101/

Texas riches extend to basketball courts
Eric Prisbell, USA TODAY Sports 11:35 a.m. EDT April 2, 2014

DALLAS — The state of Texas – including all of its more than 268,000 square miles – is still the home to $60 million high school football stadiums, Johnny Football and the NFL franchise that considers itself "America's Team."But as Arlington this week welcomes the men's basketball Final Four – the seventh to be played in Texas since 1971 – another slice of this pigskin-crazed state will come into focus. The tired cliché that everything is bigger in Texas now applies to the grassroots basketball world.

No state can claim as many elite high school prospects in recent years. And that has led to a rapid emergence of shoe company-sponsored summer programs and a pronounced rise in competitive recruiting battles around the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, throughout Houston and everywhere in between.
"Right now I would say this: Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston produce more talent than New York and Philadelphia," said Fran Fraschilla, the ESPN analyst who lives in Dallas. "It is true. The recruiting landscape in recent years, for a lot of economic and sociological reasons, has shifted to the Sun Belt. There's just more talent here."

As great as all that sounds, it would be even greater if the best ones stayed here.

For example, Randle and the Harrisons might have made for a pretty decent Longhorn team.

As Fraschilla said: "We all know that navigating the Dallas AAU waters is a tricky situation … There's some promises that have to be made. It's more pronounced here in Texas in the last 15 years because the pipeline of players that has opened up in this state."

Speaking in general about the issues of third-party influences in the state, Texas assistant Chris Ogden, who was named Texas' Mr. Basketball in 1999, said the ever-changing in-state dynamics can complicate recruiting.

If you are a school in Kentucky, he said, "you may recruit one guy in that state, but you don't have to deal with the in-state drama," Ogden said. "Florida is a big state, but how many guys do they get out of Florida? Not the abundance. Texas is full of athletes running around. There are so many. If we did not have to leave the state, we wouldn't leave the state. We would never leave the state. We would never leave Austin."

 

[longhorndon]

WooHoo!   Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!



Can't wait to see my new badge!

 

[Juan]

A look back ........

from July 2009 --

DeAndre Daniels is a Longhorn

By Gerry Hamilton
Co-Publisher
Posted Jul 2, 2009

[SIZE=.9em]The Texas Longhorns began building their 2011 recruiting class on January 12 with the commitment of point guard Myck Kabongo. On May 4, 6-5 guard Sheldon McClellan gave Texas his verbal followed by La Marque’s Julien Lewis on June 22.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=.9em]Today, Texas added the #36 ranked player in the country, rising forward DeAndre Daniels, to a class now filled with endless skill, versatility and the ability to score the ball from the perimeter.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=.9em]The Longhorns first took an interest in the Woodland Hills Taft prospect during the spring evaluation period. Texas was drawn to the 6-7.5 long armed forward because of his combination of length, ability to shoot the ball out to 22-feet, the ability to drive the ball on a big man and a high ceiling that the junior to be is far from reaching.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=.9em]On June 18-19 in Austin, Daniels showed all of those skills plus very impressive footwork, touch with impressive hands and a high ceiling that earned an offer from head coach Rick Barnes.[/SIZE]

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http://texas.scout.com/2/876674.html

 

[Lukus Alderman]

A look back ........

from July 2009 --

DeAndre Daniels is a Longhorn

By Gerry Hamilton

Co-Publisher

Posted Jul 2, 2009

The Texas Longhorns began building their 2011 recruiting class on January 12 with the commitment of point guard Myck Kabongo. On May 4, 6-5 guard Sheldon McClellan gave Texas his verbal followed by La Marque’s Julien Lewis on June 22.

Today, Texas added the #36 ranked player in the country, rising forward DeAndre Daniels, to a class now filled with endless skill, versatility and the ability to score the ball from the perimeter.

The Longhorns first took an interest in the Woodland Hills Taft prospect during the spring evaluation period. Texas was drawn to the 6-7.5 long armed forward because of his combination of length, ability to shoot the ball out to 22-feet, the ability to drive the ball on a big man and a high ceiling that the junior to be is far from reaching.

On June 18-19 in Austin, Daniels showed all of those skills plus very impressive footwork, touch with impressive hands and a high ceiling that earned an offer from head coach Rick Barnes.

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http://texas.scout.com/2/876674.html

What happened with his recruitment? I forgot.