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Few matchups between hyped-up high schools stars actually live up to the excitement that it builds, but when Winter Park (Fla.) combo guard Austin Rivers tangled with Pine Crest (Fla.) point guard Brandon Knight this past Friday on ESPN2, the performances trumped the hype.

In the end, Rivers had the better supporting cast as Winter Park outlasted Pine Crest, 87-76, at Florida Atlantic University. Knight, ranked No. 2 in the HSH national top 50, pumped in 48 points in the loss, while Rivers, ranked No. 5, dropped 42 points. MORE >

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Nearly a month ago, Montrose Christian (Rockville, Md.) swingman Terrence Ross de-committed from Maryland. Now he’s leaving Montrose.

“I’m not going to talk about it other than to say that Terrence has withdrawn from Montrose,” head coach Stu Vetter told the Washington Post. “It was a parental decision, and we wish him well.”

No word yet on where Ross, an Oregon native, will end up, or what this potentially means for his recruitment. Duke, Kansas and Kentucky are all in contention for Ross — not Maryland, despite Vetter’s claims that the Terrapins remain on the list of suitors. MORE >

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Four days ago, Lake Clifton-Eastern (Baltimore, Md.) star point guard Josh Selby lit up City High for 41 points in a 69-61 win.

In just a few weeks, the highly sought-after undecided recruit will take his second campus visit in as many months, when he heads to Kansas on Feb. 13, according to his mother, Maeshon Witherspoon.

Selby, who is ranked No. 7 in the HSH national top 50, visited Arizona earlier in January and he’s scheduled to visit Kentucky on March 7. In addition to Arizona, Kansas and Kentucky, Selby is considering Syracuse and Indiana. MORE >

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Garfield High School (Seattle) guard Tony Wroten Jr. said his interest from colleges hasn’t fallen off as a result of the knee injury that could cost him his entire junior season.

Wroten tore his ACL in September, in his first game with Garfield’s football team. (He also caught a touchdown and intercepted two passes in that game.) He’s been sidelined ever since, and the reigning Class 4A state runner-up Bulldogs has struggled to stay in Washington’s Top-10 ranking without him. MORE >

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In four years at Rocky Mount (N.C.) High School, TaShawn Mabry has drained plenty of three-pointers and put up more than his share of 30-point games.

But what made Mabry’s three from the right wing during the third quarter of Tuesday’s game against Northern Nash special was that it allowed him to bypass former Rocky Mount legend Phil Ford on the school’s all-time scoring list.

Mabry finished with 31 points in the blowout win, giving him a career total of 2,102. MORE >

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Upper Room Christian Academy (Raleigh, N.C.) point guard Rodney Purvis has decided to switch from the CP3 All-Stars AAU to the Boo Williams Summer League for the upcoming AAU season, because BWSL is allowing him to run the point exclusively.

“At this point, I want to concentrate on being a point guard full-time,” said Purvis, who will run with the 16-and-under team. “I just think it’s important for me to continue to develop.”

That might sound a bit extreme since Purvis is just a 15-year-old freshman, but when you’re good enough to be dubbed “the next John Wall” things have a way of taking off fast. MORE >