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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 >

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After partially tearing the patellar tendon in his right knee, Josh Smith (Kentwood H.S., Kent, Wash.) said he’s finally healthy enough to begin playing extended minutes.

“I’ve been out for about six weeks,” he said. “It’s been a long process, but things are starting to look up now. I would say right now I’m about 95 percent.”

Smith, a senior center who is the 11th-rated prospect in the HSH national top 50, was injured early in the season during a loss to Federal Way, the top-ranked team in Washington. MORE >

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Just a few weeks ago, N.C. State signee Ryan Harrow made a big statement in regards to 2010 classmate C.J. Leslie — the Wolfpack’s top recruiting target — saying he thinks, “(Leslie) will be playing with me next year.”

Today, while Harrow (Walton H.S./Marietta, Ga.) isn’t exactly backing off of that prediction, he admits that ultimately it will come down to what’s best for Leslie (Word of God/Raleigh, N.C.), the 10th-rated prospect in the HSH national top 50.

“Right now, I just don’t know,” said Harrow, the 20th-rated player in the country. “He always tells me that he wants to play with me and everything like that, but at the same time C.J.’s got a mind of his own. MORE >