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Killer Shooting Guard Looks to Dominate in France With His AAU Teammates

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After a rushed commitment to Ohio State prior to his sophomore season, Trae Golden, a rising senior, is looking to find the right fit.

Virginia Tech, Marquette, Pittsburgh, Kentucky and Connecticut are showing the most interest Golden, a 6-2 shooting guard from McEachern High in Powder Springs, Ga. MORE >

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Prep players around the country are making hygienic changes in wake of the swine flu pandemonium.

Don’t get him wrong, Reggie Bullock has never been mistaken for a germaphobe or an obsessive compulsive or being socially awkward, but in lieu of the recent swine flu mania, Bullock readily ‘fessed up to being all of the above.

“I do a lot of things different these days,” says Bullock, a junior shooting guard from Kinston (N.C.) High, who is rated the No. 13 prospect in HighSchoolHoop top 50. “One of the biggest things I do now is wipe the ball off every deadball during games. Every little bit helps. This whole swine flu stuff is crazy.” MORE >

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To the casual observer the month of April is bittersweet: The end of college basketball season and the beginning of a six-month countdown to start it all over again. But from attending AAU tournaments from coast-to-coast to showing up at gyms for private workouts to 20-hour shifts, for college coaches the work is just beginning.

We caught up with one of the best, Kansas State Associate Head Coach Dalonte Hill, widely regarded as one of the most gifted recruiters in the business, to chat about what a typical offseason is like for a top college assistant. MORE >