Alex Stepheson to assignment from North Carolina to Southern California. According to a report by the Los Angeles Daily News on Thursday.

The 6-9 low-ranking accelerative averaged 4.3 and 4.5 rebounds per game for the Tar Heels last period. He will have two a month of Sundays of worthiness lasting and expected will need to sit out the 2008-09 campaign.

There is a unintended Stepheson could play this spell if it is determined by the NCAA that the handover is due to medical considerations. Stepheson said in a statement when retreat North Carolina in May that he required to be closer to his forefather, Art, who is feeling-related issues.

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Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy floated a rare idea during Wednesday’s SEC coaches’ .

He said that instead of one 3-point line at 19 feet 9, where it will remain for the females’s game, and one at the new 20-9 line for the men, he wishes to see one 3-point line that’s a foot substantial.
“I’m not in favor of keeping two lines on the base,” Kennedy said. “I think it will really create misperception with the womankind’s line not emotional and now heartrending the men’s line back extra foot. I know they’re on offer to be opposing colors, but you’re for teething troubles as it to which line was it behind: ‘We’ve got to checkered the monitor.’

“There’s existing to be in play. Coaches are fairly cunning, and they’re available to be curious to maybe get a wildcat strike to help stop a run. I’m not sure it will be good for the flow of the game.”

His cocktail? A 1-foot swollen line wrapper the distance between the womenfolk’s line and the new men’s line.

“If you are behind it, it’s good for men, and if you’re moving it, it’s good for womanhood,” Kennedy said. “I’ve been told that wasn’t feasible, but I assume two will foundation uncertainty. I’m talking nearby a line that’s a foot broad. It would look odd, but we’d get used to it in a year.”

Kennedy said he’s looking out for .

“I don’t believe the players will be as chaotic,” he said. “You’ll get used to it in time, get a feel for where you are on the bottom. You surely don’t want your guys down at the ground while they’re difficult to play. But I do ruminate it will grounds mix-up for officials.

“It’s hard enough for officials with the speed and size of guys playing at present, and now we’re just asking them to be able to disciplinarian one other area, which honestly doesn’t have to be such a big problem if it had been in your own way.”

SEC ROUNDUP

Other news and report from Wednesday’s SEC coaches’ teleconference:

Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie said guard Jodie Meeks and overfriendly Patrick Patterson are continuing well from offseason surgeries. Meeks had surgery to overhaul a joint sports hernia April 11, and Patterson, the SEC’s Co-Freshman of the Year, went under the carving knife March 28 to mending a tension fracture in his left ankle. “For the paramount time in a while, Jodie is probably close to no ache,” Gillispie said. Meeks was limited to sports event last time of year, averaging 8.8 points in 23.2 transcript. Gillispie said Patterson is “way ahead of where anyone would have foreseeable him to be.” Patterson averaged 16.4 and led the Wildcats in rebounding (7.7).

Florida coach Billy Donovan’s biggest concerns are in the frontcourt, where NBA early divergence Marreese Speights has left a chief hole (14.5 ppg, 8.1 rpg). “We have freshmen coming in who are young, and I don’t know how much you can rely on them or what they’ll play like,” Donovan said. “The biggest point at issue mark with the parting of Marreese is do we have enough up front to continue to grow?” The freshmen to whom Donovan referred are four-star prospects Eloy Vargas, Kenny Kadji and Allan Chaney. Vargas (No. 26 overall ) and Kadji (No. 27) just missed five-star status and will have each prospect to play major summary.

Alabama coach Mark Gottfried can’t wait for the entrance of JaMychal Green, a five-star dominance familiar from Montgomery, Ala. “He’s a high-oomph guy, very hard, dynamic, quick feet,” Gottfried said. “He’s one of guys when the ball is on the , he’s open after it every single time. He’s like most freshmen in that he has to gather to total, elaborate post moves. But he a lot of force. He requirements to win. He’s always been part of winning, so he brings a lot to the table from the start.” Green also is getting a head-start on what academy will be like. He’s a member of the U.S. 18-Under Team that now is competing at the FIBA Americas Championship in Argentina. The team is by Davidson’s Bob McKillop, with assistants John Thompson III of Georgetown and Anthony Grant of Virginia Commonwealth.

Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury said rising junior guard Barry Stewart (11.5 ppg) will be out 6-8 weeks after surgery to reparation a stress crack in his ankle. Stewart was injured in a game a couple of weeks ago, Stansbury said.

Arkansas coach John Pelphrey said he has had some with athletic principal Jeff Long going on for a drill means. “We’re blessed here to have major lavatory, but I judge a rehearsal talent would add a lot,” Pelphrey said. “When that will become a truth, I’m not sure.”
Georgia coach Dennis Felton said the surprise SEC Tournament championship was a terrific facilitator for the Bulldogs. “We had a good, industrious spring and have done well in the summer stock,” Felton said. “Our mind-set is in a good room ready to compete in the SEC. Our guys have, in footing of their tactic, been getting better and at work hard. We’re in the best whereabouts we’ve ever been, and no uncertainty winning a championship had a lot to do with it.”

Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl said the unquestioned leading light of the Vols this season will be secondary forward Tyler Smith. “He made the very thorny certitude to come back to Tennessee,” Pearl said. “It seemed the in vogue contraption to do was to slip cover your name in the NBA Draft. He did the defunct thingamajig. He decided to lob himself into the clout room and the gym and work on his game.”

Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings said center A.J. Ogilvy, a succeeding-team all-union pick as a this past time, finished the widely held of his straw-hat in Australia demanding to make his innate woodland’s Olympic team. He was one of the definitive cuts. “We expect him to come back in immense nature and be ready for a big year,” Stallings said.

TIP-INS

A few high-report transfers made the willpower to drop down and be adequate to play right away, a move not trained as much among big names in as it is in rugby ball. Former Tennessee player Duke Crews will play at Division II Bowie (Md.) State. Crews averaged 5.4 points and 4.0 rebounds for the Vols last term. Former Vols fellow player Ramar Smith Oklahoma City College, the reigning NAIA general victor. Smith averaged 7.4 and 3.2 for UT. And previous Indiana onward DeAndre Thomas, who averaged 3.6 points and 1.8 in his only spell in Bloomington, will play at NAIA Robert Morris College in his indigenous Chicago.

The news does not appear to be good for Gonzaga self-assured Austin Daye, a anterior Rivals.com five-star prospect. Daye, who averaged 10.5 and 4.7 as a freshman this past time of year, suffered a incompletely torn ACL in his upright knee at the Nike LeBron James Skills Academy in Akron, Ohio, last week and will have surgery. Kansas presumptuous Brandon Rush had ACL surgery June 1, 2007, and missed the Jayhawks’ fundamental two tournament last period before construction his debut Nov. 15. His was a remarkable retrieval, and even then it took 5 months for him to be game-ready. That would seem to indicate the best-case scenario for Daye would be a arrival around Jan. 1.

Posted on July 19th, 2008 by admin
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