Alex Stepheson to allocation from North Carolina to Southern California. According to a report by the Los Angeles Daily News on Thursday.
The 6-9 minor headfirst averaged 4.3 and 4.5 rebounds per game for the Tar Heels last period. He will have two years of entitlement residual and expected will need to sit out the 2008-09 campaign.
There is a chance Stepheson could play this spell if it is untiring by the NCAA that the move is due to medical . Stepheson said in a statement when exodus North Carolina in May that he needed to be closer to his padre, Art, who is sensitivity-related .
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Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy floated a irreplaceable 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 requests to see one 3-point line that’s a foot dense.
“I’m not in favor of keeping two on the story,” Kennedy said. “I consider it will really create upheaval with the womenfolk’s line not touching and now emotional the men’s line back additional foot. I know they’re untaken to be antagonistic colors, but you’re asking for problems as it to which line was it behind: ‘We’ve got to check the proctor.’
“There’s open to be stoppages in play. Coaches are quite underhand, and they’re standard to be inquisitorial 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 key? A 1-foot bulky line top the distance between the womankind’s line and the new men’s line.
“If you are behind it, it’s good for men, and if you’re heartbreaking it, it’s good for women,” Kennedy said. “I’ve been told that wasn’t feasible, but I reason two lines will origin mayhem. I’m talking going on for a line that’s a foot gelatinous. It would look odd, but we’d get used to it in a year.”
Kennedy said he’s looking out for .
“I don’t mull over the players will be as confused,” he said. “You’ll get used to it in time, get a feel for where you are on the flat. You absolutely don’t want your guys down at the ground while they’re irritating to play. But I do agree it will foundation self-consciousness for officials.
“It’s hard enough for officials with the speed and size of guys playing at the moment, and now we’re just them to be able to screen one other area, which honestly doesn’t have to be such a big question if it had been handled differently.”
SEC ROUNDUP
Other news and minutes from Wednesday’s SEC coaches’ teleconference:
Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie said guard Jodie Meeks and presumptuous Patrick Patterson are rolling well from offseason surgeries. Meeks had surgery to mending a two-sided sporting hernia April 11, and Patterson, the SEC’s Co-Freshman of the Year, went under the paperknife March 28 to restoration a tension fracture in his left ankle. “For the former time in a while, Jodie is probably close to having no discomfort,” Gillispie said. Meeks was imperfect to games last season, averaging 8.8 points in 23.2 report. Gillispie said Patterson is “way ahead of where anyone would have likely him to be.” Patterson averaged 16.4 points and led the Wildcats in rebounding (7.7).
Florida coach Billy Donovan’s biggest concerns are in the , where NBA early leaving Marreese Speights has left a chief hole (14.5 ppg, 8.1 rpg). “We have three 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 uncertainty mark with the parting of Marreese is do we have enough up front to continue to grow?” The freshmen to whom Donovan are four-star prospects Eloy Vargas, Kenny Kadji and Allan Chaney. Vargas (No. 26 general ) and Kadji (No. 27) just missed five-star status and will have every single chance to play large summary.
Alabama coach Mark Gottfried can’t wait for the influx of JaMychal Green, a five-star potency onward from Montgomery, Ala. “He’s a high-get-up-and-go guy, plays very hard, operating, quick feet,” Gottfried said. “He’s one of guys when the ball is on the backboard, he’s valid after it every one time. He’s like most freshmen in that he has to absorb to groove, foster post moves. But he a lot of resources. He needs 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 currently is competing at the FIBA Americas Championship in Argentina. The team is coached by Davidson’s Bob McKillop, with John Thompson III of Georgetown and Anthony Grant of Virginia Commonwealth.
Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury said rising subordinate guard Barry Stewart (11.5 ppg) will be out 6-8 weeks after surgery to renovation a anxiety hairline fracture in his ankle. Stewart was hurt in a game a couple of weeks ago, Stansbury said.
Arkansas coach John Pelphrey said he has had some with athletic leader Jeff Long on the order of a practice means. “We’re blessed here to have pronounced conveniences, but I weigh up a procedure skill would add a lot,” Pelphrey said. “When that will become a actuality, 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, productive spring and have done well in the straw-hat,” Felton said. “Our mind-set is in a good spot getting ready to compete in the SEC. Our guys have, in jargon of their methodology, been better and waged hard. We’re in the best locality we’ve ever been, and no distrust winning a championship had a lot to do with it.”
Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl said the unquestioned leader of the Vols this time of year will be low-grade overfriendly Tyler Smith. “He made the very incomprehensible firmness to come back to Tennessee,” Pearl said. “It seemed the happening fixation to do was to shawl your name in the NBA Draft. He did the behind the times mechanism. He decided to chuck himself into the weightiness room and the gym and work on his game.”
Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings said center A.J. Ogilvy, a subsequent-team all-conference pick as a this past term, bushed the common of his summer stock in Australia frustrating to make his indigenous fatherland’s Olympic team. He was one of the irrevocable cuts. “We look forward to him to come back in majestic nature and be ready for a big year,” Stallings said.
TIP-INS
A few high-side view transfers made the surety to drop down and be worthy to play instantaneously, a move not accomplished 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 and 4.0 for the Vols last time. Former Vols co-player Ramar Smith chose Oklahoma City College, the NAIA state winner. Smith averaged 7.4 points and 3.2 for UT. And first Indiana forthright DeAndre Thomas, who averaged 3.6 and 1.8 rebounds in his only season in Bloomington, will play at NAIA Robert Morris College in his local Chicago.
The news does not appear to be good for Gonzaga forward Austin Daye, a ex- Rivals.com five-star prospect. Daye, who averaged 10.5 and 4.7 as a freshman this past term, suffered a in part torn ACL in his satisfactory knee at the Nike LeBron James Skills Academy in Akron, Ohio, last week and will have surgery. Kansas direct Brandon Rush had ACL surgery June 1, 2007, and missed the Jayhawks’ leading two sports event last time of year before manufacture his inauguration Nov. 15. His was a remarkable salvage, and even then it took 5 for him to be game-ready. That would seem to indicate the best-case scenario for Daye would be a yield around Jan. 1.
