Wake Forest's Prosser Dies at 56

Wake Forest head coach Skip Prosser is dead at 56, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.

Prosser collapsed while jogging pn campus and was taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center on Thursday. .

Prosser's career record was 291-146 (.666). He left Xavier after seven years and took the job at Wake Forest in 2001, where he coached seven seasons and won ACC Coach of the Year in 2003. Prosser led Xavier to three NCAA Tournament appearances in seven seasons. He took Wake to the Sweet 16, and Loyola (Md.) into the NCAAs.

He was the only coach in NCAA Tournament history to lead three different schools to the tournament in his first season at the school.

Prosser's three-player recruiting class for 2008 is rated by some in the top three. His class features three top 13 prospects - Al-Farouq Aminu, considered the best small forward in his class, Tony Woods and Ty Walker.

Skip Prosser's son, Mark, is an assistant at Bucknell. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, and his two sons in their 20s: Scott and Mark.

Memphis bound twins still committed

It appears decommiting from a school is more en vogue than standing firm. But as kids make pledges earlier and earlier, who's to stop - or blame-teenagers from switching their schools of choice?

So John Calipari and staff must've been worried when the Philadelphia News had reported Prep Charter twins, Marcus and Markeiff Morris - both top 100 talents- were reopening their recruitment. As it turns out, though, all the Morris twins needed was reassurance from one of the top recruiters in the game. Dan Wolken of the Memphis Commericial Appeal clears the air a bit.

JUSTIN YOUNG of Rivals takes note on all the decommits: http://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=692589

Miami loses out on Top 100 recruit

Miami (Fla) and coach Frank Haith thought they had received a rare top 100 recruit in Tyreese Breshers. A big boy at 6-foot-7, 240 pounds, Breshers' verbal was viewed as an upset, since he's a Los Angeles product. Now Breshers, ranked No. 72 by rivals.com, has reneged from his committment and is headed to Washington.

It's a damaging loss for Haith and Miami because the school can rarely reel in a top 100 recruit. Miami lost out previously to top 10 prospect Devin Ebanks, who choose Indiana over Rutgers and the Hurricanes.

Ed Davis headed to ACC power

The rich get richer in the ACC.

UNC received its second commitment in 2008, and it's a big one. Ed Davis, a 6-8, 215-pound rising senior, verbally committed to Roy Williams and the Tar Heels. UConn and Virgina were also in the running.

Davis will join point guard Larry Drew Jr, who committed back in May, in the class of 2008. Roy Williams is back on track after missing several big names since the summer circuit began. Delvon Roe (Michigan State), Samardo Samuels (Louisville) and Al-Farouq Aminu (Wake Forest) had all spurned the Tar Heels.

However, UNC has enough cache to miss out on top prospects, reel in a big fish or two and eventually finish with a strong class. Davis, a power foward, paired with Drew Jr., a point guard, form as good an inside-out duo one could want.

Rosario dedicates performance to Joe Brown

South Orange – After the U-17 Playaz claimed this year’s Joe Brown Memorial championship - a 66-37 victory by way of submission against Team Breakdown of Florida on the campus of Seton Hall University– Mike Rosario separated himself from the pack to find the scorers table and see if his stats were indeed for real.

Oh yes, Mike, the stats were certainly for real.

You managed to hit a flurry of five second-half 3s - all of which were seemingly from your hot spot, the left corner – in shredding the defense of Team Breakdown like a Thanksgiving turkey.

And you did manage to post a game-high 23 points in the championship game, raining an amazing seven threes for the game.

And yes, Mike, you did this all while Rutgers head coach Fred Hill stood and watched as his prized recruit energized the crowd with every catch-and-shoot motion.

Rosario later missed a three-pointer short from the left-corner (“I didn’t put my legs into it”) to a big groan from the crowd. But the shooting guard bound for Rutgers missed little. He finished 7 of 13, or better than 50 percent, from downtown.

Jimmy Salmon, the director of the Playaz, said he wasn’t surprised to see Rosario go Reggie Miller on Team Breakdown during the championship. “He does it often,” said Salmon. “Mike goes on one of those streaks where he can hit four, five in a row. He’s a hot-and-cold shooter.”

Rosario dedicated the Playaz championship and his performance to Joe Brown. “All of my motivation comes from my team and the whole Playaz program,” said Rosario. “I wanted to especially win this whole tournament for Joe Brown, who died. Unc, the one that was supposed to be here with us this past year but couldn’t because he passed (on).

“I was doing it for him.”

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