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St. Raymond swingman Kerwin Okoro, one of Pitt’s targets for the Class of 2012, has given a verbal commitment to Iowa State. The 6-foot-5 also was considering Seton Hall and Dayton.  Pitt reportedly offered the Bronx native in April after he played well in the Pittsburgh Hoop Group Jam Fest. At the time, his high school coach Oliver Antigua, [...]

Redshirt freshman guard Cameron Wright missed the final cut  for the  2011 USA Men’s U19 World Championship Team after three days of tryouts in Colorado Springs, Colo. Thirteen finalists for the USA team were named. They will play in the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship June 30-July 10 in Latvia. On the bright side, Wright should be back [...]

  The class of 2011 is starting to tickle into Oakland.  Guard John Johnson arrived on campus on Friday, center Malcolm Gilbert is scheduled to arrive today and center Khem Birch is flying in on Sunday. Not sure about wing Durand Johnson’s ETA from Baltimore but coach Jamie Dixon said on Friday afternoon that he [...]

Pittsburgh Basketball Club Pro-Am summer league schedule all games at Greentree Sportsplex Monday, June 20  7:00 — PGT vs UPMC 8:00 — The Lair vs Center Court 9:00 — PBC vs SPK Law Wednesday, June 22 7:00 — SPK Law vs The Lair 8:00 — Center Court vs UPMC 9:00 — PBC vs PGT Monday, [...]

The 2011 Pittsburgh Basketball Club Pro-Am begins on Monday night (the rosters were posted earlier) at the Greentree Sports Complex and they have made for some interesting matchups. The schedules are supposed to be released later today. Here is a breakdown on the summer league teams. Team 1 Pitt players — Tray Woodall, 5-9, G; [...]

With the NBA draft 10 days away, Brad Wanamaker and Gilbert Brown remain as prospective second-round picks, according to the Week 4 mock draft by Hoopsworld.com. Hoopsworld, which does the mock draft each week for USA Today, predicts Wanamaker going with the 35th overall pick to the Detroit Pistons and Brown going 48th overall to [...]

Ashton Gibbs, trying to make the roster for the USA Basketball World University Games team, will draw competition from Scoop Jardine of Syracuse, Jordan Taylor of Wisconsin and others. The top 12 players will make the team, which will play in China in August at the World University Games. Here is the complete roster Tim Abromaitis, Notre Dame Bradford [...]

Senior guard Ashton Gibbs has been selected to tryout for the 2011 USA Men’s World University Games team. The training camp will be held July 29-Aug. 7 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The 12-member team will represent the USA at the 2011 World University Games August 12-23 in Shenzhen, China. [...]

Guard Cameron Wright was one of 21 players selected to attend the USA Basketball U19 tryouts June 17-24 in Colorado Springs, Colo. The tryouts will determine the 12-member team that will represent the USA in the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship. Jeremy Lamb of national champion Connecticut and James Bell of Villanova also are among [...]

Gilbert Brown began his NBA pre-draft tour by working out with the Indiana Pacers on Friday at the practice court at Conseco Fieldhouse. Working out in front of team president Larry Bird, the 6-foot-6 Brown was joined by fellow swingman Jordan Hamilton of Texas, along with power forwards Markieff Morris of Kansas, Malcolm Thomas of [...]