King headed to Concordia over USC, Majok leaving UCONN to play pro, Nevada Investigating Marcus Jordan,Pitinos Woes

Former Villanova and Duke forward Taylor King will not end up attending USC this fall and is instead headed to NAIA school Concordia.

King had told FOXSports.com earlier this month that he would be transferring to the Pac-10 school, where he’d have to sit out this season and would have one year of eligibility left.

“It didn’t end up working out,” King told FOXSports.com on Wednesday.

King originally chose to attend USC over Azusa Pacific and Concordia, two NAIA schools in California where he’d be able to play two seasons.

But King would have had to pay his own way this season at USC, and that would have cost him roughly $50,000.

The 6-foot-6, 230-pound native of Huntington Beach, Calif., averaged 7.4 points and 5.3 rebounds in 32 games last season for Villanova, which reached the second round of the NCAA tournament.

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebasketball/story/Former-Villanova-forward-Taylor-King-to-attend-Concordia-over-USC-082510

McDunkins opinion: if he stayed at villinova or even had chosen a west coast school the first time he transferred he had a chance to be a late second round pick. He is pretty much a stronger,better passing, better rebounding,and less mobile Jason Kapono. I know for a fact both Coach K and Wright hated his smoking habit…if tobacco and other green things. but atleast he will always be kevin loves bff

Oh no!, says Pitino

It’s been a rough summer for Louisville head coach Rick Pitino, and things haven’t gotten any better as we head into the upcoming Labor Day weekend. Two players expected to contribute on the wing for the 2010-11 Cardinals will not be eligible. The biggest hit comes in the form of Memphis transfer Roburt Sallie, who was attempting to take advantage of a transfer rule that allows a player to play immediately at his new school if he has already graduated and his school does not offer post-graduate training in his area of study (see: Alabama’s Justin Knox to UNC as but one example). Well, Sallie failed to graduate from Memphis over the summer in time to enroll at Louisville, so he will not be allowed to utilize the rule. Additionally, incoming freshman Justin Coleman, a top fifty scoring guard from Huntington, WV, is also ineligible. Louisville clawed its way to a mediocre season by its lofty standards last year (20-13, 1st round NCAA loss), but frankly, we’re having trouble seeing how Pitino is going to coax his current roster back into the Big Dance

x men hate

LeBron’s high school coach at St. Vincent-St. Mary (OH), Dru Joyce, stated late last week that Xavier University is now his “enemy,” and that the school would no longer be allowed to recruit his players after what he describes as the unnecessary pushing of one of his stars to a prep school for 2010-11. JaKarr Sampson is a rising senior who shot up the summer recruiting rankings after a strong showing at LeBron’s Skills Academy, but according to his mother, it is she, not XU, who is responsible for sending her son to prep school Brewster Academy (NH) because of his lackluster academic record. Weird situation, there.

Its Going Down…Under

It was easy to overlook on a Friday afternoon filled with various comings and goings, but the Hartford Courant reported that several sources expect UConn center Ater Majok to head to Australia to play professionally in coming weeks, ending a collegiate career that was long on hype but short — very short, in fact — on production. The well-traveled player who entered UConn in the fall of 2008 projected as the next great Husky big man will leave Storrs having scored a grand total of 59 points and secured 80 rebounds in less than one season of action. According to the piece, Majok hasn’t yet formally made the decision to leave, but head coach Jim Calhoun certainly hinted at the possibility:

“We’re talking to Ater about his future, yeah,” Calhoun said. “That’s all I can say. … He hasn’t made any decision yet, but he could certainly go back and play in the Australian professional league. Nothing’s been determined yet, but there’s a chance that kind of thing could happen.”

Stuntin Like My Daddy

Ahhh, yes, the permanence of Twitter combined with the immaturity of (near-) teenagers. Central Florida’s Marcus Jordan is now being investigated by the Nevada Gaming Control Board to determine what laws, if any, were broken last week when the 20-year old Jordan tweeted about spending $35,000 at Haze and Liquid Pool Lounge (a nightclub and pool in the Aria complex at Vegas’ CityCenter) and $56,000 during an entire day in Las Vegas.

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