More Valley news and breaking news on where Chris Bosh & Dwyane Wade are going!!

It's great to see ex-Bradley Brave Jason Faulknor playing internaiotnally with the Jamaican National team. They are currently playing at the Olympic qualifying tournament for the Caribbean (the 2012 Olympics) titled the Centro Basketball Tournament, currently being held in Palacio de los Deportes Virgilio Travieso Soto in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
The teams playing are...
Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago and US Virgin Islands.

Only the TOP FOUR teams at the end of this tournament advance from the Caribbean pool of nations and then compete further for spots at the 2012 Olympics.

In Jamaica's first game, Jason didn't score in his team's close loss, but grabbed a few rebounds and had a couple steals in his limited play. It is very unfortunate for several teams that this tournament is being held at this particular time, as many of the nations' best players are trying to get on to NBA summer league teams, such as Samardo Samuels...
but Jamaica is not the only team that has lost key players to the summer leagues.

Here is lots more about the tourney thus far...
http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=186087#post186087



Numerous local, Valley, and familiar players are already playing in the NBA summer leagues...learn more here...
http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=186088#post186088

I have not heard yet if Osiris Eldridge has been able to get on to a summer league team, but Adam Koch is playing with the Indiana Pacers' summer team, Jordan Eglseder is with the Pistons' summer team, and Patrick O'Bryant is on the Timberwolves summer team.
Here's more on Patrick O'Bryant...he'll be playing in Las Vegas starting Friday..
http://www.kttc.com/global/story.asp?s=12763679



In other Valley news...
The 2010 Missouri Valley Scholar Athlete team has Sam Maniscalco on the 1st Team!!
The rest of the 1st Team are will Creekmore (Missouri State), Graham Hatch (Wichita State), Adam Koch (UNI), and Adam Templeton (Drake).

Thee of those (Maniscalco, Templeton, Hatch) also were named to the NATIONAL 2010 Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association Scholar-Athlete Team.
http://www.twitterglitter.com/celebrity-news/indiana-state-aaron-carter-jordan-printy-named-mvc-scholar-athletes/
http://www.mvc-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=36371&SPID=2901&DB_OEM_ID=7600&ATCLID=204924512



Nick Evans - booted at SIU is now at University of Southern Indiana (he barely needs to change his wardrobe going from SIU to USI)...and here's a story on how he's gonna have a great career there...
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2010/jul/02/evans-hopes-transfer-boosts-career-at-usi/



Indiana State finally finishes filling all its assistant coaching spots..
they hired the head coach at Vincennes where Dodie Dunson went...
http://www.wthitv.com/dpp/sports/isus-lansing-completes-coaching-staff



Here's a long article about ex-Wichita State coach Mark Turgeon and how hard it is coaching at the top level of the BCS - especially when you only draw $2 million in salary!!!
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2010/07/07/1514944/turgeon-believes-am-basketball.html



Here's some interesting news....right on the cusp of plenty of big time schools getting into very hot water with cheating....UConn, Kentucky, etc....
suddenly, the top guy in NCAA enforcement quits...
http://ncaa.org/wps/portal/ncaahome?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/ncaa/ncaa/ncaa+news/ncaa+news+online/2010/association-wide/enforcement+chief+price+to+retire_07_07_10_ncaanews

Could it be that he just can't bring himself to penalize all those big boys that have treated him so nice all these years, even though they are horribly guilty and need to be penalized??




Juco basketball player "God's Gift Achiuwa" and his unusual "All-Name Team name...
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/How-junior-college-star-God-s-Gift-Achiuwa-got-h?urn=ncaab,253762



One of the NCAA's top all time cheaters is back at it again...skirting NCAA rules...
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/UTEP-coach-Tim-Floyd-is-already-skirting-recruit?urn=ncaab,254141

Sad story on the declining health of one of the NCAA's best coaches ever...Dean Smith..
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Some-sad-news-on-former-North-Carolina-coach-Dea?urn=ncaab,254281



DePaul reportedly just got a verbal from a decent Class of 2010 kid...but still may not be cleared...
http://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/recruiting/tracker/player?recruitId=103067&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fncb%2frecruiting%2ftracker%2fplayer%3frecruitId%3d103067



Stay tuned for more great news about Bradley basketball and Valley happenings...and unless it becomes relevant to this blog...you can rest assured that this site will remain LeBron-chatter-free, and also this...
BREAKING NEWS...looks like Chris Bosh will join Dwyane Wade in Miami..
http://www.thestar.com/sports/basketball/nba/raptors/article/832957--chris-bosh-joins-dwyane-wade-in-miami