A few new items...

Sorry to see Sam Maniscalco's ankles still bothering him -- he's a tough kid and will play through pain, but after all the time off and the surgeries -- it seems none of all that has helped his ankles as much as hoped.
Maybe Sam deserves an explanation from the ankle specialists surgeons in North Carolina as to why investing so much into the surgery has paid off so little....
Regardless, I still expect Sam to be a big help to the Illini.


Eddren McCain landed at NAIA Paul Quinn College in Texas, and had a fine year last season, with 14 ppg & nearly 8 assists per game leading all of college basketball.
However - Eddren is no longer on the Paul Quinn roster this year for his senior season - and I have read that he might have burned out on basketball.


Highland CC is about to open their season -- here's an article mentioning their starting center Michael Ochereobia...
http://www.journalstandard.com/sports/x1992153584/Highland-men-ready-for-big-year


Kyle Vogt has done well for himself and landed as assistant to Jim Molinari at Western Illinois...
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=239019#post239019


Boogie's first regular season game in the Canadian National Basketball League is tonight.


Ex-Bradley - even if only for a redshirt year - Jeremy Fears is one of the top stars of the top Austrian pro league - and leads his team in nearly every category...
..scoring (15.3), assists (5.0), steals (1.7), minutes played (32), and shoots 55%.


Ex-BU recruit Stan Simpson did OK last night in Memphis' exhibition game vs. Lemoyne - but so did everyone else as Memphis clobbered LeMoyne by 60.


Coach Cornelius of Yuba College has a really loaded squad this year and is expecting a good season...
http://norcalbasketball.blogspot.com/2011/10/2011-12-yuba-college-49ers.html


Wichita State folks were pleased that one of their recruits for next year had a fine opening game...
Cleanthony Early scored 35 points in Sullivan's (juco) win over Redemption Christian Academy.
http://twitter.com/#!/tropicalshox/status/131769541385654272
...BUT Redemption Christian Academy is a small, private high school - not a college at all!! So I might wonder how significant this accomplishment is for a talented D-I recruit who is a sophomore at junior college playing against a bunch of high schoolers.


Ex-Saluki Ryan Hare booted off the University of Southern Indiana team -- this makes at least 3 or 4 teams he's been booted from...
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/oct/31/no-headline---ev_01usimcclure/


Speaking of troubled ex-SIU players -- need I say more...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2047l9001l0l9235l19l13l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0&safe=strict&um=1&tab=iw&q=cache:7GS2ArDS9RgJ:http://www.jailbase.com/en/arrested/oh-mcso/2011-04-15/kevin-dillard-1108130+%22mugshot+of+kevin+dillard%22&ct=clnk


ICC basketball is already 1-0 beating St. Ambrose JV and they play again tonight - against Lewis & Clark.
Their new schedule is finally up..
http://www.icc.edu/athletics/basketballM/players.asp
AJ Guyton is no longer assisting.


Ex-BU recruit Jacob Williams from St. Pat's played his first juco game for Vincennes - and scored 2 pts...
One other juco name to maybe be aware of - at Richard J. Daley College Jeremy Price (from Chicago Curie) - averaging 35 ppg & 9 rpg in the early going.


Ex-Iowa State center and Larry Eustachy player Jared Homan - playing in Italy - slugged his own coach and got kicked off the team for punching out his own coach!
http://www.eurobasket.com/Italy/basketball.asp?NewsID=247120