Rivals' New Rankings

Rivals just updated their Class of 2010 rankings
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12941

I can hardly dispute anyone's rankings, but a few oddities stand out...

The kid ranked here at #16 is Fabricio de Melo, commonly called Fab Melo.
Melo just verballed to Syracuse. But here's what's odd...
Some evaluators flat out say this kid is #1 and any ranking that fails to list him #1 is ridiculous.
so some evaluators really are ultra-high on Melo.
The other thing is that Melo just arrived in the US last spring, has never played an actual high school game, and the only evidence of how good he is comes from some AAU exposure.
We all know how vastly overinflated some people's assessments can be when using only a few AAU observations....as we all remember John Riek...who likewise zoomed to the absolute #1 spot in the rankings, before he eventually fell off the charts when people actually got to see him against some real defense.
Even Rivals had Melo in the Top 5 just a month ago....and all he did in the meantime was verbal to Syracuse and he's fallen out of the Top 15 now.
So I guess the jury is still out on Melo.
http://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?SID=910&CID=961933
http://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=97113&Sport=2



In the new Class of 2011 Rivals rankings...one kid who verballed to Indiana has zoomed from previously unranked to #86...Austin Etherington..
http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?ra_key=2288

and in Bob Gibbons' recent updated rankings (Top 175), the other IU verbal, a kid named David Williams zoomed all the way from untranked to #107.



So can someone tell me why a guy with a felony domestic assault/aggravated battery conviction and now another battery charge on a ref at a summer game is still coaching in District 150?
http://www.pjstar.com/preps/x772312712/Knights-coach-charged-with-battery



SIU's Bryan Mullins and his Irish National Team win one in Group B of qualifiers for the 2010 World Championships. They beat Luxembourg 101-83.
Bryan had a double double with 19 pts, 10 asst.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=138886#post138886
http://www.rte.ie/sport/basketball/2009/0822/ireland2.html



Fired for "a pattern of unacceptable behavior", but now he's being honored by being inducted into their Hall of Fame. But Bob Knight has NOT been back to the IU campus since his firing.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jQhvNlZfIoEeuqAbDXSrUchrUoDwD9A82LC80



And, although we all knew this was the case.....Creighton had YET to officially announce that Cavel Witter had returned....maybe they were waiting to see if some other, maybe better kid would commit and need the scholarship...but no the word is out - Cavel is back...now confirmed by Dana Altman.
http://creighton.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=977676



Greg Allen, who was verballed and signed to Creighton but not admitted due to academics...appears headed to Chris Roberts' old school, Navarro College...
he has signed a LOI to Navarro and is enrolling there.
http://njcaa.org/colleges_college_intent.cfm?collegeid=1439&sid=4&slid=2&category=Intent



Brazil continues outstanding international play...
they should make a BIG move up the Fiba Rankings.
http://www.latinbasket.com/Marchand-Cup/basketball.asp?NewsID=169939



My challenge still stands from years ago....
name any player anywhere close to an impact player who's headed to a mid-major, that gets this kind of treatment?
NCAA waives the requirement of sitting out a year.....it only happens if an impact player is headed to a top caliber school.
will the streak end when Jake Kelly's situation gets announced?
It probably still won't be enough to keep Indiana State from being picked 9-10th in the Valley
http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10972723