A couple of reports which have surfaced during the day, one that we've confirmed, and the other which at the moment, is sorta, kinda speculation.

Ryan Hollins to Saint Louis:    This one has been confirmed, and Hollins wasn't apparently as undecided as we had been earlier led to believe.  We reported just a few days ago after talking with Ryan's dad, that he was still undecided between five schools, including Arizona State, Oregon, St. Louis, UTEP, and USC.   According to what we've now learned, Ryan eliminated two schools  (USC and Oregon) and then narrowed it down to three, and ultimately picked Saint Louis.  Congratulations to Ryan and to Billikens head coach Lorenzo Romar.

Nick Stiggers to USC?  This one is totally and completely unconfirmed, and actually comes to us second hand: Dinos Trigonis, who also from time to time gives info to our mutual friend Clark Francis at HoopScoop has apparently gotten some very reliable information that USC has received a verbal commitment from Nick Stiggers (6'-8" Jr. PF) from Hillcrest HS in Memphis, Tennessee.  This is actually pretty interesting news, and Stiggers is an intriguing prospect.   We first saw Nick this spring playing for EBO, and then saw him again at ABCD Camp where, on the first day of full games, Nick went up for a tomahawk slam dunk, and promptly broke his hand (badly), and as a result, he had to have it heavily bandaged.  How tough is this guy?  He continued to play, even with the broken hand.  Nick then came out to SoCal, for the second session of the Double Pump West Coast All Star Camp, but only played in one game, and then not too effectively, given the hand injury.

Stiggers was also reported to be coming to California for high school. While at the West Coast camp, Nick spent alot of time hanging out with his EBO teammates, and it was rumored that he and teammate Maurice Shaw (6'-9" Sr. F) from Fresno Hoover, would both transfer together to San Joaquin Memorial.  Obviously, that didn't happen, and Nick went back to Tennessee.  [An interesting sidenote though:   While Nick didn't go to SJ Memorial, two other EBO teammates have enrolled there, including Antonio "ATM" Lawrence (6'-5" Sr. G/F) and Dwain Williams (6'-0" Fr. PG) who was rumored to be enrolling at Mater Dei...obviously that didn't happen either.....small world].

Nick is a huge, powerful guy, with excellent athleticism, who looks a heck of a lot older and more mature than someone who would be just a junior in high school this season, but then we've always been a bad judge of age....He's a banger, who can clean up inside and rebounds very well.  Active, strong, just the kind of guy that Henry Bibby likes, and if this one is truly a real commitment, it's a great pickup for the Trojans.