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WildcatReport.com (Rivals) reports that Northwestern is a potential destination for 6-9 Casey Crawford (subscription link) from Kansas. Crawford is the Player of the Year in Kansas and would be a HUGE get for Northwestern.

Crawford has received interest in the past from a number of schools, but Wake Forest appears to be the front-runner currently. The spring signing period begins April 12.

From the looks of the posts on message boards and comments to this site, not a lot of fans have any patience with Bill Carmody. But it would be hard not to admit that this year's recruiting class could be one of the best in recent memory if NU lands Crawford to go with Kevin Coble, Jeremy Nash, Jeff Ryan and Nikola Boban.

One thing Carmody can offer with the loss of Vedran Vukusic is immediate playing time on the front line.

Another great thing I've found on a web search is a report from Rivals that Crawford scored a 25 on his ACT and 1580 on his SAT (remember when that was an almost perfect score?).

Posted by Greg Shea at 07:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

As expected, the 14-15 Cats were not selected by the NIT tournament (pdf).

What can you really expect of a team that didn't finish .500 and lost three times to Penn State (who is going to the NIT)? Yes, wins over Seton Hall, Iowa and Wisconsin were nice, but you can't ignore that the team wasn't good enough.

And where does it leave Bill Carmody? That could fill 10 separate posts, but consider NUHoops.com solidly in Carmody's corner. Does anybody really think there's anyone else better out there? And the recruiting class for 2007 does look slightly promising.

Posted by Greg Shea at 10:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)