Luke Winn: Maryland takes a risk on a talented player with troubled past - Luke Winn - SI.com

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HITS & MISSES IN COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Published 11 days ago by CollegeHoopsNut at Big East Basketball Report
... (ESPN Insider) as Joe Alexander (WVU), Dante Greene (SU), JJ Hickson (NC State) and Russell Westbrook (UCLA) are all highly thought of and likely to go in the lottery. Also, Kansas junior Mario Chalmers, Arizona sophomore Chase Budinger, Cal sophomore Ryan Anderson and North Carolina sophomore Ty Lawson have received positive feedback on thier status. - Luke Winn of SI.com takes a look at the story of Tyree (not Tyreke) Evans as Maryland Takes a Risk on a Talented Player With Troubled Past . Is he worth the risk?

Gary Williams bets all his chips on Tyree Evans
Published 10 days ago at The Dagger
... As Luke Winn reports in a really interesting story this week, that might be changing in 2008-09. Williams has effectively recruited junior college junior Tyree Evans, a Virginia prep legend who scored more points as a senior in high school than anyone not named Moses Malone or Allen Iverson. Evans is a baller. Shot caller. All of that stuff. ...

SI’s Luke Winn on the ACC’s Most-Senior Junior
Published 4 days ago by David Roth at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... will become of Brumbaugh probably has more to do with how he plays at the Orlando pre-draft camp later this month than it does with his past arrest record. But while I’ll be following his fate (and not just because I’ll have to write something like 20 slightly different cards for him if he makes it), I’m more eager to see Tyree Evans, a prospect of Brumbaugh-esque promise who will be attending Maryland next year as a 23-year old junior. As the increasingly great Luke Winn explains in Sports Illustrated — it was current when Brendan Flynn sent it ...