Words. Kevin Zimmerman

Sean Miller is rolling through the recruiting circuit heading into only his third season at Arizona. On Monday, the Wildcats’ head coach pulled in his biggest recruit yet, landing a top-5 overall prospect in the Class of 2012, Brandon Ashley, to a verbal commitment.

The 6-8, 215-pound power forward transferred this summer to Findlay Prep in Nevada following his time at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, and chose the Arizona over Oregon, UCLA and Kentucky. Scooping Nike U and the country’s best recruiter in Kentucky’s John Calipari is surely a sign of things to come for Miller at Arizona. MORE >

Words. Kevin Zimmerman

Orange Lutheran High School guard Gabe York will take his deadly jump shot to the Arizona Wildcats next season, giving the Pac-12 team its second commitment in the 2012 recruiting class.

With head coach Sean Miller having already signed a top-20 overall player Grant Jerrett, the combo guard’s decision showed he isn’t afraid of playing alongside the Wildcats’ 2011 guard class in Josiah Turner and Nick Johnson. York, who Scout, Rivals and ESPN rank as a top-15 shooting guard, chose Arizona over Washington, Marquette and Notre Dame. MORE >

Words. High School Hoop

Seventeen of the nation’s top 19-and-unders, including seven possessing prior USA Basketball experience, have accepted invitations from the USA Basketball Men’s Junior National Team Committee to attend the 2011 USA Basketball Men’s U19 World Championship Team training camp. The training camp, which will be held June 17-24 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., will be used to select the 12-member team that will represent the USA at the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship. MORE >

Words. Jason Jordan

Quality Education Academy (Winston-Salem, NC) just got a big boost to its backcourt with Josiah Turner reportedly joining the team after leaving Sacramento (CA) High on Jan. 8 for unspecified reasons.

Turner, one of the top point guards in the senior class, is signed to Arizona, and was averaging 23 points and five assists per game. MORE >

Words. Lucas Shapiro

With the NCAA’s early signing period in full effect, Kentucky is once again making headlines. For the third straight year, John Calipari has lined up the No. 1 recruiting class in the nation — his 2011 haul includes Michael Gilchrist (St. Patrick, NJ), Marquis Teague (Pike, IN), Anthony Davis (Perspectives Charter School, IL) and Kyle Wiltjer (Jesuit, OR).

As a 6-9, 220-pound forward coming out of the Northwest with a wide-ranging offensive skill set, Wiltjer has naturally drawn some comparisons to Kyle Singler and Luke Jackson, but a closer look at his game reveals more accurate comparisons. We talked with the reigning Elite 24 co-MVP about those comparisons, Canadian basketball, and his hobbies off the court: MORE >

Words. Jason Jordan

Sacramento (Calif.) High School point guard Josiah Turner took his official visit to Arizona last weekend — alongside recent Wildcats’ commit Nick Johnson (Findlay Prep, NV) — fully planning on finishing out the rest of his scheduled visits, which included Kansas, UCLA and Louisville.

But by the time he left, Turner had made his pledge for the Wildcats. MORE >