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Robinson adds former UVM assistant Agel to Brown staff

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Craig Robinson officially has some help in the men’s basketball office at Brown, as the school announced the hiring of Jesse Agel on Tuesday. The 1984 Vermont graduate was previously an assistant at his alma mater for 18 seasons, and was an applicant for the school’s head coaching job when it opened up last spring following the retirement of longtime head coach Tom Brennan. Last season Agel coached boys basketball at Colchester High School just outside Burlington. Brown has yet to announce any additional hirings, though a number of Brown basketball alumni are rumored to have expressed interest in joining Robinson’s staff.

Former Wisconsin star Vershaw joins Cornell staff

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Steve Donahue has added Mark Vershaw to his coaching staff after top assistant Izzi Metz left for the Hobart head coaching job this past April. Vershaw is listed in the Cornell’s online staff directory and was quoted as a Cornell assistant in an article in Sunday’s Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. He comes to Cornell after an 18-month stint as the team manager and de facto big man coach at Washington State under his college coach, Dick Bennett. Prior to that, Vershaw broke into the coaching ranks as an assistant at Illinois Central College, before leaving mid-season in January 2005 to join Bennett at Washington State. As a college player at Wisconsin, Vershaw scored 1,066 points and was the leading scorer on the Badgers’ 2000 Final Four team.

Academics sideline Penn’s Whitehurst

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Craig Haley of The Times of Trenton has confirmed an Internet rumor that had been circulating for the past months: junior David Whitehurst has been declared academically ineligible. In the article, Haley states that Whitehurst “was dismissed from the Ivy League university for the upcoming school year for academic reasons” and “will have an opportunity to return for the 2007-08 school year.” There was no confirmation of the story from the Penn athletic department, who told The Daily Pennsylvanian they “would never comment on a student-athlete’s academic status.”

2006 recruiting breakdown: Columbia

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The recruits:
G Kevin Bulger – 6-3, 200 lbs – Glenbrook South HS (Glenview, IL)
PG Patrick Foley – 6-2, 170 lbs – St. Anthony’s HS (Bluepoint, NY)
PF Michael Gately – 6-8, 215 lbs – St. Mark’s School (Sudbury, MA)
SG Wesley Matthews – 6-3, 195 lbs – South Cobb HS (Atlanta, GA)
SG Niko Scott – 6-3, 200 lbs – Brewster Academy (New York, NY)

2006 recruiting breakdown: Harvard

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The recruits:
SG Tommy Balcetis – 6-5, 190 lbs – Holderness School (Vilnius, Lithuania)
SG Alek Blankenau – 6-3, 180 lbs – Southeast HS (Lincoln, NE)
SG Darryl Finkton – 6-3, 200 lbs – North Central HS (Indianapolis, IN)
PG Jeremy Lin – 6-2, 180 lbs – Palo Alto HS (Palo Alto, CA)
PF Pat Magnarelli – 6-7, 210 lbs – Duxbury HS (Duxbury, MA)
PF Doug Miller – 6-7, 220 lbs – Winchester HS (Winchester, MA)