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Will the cheating end or just take a new form (which could look familiar)?
Cast against their brown and beige office backdrops, the four horsemen of the settlement spoke as one. Tony Petitti, Jim Phillips, Greg Sankey and Brett Yormark – commissioners of the conferences that control major college sports – conducted a remote news conference Monday morning to share their views on the momentous House v. NCAA settlement and what’s […]

Cast against their brown and beige office backdrops, the four horsemen of the settlement spoke as one.
Tony Petitti, Jim Phillips, Greg Sankey and Brett Yormark – commissioners of the conferences that control major college sports – conducted a remote news conference Monday morning to share their views on the momentous House v. NCAA settlement and what’s next for the industry.
They were joined on the Zoom call by Teresa Gould, commissioner of the Pac-12, which was a named defendant in the lawsuit (along with the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC and NCAA) and therefore a participant in constructing the post-settlement world order.
Together, the quintet reiterated the need for congressional help to codify rules and provide antitrust protection in order to end the barrage of legal challenges to the NCAA.
They explained that the distribution of $20.5 million to athletes starting July 1 won’t be determined at the conference level. How much to allocate to football, men’s basketball and the Olympic sports will be a campus decision.
And they acknowledged the post-settlement world is evolving. They don’t have all the systems and personnel in place to immediately clean up what Phillips (ACC) called “an unregulated environment with no rules and no enforcement.” They believe answers, and solutions, will come with time.
But is there any reason to believe cheating will disappear? That pay-for-play, which has taken so many forms over the decades, will be expunged from the system? That “bad actors,” as Sankey (SEC) described them, will be banished forever?
If effort and determination count, the clean-up effort could succeed.
“It’s progress over perfection,” Yormark (Big 12) explained. “There will be challenges. But we’re very confident.
“Our schools want rules. We’re providing rules, and we will be governed by those rules. And if you break those rules, the ramifications will be punitive.”
As part of the settlement, the power conferences created the College Sports Commission, with a chief executive, Bryan Seeley, a former lead investigator for Major League Baseball, and a singular mission: Ensure NIL deals are legitimate.
For the past four years, they have been anything but.
Remember the old-fashioned cheating, when bags o’ cash were given to recruits and their handlers in exchange for signatures on letters of intent? The moment NIL became the law of the land in the summer of 2021, a new, legal form of pay-for-play emerged, courtesy of booster collectives.
High school recruits and transfers alike were lured to schools by collectives offering six- and seven-figure deals. Those deals did not require players to participate in the promotional and endorsement opportunities at the heart of what the NCAA described as legitimate NIL.
The fake NIL was under-the-table cheating out in the open – unregulated but entirely legal.
Which brings us to the College Sports Commission (CSC) and the industry’s latest attempt to clean up the player procurement process.
In addition to the $20.5 million they will receive directly from the schools as part of the House settlement, athletes retain the ability to strike NIL deals with third-party entities. The difference: Now, they must report any contract of at least $600 to NIL Go, a technology platform designed by Deloitte that will determine if deals fall within a reasonable range of compensation. (That’s code for fair market value.)
If NIL Go rejects the deal, athletes have the option to adjust the terms and resubmit.
Or they could seek arbitration.
In theory, they could ignore NIL Go, agree to the contract and take the field (or court). But there’s a risk to competing with an invalid NIL deal, because the schools are arming the CSC with enforcement authority.
How will Seeley, a former assistant U.S. attorney, gather evidence? He won’t have subpoena power.
Also, who will design the penalty matrix?
“We’re in the process of developing some of those rules and structure and overall implementation,” Phillips said.
The industry is watching, and skeptics are everywhere.
Even if NIL Go successfully filters out the illegitimate business deals – the financial arrangements that are outside a reasonable range of compensation – the specter of pay-for-play remains.
And it could very well take a familiar form. That’s right, folks: Get ready for the return of bags o’ cash.
The CSC is designed to eliminate the donor collectives that paid players (legally) without demanding anything in return except a signature and their best effort on gameday.
But if deep-pocketed fans of School X want to help the team secure vital commitments from coveted transfers or blue-chip prospects, is the CSC really going to stop them?
Pay-for-play could simply return to its former location – under the table – and proceed with limited hesitation.
How can the CSC police the actions of thousands of donors representing hundreds of schools across 10 major college conferences?
How could it investigate and punish private citizens?
Will the schools report suspicious activity, invite Seeley to town and hand over whatever evidence helps expose transgressions committed by a million-dollar donor who is also helping to fund the new engineering building?
The commissioners know far more about the CSC than we do.
They have discussed the clean-up project extensively with campus officials desperate for law and order.
They made a shrewd move hiring a former assistant U.S. attorney and not a college sports lifer.
But it’s difficult to ignore the leap-of-faith component built into their new world order. College sports has too many athletes with financial needs, too many sources of cash and too many fans who care about winning above all else.
The result is a revamped system that’s rooted in best intentions but dependent on a leap of faith.
“Ultimately,” Sankey said, “it’s incumbent upon everyone, presidents and chancellors, athletic directors, head coaches, assistant coaches and staff and, yes, commissioners, to make the terms of this settlement work.”
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Texas Tech’s latest recruiting coup: 5-star offensive tackle Felix Ojo
By Sam Khan Jr., Bruce Feldman and Justin Williams Texas Tech continues to be a major player in college sports’ new era of player compensation, with the latest evidence coming in the form of a football recruiting coup. The Red Raiders landed a commitment on Friday from five-star offensive tackle Felix Ojo, the No. 1 […]

By Sam Khan Jr., Bruce Feldman and Justin Williams
Texas Tech continues to be a major player in college sports’ new era of player compensation, with the latest evidence coming in the form of a football recruiting coup.
The Red Raiders landed a commitment on Friday from five-star offensive tackle Felix Ojo, the No. 1 recruit in Texas and a top 10 national recruit in the 2026 class, after the parties agreed to a three-year, $2.3 million revenue-sharing contract, two school sources confirmed to The Athletic on Saturday.
Ojo, a 6-foot-6, 275-pound recruit from Lake Ridge High in Mansfield, Texas, was one of the most heavily recruited prospects in the country, with 50 scholarship offers, according to 247Sports. In addition to Texas Tech, Ojo took official visits to Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Ole Miss, Texas and Utah. If Ojo officially signs with the Red Raiders during the December signing period, he would be the highest-rated prospect Texas Tech has signed in the modern recruiting era and the second five-star, joining 2024 receiver Micah Hudson. Ojo is the No. 7 recruit in the 247Sports Composite and No. 6 in the On3 Industry rankings.
It was a bit of a surprise on the recruiting trail, as Ojo’s reported finalists were Texas, Ohio State, Michigan and Florida, with the Longhorns and Buckeyes leading the race in the home stretch, according to Rivals.com. But Texas Tech, which has proved to be one of the biggest spenders in name, image and likeness compensation in the last year, remained firmly in the recruitment — even if not publicly — since Ojo’s official visit to Lubbock in April.
During his commitment announcement on Friday, Ojo initially put on a Longhorns hat before switching to a Texas Tech hat.
Mansfield Lake Ridge 5-star offensive lineman Felix Ojo first puts on a Texas hat, and the crowd goes wild, then he pulls a surprise and says he is actually committing to Texas Tech.#txhsfb @SportsDayHS @dctf @MISDathletics @247sports @TexasTechFB @TexasFootball @Rivals pic.twitter.com/WwbhCpjS3S
— Greg Riddle (@DMNGregRiddle) July 4, 2025
ESPN reported on Friday that Ojo was receiving a three-year deal worth $5.1 million, according to his agent, Derrick Shelby of Prestige Management. Shelby confirmed those figures to The Athletic on Saturday, but three Texas Tech sources refuted that number, with two confirming that Ojo is scheduled to receive an annual compensation of $775,000 per year for three years from Tech’s revenue-sharing pool. Ojo’s deal, according to a Tech source, includes a verbal agreement that can escalate the total value of the contract into the $5 million range if there were a large jump in the revenue sharing cap for schools or if there is minimal regulation of schools’ adhering to the cap, in much the way there has been minimal regulation of NIL since its institution in 2021. Shelby declined to share a copy of the contract with The Athletic but stood by the initially reported numbers.
The news of Ojo’s commitment and contract agreement represents the continued changing tides of college recruiting. After the approval of the House v. NCAA settlement and implementation of revenue sharing, colleges can allocate up to roughly $20.5 million to pay athletes across their sponsored sports. Schools could begin directly paying players on their current roster on July 1. They can verbally negotiate deals with future recruits and send official written scholarship offers and revenue-sharing contract offers beginning Aug. 1 of the recruit’s senior year of high school, but those contracts cannot be signed until each respective sport’s signing period begins, which is Dec. 3 for the FBS.
The national letter of intent program, which used to bind a recruit to a school, was eliminated by the NCAA in October and replaced by financial aid agreements that prohibited other schools from recruiting a prospect once signed.
Texas Tech has been aggressive in the NIL space in recent years and will continue to be in the era. The Matador Club, the school’s NIL collective, was one of the first to implement team-wide NIL contracts for football players in 2022. The Red Raiders made a splash in softball, signing former Stanford pitcher NiJaree Canady to a one-year deal worth more than $1 million last summer (Canady led Tech to the Women’s College World Series final, where the Red Raiders lost to Texas). In men’s basketball, the team retained second-team All-American JT Toppin to a deal of more than $3 million in April.
Tech’s football team spent more than $10 million on its transfer portal class this offseason, landing multiple highly coveted transfers, including former North Carolina offensive tackle Howard Sampson, former Stanford edge rusher David Bailey and former Georgia Tech edge rusher Romello Height. The Red Raiders’ portal signing class is ranked No. 1 by On3 and No. 2 by 247Sports.
Billionaire oil magnate Cody Campbell, a former Texas Tech offensive lineman, co-founder of the Matador Club and chairman of the school’s board of regents, told The Athletic last month that Tech would spend an estimated $55 million combined in revenue-sharing dollars and NIL money for players across the athletic department for the 2025-26 cycle. After the House settlement approval, the Matador Club merged with Texas Tech’s Red Raider Club, the longtime donor arm of Texas Tech athletics.
Ojo’s commitment was part of a successful recruiting week for Texas Tech, as they also landed commitments from four-star running back Ashton Rowden and four-star cornerback Donovan Webb. Ojo, Rowden and Webb are the three highest-rated commits in Tech’s 2026 class, which is currently No. 24 in the country, according to 247Sports. Texas Tech is also considered to be in a strong position to land a commitment from Cooper Hackett, a five-star offensive tackle in the 2027 class from Fort Gibson, Okla. Both 247Sports and On3 have predicted Tech to land a commitment from Hackett.
If Texas Tech is able to close on Ojo and Hackett, that would make three consecutive years of the Red Raiders signing a five-star high school recruit after not landing one from 2000 to 2023.
(Photo of Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire: Justin Ford / Getty Images)
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PFF ranks Top 50 college football players ahead of 2025 season
The 2025 college football season is officially just 50 days away, as week zero kicks off on August 23. Using their data and grading, PFF identified the most dominant and valuable players in the country. They ranked the top 50 college football players ahead of the 2025 season. Alabama, Penn State and Texas lead the […]

The 2025 college football season is officially just 50 days away, as week zero kicks off on August 23.
Using their data and grading, PFF identified the most dominant and valuable players in the country. They ranked the top 50 college football players ahead of the 2025 season.
Alabama, Penn State and Texas lead the way with five players in the top 50, followed by Clemson with four. Ohio State however boasts the top two players in the country, while Clemson has three in the top-10.
True sophomore wide receiver Jeremiah Smith was tabbed as the best player in the country heading into the 2025 season.
As a freshman, Smith was a key cog in Ohio State‘s first National Championship winning team since 2014. With Will Howard at quarterback, Smith hauled in 76 receptions for 1,315 yards and 15 touchdowns. He was named a First Team All-American, earned First Team All-Big Ten honors and was the Rose Bowl Offensive MVP. Big things are expected from Smith as a sophomore, who shattered Cris Carter‘s Ohio State freshman receiving records last season.

In Downs’ first season in Columbus in 2024, he was named a unanimous First Team All-American and was named the Big Ten Conference’s Defensive Back of the Year. He, just like Smith, was a key member of a National Championship winning team last season.
As a sophomore, the Alabama transfer totaled 81 tackles, 7.5 TFL, 0.5 sack and two interceptions. He is lauded as the best defensive player in the country heading into the 2025 season.
Junior defensive lineman Peter Woods is the first of three Clemson Tigers in the top-10 of PFF’s top-50 rankings.
Woods emerged as a defensive monster in the ACC last season, recording 28 tackles with 8.5 TFL and three sacks en route to an All-ACC Honorable Mention last season. Over his first two years of college football, he is both the highest-graded and most valuable returning Power Four defensive tackle, according to PFF WAA.
Notre Dame‘s Jeremiyah Love is tabbed as the highest ranked running back in the country, fresh off a 2024 campaign in which he rushed for 1,125 yards and 17 touchdowns.
His defining moment came in the Fighting Irish’s Allstate Sugar Bowl victory over Indiana, when he rushed for a 98-yard touchdown. Love was the second-most-valuable running back in college football in 2024, according to PFF WAA, and his 91.0 PFF overall grade ranked fifth.

OT Spencer Fano is just the latest Utah offensive tackle to earn national praise, as he is the highest ranked offensive lineman in the country heading into the 2025 season.
Fano was named a PFF First Team All-American last season, along with being tabbed to the All-Big 12 First Team. He brings a wealth of experience with 25 career games played for an Utah team looking to get back in the College Football Playoff conversation. The Spanish Fork, UT native’s 93.0 PFF overall grade in 2024 led all FBS tackles.
Moore was a standout at his position as a true freshman last season, as he was named the 2024 FWAA Freshman Defensive Player of the Year along with being named a FWAA Freshman All-American.
In 16 games, Moore recorded 48 tackles, 2 TFL, 11 pass break ups and two interceptions for a Fighting Irish team that fell just shy of a National Championship. He finished his true freshman season as the third-most-valuable cornerback in college football, according to PFF WAA, trailing only Texas‘ Jahdae Barron and Colorado‘s Travis Hunter.
Clemson‘s Cade Klubnik has been tabbed as the top-ranked quarterback in the country heading into the 2025 season.
As a junior in 2024, Klubnik passed for 3,639 yards, 36 touchdowns and just six interceptions. He is one of only three two-time ACC Championship Game MVPs all-time and ranks in the top five in Clemson history in nearly every passing category. He has been lauded as a pre-season favorite for Heisman, joining Texas‘ Arch Manning and LSU‘s Garrett Nussmeier.

The 2024 Shawn Alexander National Freshman of the Year award winner heads into the 2025 season as one of the best defensive players in the country.
Simmons exploded in Texas‘ first season in the SEC last season, recording 48 tackles, 14 TFL and nine sacks as a true freshman. He selected to Freshman All-America teams by ESPN, FWAA, PFF and The Athletic and was named to the SEC All-Freshman Team.
Much like Simmons, Stewart emerged as a superstar freshman last season for Shane Beamer‘s Gamecocks.
As one of the nation’s top pass rusher last season, the Washington, D.C. native recorded 23 tackles, 10.5 TFL and 6.5 sacks with three forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries. Look for Stewart and Simmons to battle over the SEC Defensive Player of the Year honor this season.
Clemson EDGE rusher T.J. Parker is the last of three Clemson players to round out the top-ten.
As a sophomore last season, Parker recorded 57 tackles, 19.5 TFL and 12 sacks. His 12 sacks led all power-four rushers last season, leading him to be currently projected as the No. 2 overall pick in PFF’s 2026 NFL Mock Draft.
Players 11-50
11. C Jake Slaughter, Florida
12. WR Ryan Williams, Alabama
13. CB Jermod McCoy, Tennessee
14. LB Anthony Hill Jr., Texas
15. EDGE Reuben Bain Jr., Miami
16. G Ar’maj Reed-Adams, Texas A&M
17. QB Sam Leavitt, Arizona State
18. WR Jordyn Tyson, Arizona State
19. TE Eli Stowers, Vanderbilt
20. S Koi Perich, Minnesota
21. QB Carson Beck, Miami
22. QB Drew Allar, Penn State
23. QB Garrett Nussmeier, LSU
24. CB D’Angelo Ponds, Penn State
25. S Dillon Thieneman, Oregon
26. S Michael Taaffe, Texas
27. CB Avieon Terrell, Clemson
28. RB Isaac Brown, Louisville
29. LB Taurean York, Texas A&M
30. EDGE Keldric Faulk, Auburn
31. RB Nick Singleton, Penn State
32. RB Jonah Coleman, Washington
33. CB Chandler Rivers, Duke
34. EDGE LT Overton, Alabama
35. EDGE Tyreak Sapp, Florida
36. EDGE Mikail Kamara, Indiana
37. RB Makhi Hughes, Oregon
38. WR Elijah Sarratt, Indiana
39. DT Zane Durant, Penn State
40. DL Tim Keenan III, Alabama
41. OT Francis Mauigoa, Miami
42. S KJ Bolden, Georgia
43. OT Kadyn Proctor, Alabama
44. LB Whit Weeks, LSU
45. LB Austin Romaine, Kansas State
46. CB Malik Muhammad, Texas
47. S Bray Hubbard, Alabama
48. EDGE Dani Dennis-Sutton, Penn State
49. S Terry Moore, Duke
50. QB Arch Manning, Texas

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Tennessee Basketball in
Tennessee Basketball target and 2026 four-star power forward Trey Thompson committed to Iowa on Saturday and reclassified to 2025. The in-state prospect picked the Hawkeyes over the Vols, Purdue and Vanderbilt, among others. “I chose Iowa because there was a need for me now,” Thompson told Joe Tipton. “I wanted a significant role and I […]


Tennessee Basketball target and 2026 four-star power forward Trey Thompson committed to Iowa on Saturday and reclassified to 2025. The in-state prospect picked the Hawkeyes over the Vols, Purdue and Vanderbilt, among others.
“I chose Iowa because there was a need for me now,” Thompson told Joe Tipton. “I wanted a significant role and I wanted to get better this year. They gave me both of those, so I decided to say yes.”
Thompson, the 6-foot-8, 220-pound prospect out of Greeneville, was ranked No. 55 overall player in the 2026 class. After the move to 2025, he’s a three-star prospect ranked No. 125 overall, including No. 28 at power forward and No. 1 overall in the state of Tennessee.
“I wanted to reclass up to get better this year,” Thompson told Tipton. “I want to be the best basketball player I can possibly be and going to coach (Ben) McCollum and doing this now is the best way for that.”
Tennessee hosted Thompson on an official visit in early June. His list of offers included Purdue, Connecticut, Indiana, Providence, Villanova, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Stanford, among others.
He was one of the biggest risers in the 2026 class when On3 updated its rankings earlier this year, jumping up 60 spots. Along with being ranked No. 55 overall in the class, he was the No. 8 power forward in the class and the No. 3 in-state prospect.
Vols signed five players in the class of 2025
Tennessee does not yet have any commitments in the 2026 class. The Vols signed five prep prospects in 2025, headlined by five-star small forward Nate Ament, the No. 2 overall player in the class.
The 6-foot-9 Ament is a consensus five-star prospect, ranked no lower than No. 4 in any of the ranking systems.
His commitment moved Tennessee’s 2025 class up to No. 14 nationally in the class rankings. The Vols are No. 4 in the SEC and have an average class score of 92.29.
Tennessee has added eight new players to 2025-26 roster
Amari Evans, the 6-foot-5, 204-pound shooting guard, is ranked No. 69 overall in the On3 Industry Rating. Dewayne Brown II, the 6-foot-9, 235-pound big man and the first commitment in the class, is ranked No. 96 overall.
The Vols this spring added three-star point guard Troy Henderson and three-star shooting guard Clarence Massamba, a French prospect from AS Monaco.
Tennessee’s offseason roster overhaul also included the addition of three players from the NCAA Transfer Portal: Point guard Ja’Kobi Gillespie, power forward Jaylen Carey and combo guard Amaree Abram.
Gillespie, another Greeneville native, spent last season at Maryland after playing two seasons at Belmont. Carey transferred from Vanderbilt and Abram was the last transfer addition, coming to the Vols from Louisiana Tech.
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IN PICS: Nick Saban Brings the Laughs with His Entry at Kristen Saban’s July 4th Fam Jam
Retired college football coaching legend Nick Saban enjoyed the Fourth of July with his family, and he even brought the laughs to his daughter, Kristen. Over the Fourth of July holidays, the former Alabama coach hilariously drove around on a lawnmower… indoors, and he was driving it in circles too. As per Saban’s daughter Kristen’s […]

Retired college football coaching legend Nick Saban enjoyed the Fourth of July with his family, and he even brought the laughs to his daughter, Kristen.
Over the Fourth of July holidays, the former Alabama coach hilariously drove around on a lawnmower… indoors, and he was driving it in circles too.
As per Saban’s daughter Kristen’s story, the entire Saban family greeted everybody a happy Fourth of July. They soon enjoyed a fireworks display later in the evening.
Saban retired from coaching in 2023 after a decades-long career, coaching mostly college teams and having a brief stint coaching the NFL’s Miami Dolphins. He is best known for coaching the Alabama Crimson Tide, winning six national championships with them.
The 73-year-old made a name for himself as the head coach of the LSU Tigers in the early 2000s, winning his first championship in 2003.
Since retiring, Saban has become a college football broadcast personality. He is seen serving as an analyst for ESPN’s “College Game Day” and contributing to several football events, including the NFL Draft and SEC Media Days, as well as covering the College Football Playoffs.

Nick Saban Has Advice For Players Who Want To Focus on Getting NIL Money
Nick Saban has been a mainstay of college football for decades now, so the former Crimson Tide coach knows a thing or two regarding navigating the NCAA. However, things have changed since his time at Alabama, with college sports having entered the NIL era, where teams are obliged to share NIL money with their players.
During an appearance on “Pure Athlete,” Saban had some advice for players regarding NIL. As per him, if the players want more money, they should first focus on improving themselves as players.
“I think the focus needs to be on development,” Nick Saban said. “I think the guys that took the best advantage of their opportunities in college – at least that I had an experience with – were the guys that weren’t necessarily focused on the outcome of what they wanted to ultimately accomplish.”
“But they were able to stay focused on the things they needed to do to get that outcome, which means you’re focused on your development on a day-to-day basis in terms of the character and attitude that you, sort of, live your life and develop the kind of work habits and perseverance,” he added.
Outside of football, Nick Saban founded the Nick’s Kids Foundation and has been helping children in need since. He was noted for raising over $1 million for his charity foundation during his first three years in Alabama.
He is also a businessman, being the co-owner of Dream Motors, a luxury car dealership that he has partnered with former Mercedes-Benz USA CEO Steve Cannon.
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CBS Sports 2026 NBA mock draft has Duke rookie going first off the board
CBS Sports college basketball writer Kyle Boone recently set his new 2026 NBA mock draft, and has Duke basketball rookie Cameron Boozer headed first overall to the Utah Jazz. Boozer is expected to be one of the top freshmen in college hoops next season, but it hasn’t been seen much to have Boozer taken ahead […]

CBS Sports college basketball writer Kyle Boone recently set his new 2026 NBA mock draft, and has Duke basketball rookie Cameron Boozer headed first overall to the Utah Jazz. Boozer is expected to be one of the top freshmen in college hoops next season, but it hasn’t been seen much to have Boozer taken ahead of BYU’s AJ Dybantsa and Kansas’ Darryn Peterson, the two incoming rookies ranked ahead of Boozer.
” The son of NBA legend Carlos Boozer and the twin of another potential one-and-done from Duke, Cayden Boozer, Cameron is a near can’t-miss talent because of his built-out 6-foot-9 frame and powerful game.” Boone said in his analysis of Boozer. “He can score inside and out and has guard-like versatility with the ability to score at every level and make advanced reads for his position. Both Darryn Peterson and AJ Dybantsa are exciting prospects who could be the No. 1 pick, but Boozer is the one of the current big three I feel most confident will have a long and fruitful NBA career as a multi-time All-Star. One added wrinkle to watch here is that his father, Carlos, who played with Utah from 2004-2010 and was a fan favorite, joined the team’s front office earlier this year.”
Boozer is coming into Duke as one of the most decorated prospects high school basketball has ever seen. The big, along with his twin and fellow Duke freshman, Cayden Boozer, led Christopher Columbus High School to four state championships and a Chipotle Boys National Championship this past season.
He was also named Mr. Basketball USA in 2025, marking the incoming Blue Devil rookie’s second time winning the award. This put him on a list with Lebron James as the only two high school recruits to win the award twice. Boozer also won the award as a sophomore in 2023, becoming the first sophomore to ever receive the honors.
Boozer showed off his skills at the 2025 McDonald’s All-American game, tallying the game’s only double-double effort. The 6’9 forward put up 16 points and 12 rebounds in 23 minutes of action for the East squad.
Both Cameron and Cayden will have serious roles for Jon Scheyer in 2025-26 as Duke looks to build on a Final Four run that ended in heartbreaking fashion in 2024-25.
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Georgia Amoore opens up on season-ending injury, Mystics commitment to her during recovery
Former Virginia Tech and Kentucky star Georgia Amoore is sidelined for the entire 2025 WNBA season after suffering from a torn ACL before the start of her rookie season. The heartbreaking diagnosis came after she was selected No. 6 overall by the Washington Mystics. Amoore, having never played a single WNBA game in a league […]

Former Virginia Tech and Kentucky star Georgia Amoore is sidelined for the entire 2025 WNBA season after suffering from a torn ACL before the start of her rookie season. The heartbreaking diagnosis came after she was selected No. 6 overall by the Washington Mystics.
Amoore, having never played a single WNBA game in a league that has just 144 total roster spots, revealed that there was some worry about her future with the team after going down with the injury. The Mystics front office shut that fear down quickly.
“When I got injured, the GM (Jamila Wideman) and the head coach (Sydney Johnson) came to my apartment and told me what happened,” Amoore said, via Joshua Valdez on X. “I think I cried more not when they told me I had torn it, but when they said I’m still a Mystic, I’m still involved. It just meant the world to me. It’s the best recovery, to be around the team.”
Amoore will play her first WNBA season next year. In the meantime, she has the opportunity to soak up all of the knowledge that comes with being around WNBA-caliber players for an entire year. It’s sort of tweaked the way Amoore sees her role on the team. As a rookie in 2025, she’s doing just that.
“Initially, I’m a point guard,” Amoore said. “My job is to understand my teammates, run the team, to know all of that. Either way, going into my rookie year, I had to be a sponge. That’s something I can do with my brain — I don’t need my right ACL to do that. So I wanted to continue to do that and be as involved as possible, but it’s just perspective.
“It’s just an opportunity to learn. … That’s the best part of it.”
Amoore figures to be a major contributor to the Mystics’ efforts when she does return from injury. She was a star in college with both the Hokies and Wildcats, and enters the WNBA with hordes of experience under her belt.
Through five seasons across 157 games at the college level, Amoore averaged 15.7 points, 5.5 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 0.9 steals per game. That includes a career-best season this past year at UK, totaling 19.6 points, 6.9 assists, 2.3 rebounds and 1.0 steals per game on average.
Just a couple of months since undergoing surgery, videos on social media show that Amoore has recently been able to get back in the gym and put up shots in a limited fashion. As she continues to rehab her knee, the 2026 season likely can’t come soon enough for the first-round draft choice.
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