Checking in on Tempe ...
... where Herb Sendek got a huge early boost with the recent verbal commitment of James Harden.
Harden's one of the top-ranked shooting guards in the Class of 2007. Scout.com rates him as the fourth best player at that position in the country. Granted, UCLA came in the picture late, and Sendek had to play the "hire the high school coach" card, by making Harden's old coach at Artesia (Calif.) High the Sun Devils' director of basketball operations. Still, it's an impressive get, and perhaps more importantly, a very loud statement that things will be different for ASU under the new regime.
The Sun Devils beat out Washington, the new force in the PAC-10 and Arizona, the big bully next door, to get Harden. Add that in with the transfer of former Duke big man Eric Boateng (don't forget, the guy was a McDonald's All-American) and its clear that Sendek has made a splash in the desert.
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Sendek gets Boateng??? Whoa. How does that happen? Did he try to recruit Boateng to State previously?
Posted on August 10, 2006 2:38 PM