Frank Burlison

It figured.

Kyle Anderson, of St. Anthony in Jersey City, NJ, is probably one of the most active high school participants in the Twitter Universe.

He’s also one of the most gifted high school basketball players in any universe.

So, a little more than an hour ago, he announced his college choice to his 4,246 Twitter followers – and gosh-only-knows how many others via re-tweeting – by way of his @KyleAnderson5 “Vinny Chase” account the night before his 18^th birthday.

Anderson – the most skilled player in the national class of 2012 – obviously is a big Entourage fan.

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Things  didn’t end quite the way anyone had anticipated Sunday afternoon – with the Shabazz Muhammad-led Las Vegas Bishop Gorman team playing on Court 2 in the third-place game.

That’s because the California Supreme squad had its own designs on winning the Fullcourt Press Fall Hoops Classic at the HAX (in the Los Angeles community of Harbor City, just down Western Avenue from Narbonne High).

And that’s what happened, as the Gary Franklin Sr.-coached squad knocked off Gorman (referred to as “The Las Vegas Orangemen” in the event), 80-76, in the semifinals and then Long Beach Poly (“The Jackrabbits”), 53-46, in the final a couple of hours later.

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The Shabazz Muhammad-led “Las Vegas Orangemen” overpowered the Grant Jerrett-fronted “La Verne Trojans” Saturday night, 80-68, in a battle of two of the top high school squads in the west during the Fullcourt Press Fall Hoops Classic at the HAX in Harbor City in Southern California.

The “Orangemen”, of course, is the team of players from Bishop Gorman while the “Trojans” are the squad that will represent one of Southern California’s best in 2011-12, La Verne Lutheran.

In other quarterfinals Saturday evening, the “Jackrabbits” (Long Beach Poly High) edged Branch West Elite, 63-61, on Jordan Bell’s 5-footer along the right baseline in “sudden death” after a couple of two-minute overtime; the Cali Rebels got a buzzer-beating bucket by Huntington Beach (CA) Ocean View freshman guard Kendall Small to stun Belmont Shore, 69-67; and California Supreme outlasted Cal Select, 82-73.

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Are you immune to the college (football) spirit?

Is the thought of being forced to watch an NFL game and listen to all the drivel flowing from the mouths of those equating it with something entertaining or important provide you with a nice definition of “painfully dull”?

Then I definitely have an entertainment option for you over a stretch of 25 hours or so this weekend in Southern California.

Three squads of players making up three of the better high school teams in the west, along with assorted other nifty prospects playing on 13 other travel squads will make up the field of the Fullcourt Press Fall Hoops Classic at the HAX in Harbor City (1515 240^th Street) this Saturday and Sunday.

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I’ve been a member of the John R. Wooden Award advisory committee for quite a while and one of the annual duties in the role is contributing 50 nominees for the list of the award’s preseason candidates that will be released to the public in a few weeks.

Transfers (including those athletes who red-shirted at their current school a year ago) and freshmen aren’t eligible for this initial list but, you can assume that those two categories will impact the mid-season list.

Not surprisingly, a large number — 36 — of my selections come from the six “BCS” conferences, with the Big Ten’s 10 leading the way followed by the SEC and Big East with seven each.

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