Recruiting update!

Over the last couple of days, there have been a number of big time recruits committing to a school:

• Jeremy Lamb, a 6'4" shooting guard out of Norcross, Georgia and the 68th best player according to Rivals, has committed to UConn. Want an idea of how good Norcross High is? Lamb got a scholarship to UConn despite averaging just 11 ppg in 15 mpg as a junior.
• UVa landed James Johnson, a 6'9" big man from California. Johnson is a top 100 recruit (99th by Rivals, but 31st according to Scout) and cancelled trips to Arizona and Oklahoma after visiting Charlottesville.
• Bruce Ellington, who was being recruited for both football and basketball, has committed to South Carolina to play point guard. The 5'10" South Carolina native is rated 94th by Rivals and 52nd by Scout.
• LSU has gotten a commitment from Ralston Turner, a 6'5" wing from Alabama rated at the bottom of the top 150 by both Rivals and Scout.
  

In other news, Harrison Barnes, one of the top three recruits in the country, recently trimmed his list down to six - Duke, UNC, Kansas, UCLA, Oklahoma, and Iowa State. The Ames, Iowa, native was thought by many to be leaning heavily towards Coach K an the Dookies, but after a weekend trip to Chapel Hill, things may have swung in another direction.

From the Charlotte Observer:

The Heels all but rolled out the red carpet at the Smith Center when Barnes made his official recruiting visit and took in UNC's Pro Alumni basketball game on Sept. 4.

Barnes' mother, Shirley, once taped many of Michael Jordan's games after he left North Carolina and was doing his thing for the Chicago Bulls, just in case she one day had a son. In May 1992, when she did give birth, her son was named Harrison Bryce-Jordan Barnes.

So here was Harrison Bryce-Jordan Barnes, on a Friday night at the Smith Center. Standing barely 15 feet away on the court was Jordan, MJ himself, basking in the roars of an adoring crowd before the alumni game.

Also on the court were such NBA players as Vince Carter, Antawn Jamison and Jerry Stackhouse. There was former coach Dean Smith, and NBA coaches Larry Brown and George Karl, all back in Chapel Hill to help kick off the school's 100th basketball anniversary.

Barnes would watch and clap as the Heels unveiled their 2009 NCAA championship banner that night. The next day, at the football opener at Kenan Stadium, he would see the Heels receive their new NCAA championship rings.

So while Barnes was at UNC, he met countless NBA players and former coaches (including Jordan himself), he watched these NBA stars play in UNC alumni game, he helped raise the 2009 national championship banner, and watched as the Heels received their rings.

Does any other school stand a chance?