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C Byron 'B.J.' Mullens (Levanga Hokkaido Sapporo - Japan)

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7/12/05

Mullens was selected for the underclassmen all-star game at the Adidas camp this past week. Averaged over 15 pts., 7 rbs. and 3 blocks a game at camp.

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7/12/05

Mullens gets some love from USAToday.....even though they messed up his name.....at the bottom of the article.

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Some of the college basketball coaches at last week's ABCD camp are taking a wait-and-see approach to the new NBA age minimum.

Under the NBA's new collective bargaining agreement, top high school players cannot enter the draft until they're one year removed from high school and 19 years old.



Previously, players such as LeBron James and Dwight Howard, who were USA TODAY players of the year, weren't even recruited by colleges, which figured they were NBA-bound.

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Arizona coach Lute Olson wishes the NBA had gone even further.



"I was really disappointed they didn't put in the 20-year-old rule," Olson says. "We try to avoid situations where players will be with us for only one year. If a kid's around for at least two years, we'll go after him."



Olson was burned a couple of years ago. He landed All-USA forward Ndudi Ebi during the early signing period, then Ebi surprisingly declared for the NBA Draft after playing his senior season.



Florida Atlantic coach Matt Doherty says the age rule "will give coaches peace of mind because they can recruit a (top) player and have them in the program for at least a year."



Caracter issue: Senior Derrick Caracter, a 6-9 power forward from St. Patrick High in Elizabeth, N.J., says his college choice will be either Memphis or Louisville.



"College is the best choice," he says. "I'll work harder against better competition and play for former NBA coaches (John Calipari and Rick Pitino, respectively) who both know what it takes to reach the next level."



Camp highlights



Reebok ABCD- Center Greg Oden of Lawrence North (Indianapolis), USA TODAY's reigning player of the year, and 6-8 Damion James of Nacogdoches (Texas) were named top seniors. Oden has committed to Ohio State; James says he'll sign with Oklahoma. ... Guard O.J. Mayo of North College Hill (Cincinnati) and forward Kevin Love of Lake Oswego (Ore.), both juniors, were named the camp's top underclassmen. The 6-9 Love was the camp's fourth-leading scorer (14.7) and second in rebounds (8.1). ... Paul Harris, 6-4, of Niagara Falls (N.Y.) held Mayo to two points on 1-for-10 shooting in one game. Harris, who says he'll transfer to a prep school for his senior year, averaged a camp-best 15.6 points.



Nike All-America - Analyst Clark Francis of Hoopscooponline ranks 6-4 junior Jerryd Bayless of St. Mary's (Phoenix) as the Indianapolis camp's top player. Rounding out the top five were seniors 6-8 William Crews of Bethel (Hampton, Va.), 6-0 Tywon Lawson of Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Va.), 6-4 Jason Bohannon of Linn-Mar (Marion, Iowa) and 6-0 Sherron Collins of Crane (Chicago). ... Michael Jordan's 16-year-old son, Jeffrey, was one of 120 campers. Jeffrey, a 6-0, 170-pound junior, attends Loyola Academy (Wilmette, Ill.). His roommate at camp was Bellaire (Houston)'s Jai Lucas, the son of former NBA coach and player John Lucas.



Adidas Superstar USA - Senior MVPs at the Atlanta camp were Episcopal Academy (Merion, Pa.) teammates Wayne Ellington and Gerald Henderson Jr. The junior MVPs were 6-7 Michael Beasley of Oak Hill Academy and 6-4 Eric Gordon of North Central (Indianapolis). Junior 6-4 Nolan Smith of Oak Hill Academy and 6-11 sophomore Byron Mullins of World Harvest Christian (Canal Winchester, Ohio) also played well.

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jjhuddle.com (free)

11/2/05


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Ohio’s Best Boys Basketball Players
Buckeye state boasts more talent than ever before

By Steve Helwagen

Over the course of the summer, Ohio’s best boys basketball players showed their stuff in various AAU and summer camp events from coast to coast.
These events helped Ohio’s best players earn reputations as the nation’s very best. The national rankings supplied by ScoutHoops.com are dotted with players from Ohio.

Five of the current seniors are in the national top 100, led by Dayton Dunbar’s Daequan Cook at No. 16. Even better is the Class of 2007, where seven Ohio prospects are listed among the top 50. That group is led by the North College Hill duo of O.J. Mayo and Bill Walker, ranked first and fourth nationally, respectively.

The sophomore class in Ohio also boasts two of the nation’s top 15 prospects, including Cincinnati Hughes’ Yancey Gates at No. 5.

“You would be hard pressed to go back and find three years consecutively where there is this type of talent in the state of Ohio,” said HoopScoopOnline.com Ohio editor Chris Johnson. “And there is not only talent but also some size. In that sophomore class, there are four or five really good players who are already 6-8 or taller.”

The Ohio talent quotient would be even better if Herb Pope, a 6-8 forward considered a top-10 national junior, had followed through with his stated plan to transfer to a school in Ohio. Instead, he began the new school year at his old school in Aliquippa, Pa.

With the summer camp and AAU season over, Johnson has reassessed his lists of Ohio’s top prospects and updated them. The following is a look at the top prospects in each class in Ohio high school boys basketball, as rated by Johnson.

Sophomores-To-Be (Class of 2008)

* 3. B.J. Mullens, 6-10, center, Canal Winchester World Harvest Prep (SH, 14<SUP>th</SUP>) – Mullens, already offered and committed to Ohio State, averaged 11.3 points per game in his varsity debut season.
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1/13/06

• B.J. Mullens of Harvest Prep (5-3), who made news by committing to Ohio State before his freshman season, has continued to improve. Now 7-1 and 250 pounds, Mullens is averaging 17.4 points and 11 rebounds.

"He added about 15-20 pounds of muscle in the off-season and has gained a lot more confidence in his post play," Harvest Prep coach David Mobley said. "He’s in better shape and is a lot more mobile. He’s more assertive now, and that’s something you’d expect as he gets older."
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1/23/06

Review of Mullens performance at Monday’s Martin Luther King Day Challenge, by Steve Helwagen.

Mullens scored 21 points, 18 in the second half to help Harvest Prep defeat Licking Heights, 69-61. Mullens is now 7-1, 255 pounds and is averaging 18 points and 10 rebounds a game. Former OSU player, Will Dudley is an assitant coach and has been working with Mullens.

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