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SF William Buford - 4 BTT Title Games, most Buckeye starts (Virtus Roma - Italy)

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2007 Rbk Eurocamp to Host Top Players from across the World

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For the fifth consecutive year, the best players from around the world will descend on Italy to showcase their skills and athleticism at the Rbk Eurocamp. The 2007 Rbk Eurocamp will take place from June 9-12 and will be held at the La Ghirada sports complex in Treviso, Italy.

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For the first time, as part of Reebok?s Rbk U grassroots basketball program, Rbk Eurocamp will host a high school All-Star team from the United States. Some of the brightest prep players from the United States including standouts William Buford (Ohio State commitment), Isaiah Thomas (Washington commitment), Kenny Frease (Xavier commitment) and Malcolm Lee (UCLA commitment) are slated to test their skills against Europe?s finest. Other All-Star clubs scheduled to visit Rbk Eurocamp include Under-20 national teams from both Russia and Italy.

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From the Toledo blade;

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Buford, Miles in top 100 for high school basketball


A pair of Toledo basketball players are named in the the recent Sporting News Super 99, the best of the 2008 high school class.

All-Blade player of the year William Buford of Libbey High School is ranked 15th. Buford a guard/forward listed at 6-foot-4, 180 pounds, has committed to Ohio State.

Buford averaged 28.4 points and 12.3 rebounds per game while leading the Cowboys to a 19-1 regular-season finish, a City League championship and a No. 3 final state ranking. Former Libbey player Nate Miles, a 6-6, 200-pound forward who left the city to play basketball is ranked 24th. Miles attended Oak Hill Academy in Virginia, Waite, Cornerstone Christian Academy in San Antonio and now is attending Notre Dame Prep in Fitchburg, Mass. He has committed to the University of Connecticut after once committing to Xavier.
 
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RBK U - Sunday Night Session

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Lost in the Howell hype in game two was William Buford's (Toledo Libby/Toledo/2008 - committed to Ohio St.) performance. He matched Howell's total of 23 points and did it in a variety of ways including hitting 3-of-6 from deep. His shot mechanics are very good and he elevates on his shot very nicely making him very difficult to block. He looks be the next in a long line of successful shooting guards to go through Columbus following the footsteps of Jimmy Jackson, Michael Redd and Daequan Cook.

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RBK U - Day One - Morning Session Games

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For team Yao, William Buford (Libby H.S., Toledo, OH) lived up to the Rip Hamilton comparisons. He never stopped moving the entire game, always looking for a screen to run off of. Unlike Rip, Buford only hit on 6-of-16 attempts from the floor, but did lead his team with 14 points. Finishing a close second in scoring to Buford was another 2008 swingman by the name of Darius Miller (Mason Co. H.S., Maysville, KY) who is drawing strong interest from nearly every team in the SEC, most notably Kentucky. He finished with a solid 13 points on 4-of-7 from the field.

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Philly Inquirer

Ohio St. recruit shines at camp

By Keith Pompey

Inquirer Staff Writer

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RON CORTES / Inquirer Staff Photographer
William Buford Jr. (center), who has committed to Ohio State, fights for rebounding position during one of yesterday's games at the RBK U camp at Philadelphia University.
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It was a never-ending sequence of torture. Day after day, William Buford Jr. headed to the park across the street from his Toledo, Ohio, home to play basketball. He always returned distraught an hour later.
"Playing with the older people, they used to always push me around," Buford said. "They used to make me go home crying. . . . My brother [Ryan Rayford] used to also send me home crying."


Eight years later, he is the one upsetting people.



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The article mentions Buford as being "well-spoken and likeable." Besides that, I find it intriguing that a Philly paper would write a few paragraphs about an Ohio kid who isn't even going to school anywhere in Pennsylvania. He must have caught some people's attention while he was out there in Philly.
 
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graveyard.roses;880473; said:
Heck yeah. I'm getting more and more excited about watching William play. He seems to be the real deal. I've read nothing but good things about him.
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He's definitely proven to be the real deal at the HS level in the last 12-18 months. Count me in as anxiously waiting for his arrival in the 'Bus.
 
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