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    • St. Joe's, Villanova

    Two of the top seniors in the metropolitan area will wait until the spring to sign.

    David Bruce of Linden, whose verbal commitment to St. Joseph’s was broken here last month, and uncommitted wing Sherrod Wright of Mount Vernon will both go past Wednesday’s early signing period without inking a Letter of Intent.

    “I’d rather him wait until the spring to sign,” Linden coach Phil Colicchio said of the 6-foot-9, 215-pound Bruce. “It’s basically my decision. He’s 100 percent still going to St. Joe’s. Nobody else is recruiting him. Nobody else is calling him, nor will I field calls about him. His recruiting process is closed.”

    Bruce chose St. Joe’s over Seton Hall, St. John’s, Maryland, La Salle, Houston and other schools. He averaged 15 points, 9 rebounds and 3 blocks per game as a junior.

    Colicchio said Bruce needs to improve his academics before signing.

    Rutgers Football

    PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Greg Schiano agrees with President-elect Barack Obama on at least one thing.

    College football needs a playoff system.

    “I don’t want to disagree with the President Elect, so whatever he says goes,” Schiano, the Rutgers football coach, said during his press conference Monday that aired live on SNY.

    Obama endorsed a playoff system during an interview with Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday night.

    “If you’ve got a bunch of teams who play throughout the season, and many of them have one loss or two losses, there’s no clear decisive winner. We should be creating a playoff system,” he said.

    Syracuse

    SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse coach Greg Robinson was fired Sunday with the Orange nearing the end of a fourth straight dismal season under his leadership.

    Robinson, who will coach the final two games of this season, is 9-36 overall and 3-25 in the Big East. He had another year left on a contract that pays $1.1 million per season.

    Syracuse (2-8, 1-5 Big East) lost to Connecticut 39-14 Saturday night and is trying to avoid a third 10-loss campaign under Robinson with two games remaining. The Orange had never reached double-digit losses in a season before Robinson was hired by athletic director Daryl Gross in January 2005 to replace Paul Pasqualoni.

    Duke, Kansas, Rutgers

    Junior center Hamady Ndiaye scored a career-high 26 points and Rutgers shot 60 percent from the floor as the Scarlet Knights defeated Delaware, 85-77, in the Garden State Challenge Sunday afternoon at the Carpenter Center.

    Freshman guard Mike Rosario added 17 points and sophomore guard Corey Chandler chipped in 13 for Rutgers, which improves to 2-0.

    Seniors JR Inman and Jaron Griffin returned from their team-mandated suspensions to play their first games. Inman collected 2 points, 4 rebounds and 3 points in 16 minutes, while Griffin tallied 1 rebound and 1 assist in 4 minutes.

    “They’re doing a great job,” Rutgers head coach Fred Hill said Friday. “They’re doing everything that we’ve asked of them. That will be my decision [when they come back] and when I see that they’ve done everything that they needed to do, we’ll bring them back.”

    Louisville, Missouri, Seton Hall, UConn, Villanova

    NEWARK, N.J. — Seton Hall hopes their future big man was in the building for today’s 71-50 victory over Columbia at the Prudential Center.

    Jarrid Famous, a 6-foot-11, 235-pound center from Westchester Community College, sat behind the Seton Hall bench and was greeted by chants of “We want Famous.”

    “It was a good experience watching the Seton Hall Pirates play,” Famous, who sat with his younger sister and a friend, told me.

    Famous plans to wait until the spring to announce his school, and UConn, West Virginia, Villanova, Louisville and Missouri are also involved.

    Baylor, John Wall, Kansas, Memphis, Miami, N.C. State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Villanova

    Dominic Cheek and John Wall headlined a group of recruits visiting the Memphis campus this weekend.

    “So far I’ve had a great time, hung out with the players, asked them how it was,” the 6-foot-5 Cheek told the Memphis Commercial Appeal. “They said if you want to play for a coach that will push you to help you get to the next level, this is the school.”

    Cheek, a first-team All-State selection for St. Anthony head coach Bob Hurley, has now made officials to Kansas, Villanova and Memphis, with Rutgers slated for Nov. 21 and a visit date to Pittsburgh unclear.

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