Julius Randle recently spoke about his college visits as he weights his choices. Randle is beginning his junior year in high school.

"I talked to coach (Russell) Springmann at Texas recently about what Kevin Durant said about starting his “Julius Randle to Texas” campaign, which was pretty cool," wrote Randle. "So we talked about that and talked about me getting up there for a visit soon. I haven’t been there since my freshman year so I’m thinking about going to the football game against Oklahoma State.

"I'm definitely planning on going to Duke for Midnight Madness for sure. I talked to Baylor and Oklahoma and told them I’d be visiting. Also, I want to go to Texas Christian for their game against SMU.

"Recently, I decided that I’ll be going to Kansas for the Legends game on October 24 and I spoke with Ohio State last week about visiting for a football game because I know that will be a really fun experience."

The Sporting News announced their preseason All-American teams.

Harrison Barnes of North Carolina, Jared Sullinger of Ohio State, Perry Jones of Baylor, Anthony Davis of Kentucky and Jeremy Lamb of UConn were named to the first team.

The second team consists of Jordan Taylor of Wisconsin, John Shurna of Northwestern, Terrence Jones of Kentucky, Thomas Robinson of Kansas and Tyler Zeller of North Carolina.

Austin Rivers of Duke, John Jenkins of Vanderbilt, Tu Holloway of Xavier, Doug McDermott of Creighton and Ashton Gibbs of Pitt round out the third team.

Point guard LJ Rose has given a verbal commitment to Baylor University, according to his father.

“We decided after long deliberation that Baylor is the best fit for L.J. right now,” Lynden Rose said.  “I’ve known Scott Drew for 10 years. We’re comfortable (with Baylor) based on the Christian education and values.”

Rose is a top-100 recruit, who has also been considering Georgetown, Virginia and Houston.