Prep & College Recruiting

The early signing period for basketball (and several other sports) came and went earlier this week, and BYU’s basketball program still has one available scholarship to pass out.
The Cougars signed Provo guard Kyle Collinsworth and Anson Winder, a guard from Bishop Gorman High in Las Vegas.
It appears that the Cougars will play out this season, assess what needs they have, and sign a player in April -- probably a junior college transfer.
One candidate is Stephen Rogers, a 6-foot-8 redshirt freshman at Mesa Community College in Arizona. Rogers is averaging 20 points and seven rebounds a game for MCC so far this season.
After graduating from Mountain View High in Mesa in 2006, Rogers signed with the University of San Diego. But USD’s coach was fired while Rogers was on an LDS Church mission, and when he returned the new staff did not take him back.
So Rogers signed with Arizona State, and sat on the Sun Devils’ bench last year, redshirting. Now he’s at Mesa Community College, and flourishing.
He told ArizonaPreps.com that he is receiving interest from BYU, Boise State, Eastern Washington and Northern Arizona.
Southern Utah, Utah Valley State, Utah State and Fresno State have also kept tabs on him.
BYU has not offered Rogers, but is aware of him, according to someone who would know.

Southern Utah University has announced it has signed three basketball players to national letters of intent, including a former Alta High star who is currently on an LDS Church mission and a player from Idaho who has transferred to Alta.
Coach Roger Reid’s Thunderbirds have signed former Alta star Tyson Koehler, Mountain Crest center Cal Hanks and Kyle Davis, a senior at Centennial High in Boise, Idaho.
Koehler, a 6-9 sophomore, played at Grayson County College in Texas for a season after graduating from Alta, and is currently on a mission in North Carolina.
The T-birds signed him in 2008, but  had to re-sign him, due to NCAA rules. He averaged 9.6 points and 6.4 rebounds a game at Grayson, and was a first-team all-conference honoree.
Hanks is a 6-11 senior at Mountain Crest in the Cache Valley and was an all-region performer last season. He averaged 7.2 points, 9.2 rebounds and three blocks per game as a junior.
The Intermountain Hoops Scouting Service calls Hanks the top 2010 post prospect in Utah for this coming prep season.
Davis is a 6-7 senior who averaged 14 points and 10 rebounds for Centennial as a junior. He has moved to Utah, however, and will play for Alta this winter.

Bingham High’s Rachel Gines, a 6-foot-1 power forward, has signed to play college basketball for Dixie State College.
Gines was a second-team all-stater last year as a junior and also drew interest from Utah Valley University, Portland State, Idaho State and Southern Utah.
She plays for the Utah Flight summer league team and is also an excellent volleyball player.

 Josh Fuller, a 6-foot-7 Gatorade Player of the Year from Idaho, has committed to joining the Utah men's basketball program next season. Fuller averaged 17 points and eight rebounds last year for Madison H.S. in Rexburg, Idaho.

 Fuller is coming to Utah on an academic scholarship, according to his mother, Amber.

 "He's excited, with an exclamation point, exclamation point," she said. "He got the offer in July and we said this was all new to us and he wanted to look at other offers, but Utah is where he felt best."

 Fuller will be the fifth player in the class, joining others who signed letters of intent last week.

The Utah women's basketball team has announced its signees, among them is a last name that should be very familiar to those who know the history of the program.