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[1] THE MAIN EVENT

Prep school reps are on the line

As they drew a collective deep breath before beginning their long sojourns into July recruiting, plenty of college basketball coaches got a chance to exhale when they saw the NCAA's list of 16 prep schools from which the organization will not accept core credits.

Not a lot of heavy hitters on there, for sure.

More important, the NCAA released a "watch list" of 22 schools whose prospects will be cleared for entry in the 2006-07 freshman class, although those schools still face some issues in this evaluation process. That list reads like a who's who of prep school basketball--it includes Notre Dame Prep of Fitchburg, Mass; The Patterson School of Lenoir, N.C.; St. Thomas More of Oakdale, Conn.; Fork Union Military of Virginia; and, indeed, the granddaddy of them all, Virginia's Oak Hill Academy.

Players who competed at those schools and are scheduled to be freshmen this year will not face any scrutiny beyond that customarily paid to test scores and core courses. The list of players includes Paul Harris (Syracuse), Tywon Lawson (North Carolina) and Hashim Bailey (Memphis).

Whether this will cause any problems for players attending these prep schools and high schools in 2006-07 is unclear. The NCAA says these schools "cooperated in the review process" but that question remains. This is no small issue.