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News broke yesterday that the University of Washington Basketball program had received its first commit in the 2009 recruiting class.   The commit is C.J. Wilcox, a 6′5″ guard out of Pleasant Grove, Utah.  The reaction to this signing has been intriguing. 

Many UW followers seem mystified by the fact that UW had offered Mr. Wilcox a scholarship, based largely on the fact that Wilcox is somewhat of an unknown.  In today’s information age, talent is identified early, followed extensively, and covered exhaustingly until they make their choice of college known to the world.  Especially in basketball with the AAU circuit and other traveling select teams, there is hardly a Division I prospect playing in the United States that doesn’t have some ink dedicated to his name somewhere.

To be sure, Wilcox is not a complete unknown.  He is more aptly described as “under the radar” of major college basketball coverage at the moment.  Wilcox has not played a lot of AAU basketball and apparently his father has made a point of keeping out of the spotlight, preferring to have his son play and work out in a more private setting.  Wilcox has garnered some scholarship offers from Division I programs such as Utah, Florida State, Miami, etc., but again, in todays world of information saturation, he has been covered much less than some of his peers.

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