Nik Garcia News

Jabari Parker , a 6-5 freshman at Simeon and one of the area's top-rated players in the class of 2013, already has six college scholarship offers -- from Illinois, DePaul, Northwestern, Washington, Baylor and Brigham Young.

WHO: Bethune-Cookman at UCF TIPOFF: 5 p.m. at UCF Arena TV: Bright House Sports Network; RADIO: 740 AM BUZZ: UCF looks to bounce back from its 90-72 loss at Notre Dame.

Freshman guard Nik Garcia is leaving the UCF men's basketball program. He will likely be headed to a school closer to his family's home in Chicago.

On my way back from the Windy City ... posted by Iliana Limon on Dec 7, 2009 6:08:17 PM My apologies for the limited blog posts today.

A.J Rompza grew up in the shadow of the Notre Dame campus. Rompza was raised in Chicago, but his family is originally from South Bend.

Marcus Jordan wears black, square glasses and stands at 6'3" - three inches shorter than his famous father.

As basketball season approaches at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, the Knights look to get off to a fast start this Friday against the University of Massachusetts Minutemen.

The UCF men's basketball team is losing 36.5 percent of its scoring from last season, and that's if you only count Jermaine Taylor.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: ESPN.com and Scouts, Inc., listed UCF 's class as the seventh-best "non-BCS" group in the country.