There's a long line of Division One players from the Texas D1 Ambassadors over the years. Our hallmark has been  great TEAMS who along with individual accolades, win numerous championships.  The next group poised to take their place at that level is the 2014 Edition coached by recently retired Pflugerville High legend Mike Murphy and another Texas Ex player, Craig Carlton. In every 17u event they've entered ...

In a recruiting coup that could end up being compared to history's biggest thefts, Texas Southern in the SWAC ended up getting 2012 Post 6'9" Aly Mohamed's name on a NLOI. Mohamed was originally committed to Rice.  In recent weeks he visited Drexel and San Jose State.  He had offers from Pepperdine and Nebraska.  Florida came in to Trent International to watch him work out.  He might have been a hair under ...

Stephen F. Austin Head Coach Danny Kaspar is a tough guy.  He gets everything imaginable out of his players and then some.  They've won more than their share of games in the Southland Conference over the years with toughness and he doesn't mind putting the ball in the hands of undersized guards. [caption id="attachment_10866" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Adam Perez: Compliments of Clark Cougar S ...

  The Texas D1 Ambassadors have churned out over 100 Division One basketball players in the 8 graduating classes of their existence.  It doesn't just stop with basketball though as many of our younger players are multi sport athletes in basketball, football and track. The Milwaukee Bucks Darrington Hobson, and McDonald's All Americans John Henson (North Carolina) and Rasheed Sulaimon (Duke) are several ...

In a whirl wind of a weekend, San Antonio Warren's 2012 W 6'7" Taurean Waller Prince went from having committed to Long Island in the NEC... to looking for a scholarship... to 72 hours later wearing the green and gold of the Baylor Bears in the formidable Big XII. [caption id="attachment_10792" align="aligncenter" width="233" caption="2012 Taurean Waller Prince at the D1 Nation I-35 Challenge Oct/2011"][/ca ...

The SEC's Vanderbilt Commodores will get infused this summer by the presence of two Texas D1 Ambassadors stars.  2012 G Carter Josephs a defensive stalwart from San Antonio Clark has committed to Vandy.  Possessing an SAT score of over 2000 it was a no brainer for Josephs to pick a high academic situation in which to pursue his hoops dreams.  [caption id="attachment_10787" align="aligncenter" width="220" ca ...

Last night I had a rewarding conversation with Coach Robert Griggs of Brazosprt HS (TX).  The purpose of the call, to discuss his son 2012 G D.J. Griggs (Brazosport) and his commitment to Long Island University.  Griggs commitment makes it 5 Texans on the Northeast Conference Champion Blackbirds, winers of 27 straight conference home games (second only to Kentucky). Griggs will join fellow Texas D1 Ambassad ...

[video id="NIUytL-FbI4" type="youtube"] One of the reasons Louisiana State University hired Johnny Jones away from North Texas as their new Head Coach was the desire to keep all that top Louisiana talent at home at the State's Flagship University.  One of his first moves was to bring one of "The Boot's" own back in 6'6" W Shavon "Sugar" Coleman of Thibodeaux. Coleman was a top 100 player back in the Class o ...

The Best Buy Mile High Classic is the latest in a long line of National Tournament Championships for the  D1 Ambassadors.  Over the years D1 has snagged 4 Houston Kingwood Classic Championships, 4 Great American Shootouts, 2 National AAU Final Fours, Las Vegas Live, Atlantic Slam etc etc. The Texas D1 Ambassadors-Team Morse squad brought home another title beating last week's Best Buy Spring Classic Champio ...

  Random Thoughts The Spring of 2012 was another "banner" year for NCAA Division 1 coaching changes.  To this point 40 jobs have changed hands with a few more to come as there are still vacancies at Grambling, Southern Miss, Brown and Virginia Tech. Things only get better for the D1 Nation as many of the new hires are old friends of mine.  These are guys we've placed kids with in the past at other scho ...