Stellar basketball recruiting; not-so-stellar Wooden Classic

ESPN.com has come out with its list of the top 150 basketball recruits in the nation and the Bruins’ class of 2007 has four spots . . . in the top 35!

>> No. 4: Guard Jrue Holiday (North Hollywood Campbell Hall)

>> No. 21: Guard Malcolm Lee (Riverside J.W. North)

>> No. 33: Forward Drew Gordon (San Jose Archbishop Mitty)

>> No. 35: Guard Jerime Anderson (Anaheim Canyon)

And in an interesting development for 2008, prep ace Eric Sondheimer of The Times has reported that 6-10 Renardo Sidney (pictured) is leaving Artesia High School for City power Fairfax. "He's going to change the landscape in the City," Woodland Hills Taft Coach Derrick Taylor told Sondheimer. "No one matches up with him."

Fairfax and coach Harvey Kitani are no strangers to UCLA basketball. The school sent two current Bruins – junior Josh Shipp and freshman Chace Stanback – to Westwood. Will Sidney be the third?

At the 2007 Wooden Classic, the opening game will feature (?) San Diego State and St. Mary’s with the Bruins and Davidson in the second game on December 8.

[Photo credit: Lawrence K. Ho/Los Angeles Times]