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Boys’ basketball: Decisions, decisions

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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It looks as if Jeremy Tyler will keep Ben Howland, Tim Floyd and probably about a dozen or so other college coaches hanging until at least this time next year.

The San Diego High junior forward declined to discuss which colleges he was seriously considering, saying, ‘I’m not even into that right now.’ Gary Franklin, who coaches Tyler’s California Supreme club team, said both UCLA and USC were in the mix along with Arizona and Connecticut, among others.

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Tyler did say that he would start narrowing his focus around this time next year.

‘He’s got a lot of offers and can kind of dictate anywhere he wants to go,’ Franklin said.

Franklin’s son, Gary Jr., a junior guard at Santa Ana Mater Dei High who led all scorers with 21 points today during Supreme’s 79-70 victory over Houston Hoops in the Main Event championship in Las Vegas, also has not picked a school. His father said he was considering Arizona, Utah, Baylor, San Diego State, California and Stanford.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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