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The Cornell Club of Boston presents as a special guest, Steve Donahue, the former Cornell men's basketball coach and current Boston College coach at the Cornell Club of Boston's annual meeting. The theme for the evening is "The Cornell Cinderella Story - A Courtside Evening with Coach Steve Donahue." The event is Thursday, June 3, 2010 at the Marriott Courtyard - Boston Downtown. Visit the Cornell Club of Boston website for more details.

Speaking of Donahue, Boston College signed this week, 6'6" Danny Rubin from the Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland. His coach Andy Luther told EagleAction.com that although Rubin's commitment might seem a little out of the blue to outsiders, it was actually a long process in the making. "It was late in the process and Danny had not signed any papers with other schools yet. He was admitted and was going to attend another school and be a preferred walk on. Coach Donahue and Coach Graham were recruiting Danny and came down and visited him in the spring last year and again this past fall. They stayed in touch and came and watched him play throughout the winter and really were evaluating him for Cornell. I think they wanted guys who could shoot like Danny but were probably about 3 or 4 inches taller, Danny is about 6'5". So as you know when they went to BC they were down to 8 scholarship players after a few guys left, and they were all Al Skinner's guys running his patented flex offense. None of those guys had played the same kind of wide open spread them out "5 around" or "4 out 1 in" offense that Cornell loves to run. Danny is more of that kind of player. So in the end it was a god fit," said Luther. Donahue and Boston College also recently signed 6'7" Eddie Odio from Christopher Columbus High School in Miami, FL. Odio told EagleAction.com that he was also recruited by Donahue and Graham while they were coaching at Cornell.

ESPN's Andy Katz explained in his column that the NCAA organized a mock NCAA Tournament bracket exercise at the National Association of Basketball Coaches two weeks ago in Indianapolis. The coaches serving on the mock committee used this past season's results to build a 2010 bracket and coincidentally duplicated some first-round matchups. "We followed all the rules," said St. Joseph's coach, Phill Martelli. "And yet we ended up still having Cornell playing Temple and Villanova playing Robert Morris. It wasn't contrived. It was eerie."