Aquille Carr

Former Baltimore prep basketball star Aquille Carr plans to pursue a professional career overseas instead of playing at Seton Hall next season, he announced Saturday evening after he scored 52 points in his final high school game. Carr, who played his senior season at Princeton Day Academy in Laurel, had strongly hinted at his intentions in an interview last month and again in a series of tweets last week. He verbally committed to Seton Hall early last year and maintained all along that if he played in college, that would be his destination.

Mount St. Joseph senior guard Kameron Williams will be one of 10 players on the United States All-Stars team at Sunday's 40th annual Capital Classic in Virginia. Williams, a three-time All-Metro first-team selection, averaged 21 points, three rebounds and two assists per game as the Gaels won the Baltimore Catholic League title this season. Headed for Ohio State, the 6-foot-2, 175-pound guard scored more than 2,000 points in three seasons at Mount St. Joseph. Aquille Carr, a two-time All-Metro Player of the Year who played his senior season at Princeton Day, will play on the Capital All-Stars squad in the feature game against the U.S. All-Stars at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va. The U.S. All-Stars and Capital All-Stars are scheduled to play in the second game of a doubleheader at 4 p.m. The District All-Stars will play the Suburban All-Stars at 2 p.m. For the complete rosters for both games, click here . For more information, including tickets, click here .

It's been tough sledding of late for the Patterson boys basketball team. Previously No. 1 in our poll, the Clippers (8-5) followed Friday's 64-55 loss to rival Dunbar with an 89-63 loss Saturday to St. Benedict's at the Dan Finn Classic in Jersey City and a 75-73 defeat on a buzzer-beater Monday at Gonzaga (D.C.). But those results never get in the way of enjoying an Aquille Carr highlight reel. Here are a couple videos from Monday's game from TheMarsReel.com (which includes the game-winner by Gonzaga's Kris Jenkins)

Former Baltimore prep basketball star Aquille Carr plans to pursue a professional career overseas instead of playing at Seton Hall next season, he announced Saturday evening after he scored 52 points in his final high school game. Carr, who played his senior season at Princeton Day Academy in Laurel, had strongly hinted at his intentions in an interview last month and again in a series of tweets last week. He verbally committed to Seton Hall early last year and maintained all along that if he played in college, that would be his destination.

Aquille Carr confirmed Tuesday what he appeared to reveal to the world on Twitter last week: the 5-foot-7 point guard is headed to Seton Hall. Carr, a junior, originally planned to hold a news conference at Patterson on Thursday morning to announce where he planned to go, but it was canceled because the school has high school assessment testing throughout the week. "It feels great knowing that I had a top school looking at me," Carr, the 2011 Baltimore Sun All-Metro boys basketball Player of the Year, said Wednesday.

The junior point guard led the Clippers to their first state championship, scoring 28 points with 8 assists and 6 steals in an 86-75 victory over Thomas Stone in Saturday's Class 3A final. On Thursday night,Carr scored 24 points in a 70-46 semifinal win over Tuscarora, 70-46. He has averaged 24.5 points and 5 assists this season. Coach Harry Martin says his 5-foot-6 dynamo is "one of the quickest players in the country with the ball in his hands. " Carr has verbally committed to Seton Hall.

Aquille Carr, a star basketball guard at Patterson High School whose electrifying play earned him the nickname "Crimestopper," was released from jail late Saturday after being arrested on a domestic assault charge. Carr, 18, a 5-foot-6 point guard who was The Baltimore Sun's two-time All-Metro Player of the Year, is accused of throwing his former girlfriend to the ground outside a Southeast Baltimore trade school and kicking and punching her, records show. The rising senior announced in January that he had committed to play basketball at Seton Hall in the 2013 season.

Local basketball fans will have a chance to see former Patterson guard Aquille Carr play this weekend just down the road from Baltimore. Carr, a two-time Baltimore Sun All-Metro Player of the Year, will lead his Princeton Day Academy squad in the National High School Hoops Festival at DeMatha. Carr's PDA squad faces Huntington (W.Va.) Prep on Sunday at 4:45 p.m. Huntington features Andrew Wiggins, the No. 1-ranked player in the 2013 class according to Rivals.com and Scout.com. At least one primary Maryland target will also be in attendance this weekend.

It was business as usual for Patterson junior guard Aquille Carr in Thursday's Class 3A state semifinal game against Tuscarora. At Comcast Center, Carr scored a game-high 24 points in a 70-46 win that sent the No. 3 Clippers to Saturday's state title. The rest of the night - carrying into this morning - was far from the norm for Carr, however.  At approximately 6:35 a.m. this morning, Carr, 18, became a father when his girlfriend, Treshonda, gave birth to a baby girl they named Averi.

Coppin Academy's Josh Adeyeye, a 6-4 1/2 guard/forward, had another consistently fine week on the basketball court with back-to-back multipurpose productions: He scored 22 points, pulled down 10 rebounds and blocked five shots against ACCE Academy and two nights later scored 33 points while grabbing eight rebounds, blocking three shots and handing out four assists against St. John's Catholic Prep. For the season, Adeyeye is averaging 32 points, eight rebounds and three blocks. "He's our team captain," coach William Wiley said.

Former Baltimore prep basketball star Aquille Carr will announce his intentions for next season after his final high school game on Saturday, said his coach at Laurel's Princeton Day Academy, Van Whitfield. Carr set off a new round of speculation about his plans with a series of tweets early Tuesday that seemed to indicate he will seek a professional deal. Carr strongly hinted in a February interview that he planned to test the overseas market instead of attending Seton Hall , the school to which he had been orally committed since early last year.

LAUREL - Good luck reducing Aquille Carr's story to a tweet or a television sound bite. Has the Baltimore prep basketball sensation grown into a man? Well, the calendar says so, as do his daughter, about to celebrate her first birthday, and his talk of the sport as a job. He hinted strongly in a recent interview that he's ready to bypass college in favor of seeking an overseas professional offer for next year. “Seton Hall is still my choice right now,” he said of the school to which he committed orally last year.

Much of the buzz inside the packed gym at St. Frances on Monday night was focused on the return of former Patterson star Aquille Carr, who was back in Baltimore playing for his new team, Princeton Day Academy. While the 5-foot-7 guard, a two-time All-Metro Player of the Year, had his moments, it was the host Panthers who stole the show with poised play in the closing minutes. St. Frances scored the final six points in the last 2 minutes, 10 seconds, getting clutch baskets from Kurk Lee Jr. and Dwayne Morgan before Tevon Saddler sealed the win with two free throws in the closing seconds to secure a 72-66 win over Beltsville-based Princeton Day in front of an overflow crowd.

Princeton Day Academy at No. 3 St. Frances When: Monday, 7 p.m. Coaches: Van Whitfield, Princeton Day; Nick Myles, St. Frances KEY PLAYERS TO WATCH Princeton Day: Aquille Carr, senior, guard; Anton Waters, senior, forward St. Frances: Tevon Saddler, senior, guard; Maurice White, senior, guard; Dwayne Morgan, junior, forward; Kurk Lee Jr., sophomore, guard KEYS TO VICTORY All eyes will be on...

Local basketball fans will have a chance to see former Patterson guard Aquille Carr play this weekend just down the road from Baltimore. Carr, a two-time Baltimore Sun All-Metro Player of the Year, will lead his Princeton Day Academy squad in the National High School Hoops Festival at DeMatha. Carr's PDA squad faces Huntington (W.Va.) Prep on Sunday at 4:45 p.m. Huntington features Andrew Wiggins, the No. 1-ranked player in the 2013 class according to Rivals.com and Scout.com. At least one primary Maryland target will also be in attendance this weekend.

Nine Baltimore-area boys basketball players are committed to Division I programs , but at least one won't sign during the fall period, which begins Wednesday. Former Patterson guard Aquille Carr doesn't plan to sign with Seton Hall during the week-long signing period, according to his high school coach. Is the two-time Baltimore Sun All-Metro Player of the Year still committed to the Pirates? "Absolutely," said Van Whitfield , Carr's coach at Princeton Day Academy in Beltsville.

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Baltimore prep basketball star Aquille Carr is on the move again, this time back to Maryland, where he plans to play his senior season at Princeton Day Academy in Beltsville, said the school's coach, Van Whitfield. Just last week, the two-time Baltimore Sun All-Metro Player of the Year enrolled at Arlington Country Day, a private basketball power in Jacksonville, Fla., according to that school's coach, Rex Morgan. But Whitfield said Carr merely visited Arlington Country Day before deciding it was too far from home.