Aaron Scales, a 6-foot-9, 250-pound power forward prospect from the American Basketball Institute in Charlotte, N.C., announced he has de-committed from Missouri.

His coach, John Jordan, who made the announcement in an email to several media members, cited the uncertain outcome of the NCAA investigation into allegations of impropriety by Frank Haith while at Miami as the reason for Scales to change his mind.

“Actually, he’s been thinking about it for the last few weeks. It’s just a tough situation,” Jordan said in a phone interview Monday morning. “He really likes Coach Haith. He’d love to play for him, but with these allegations pending, it’s a situation where we just can’t gamble on this kind of situation.”

Willie Cauley has committed to Kentucky as a member of the class of 2012.

Cauley is a 7-foot, 230 pound center generally considered as a top-40 member of his class.

Cauley plays at Olathe (Kan.) Northwest.

“I would say he’s a very, very high-level run and jump athlete,” Rivals.com Eric Bossi said. “And he’s also very fluid from side-to-side. He can get from one end of the floor to the other better (than most big men). His offense needs some work but I wouldn’t say he’s totally raw.

Shabazz Muhammad is on an official visit to USC this weekend with Dewayne Dedmon as his host.

Muhammad made an unofficial visit in August.

Muhammad's father, Ron Holmes, played for the USC men's basketball team from 1981 to 1985.

From the time Michael Beasley was 14-years-old, Joel Bell and Curtis Malone conspired a relationship with him in order to secure the rights to represent him professionally, according to a civil suit filed in Montgomery County Circuit Court.

Beasley asserts that Bell financially backed Malone's DC Assualt team and that in return Malone felt obliged to direct Beasley to Bell for professional representation.

Beasley’s suit contends that, along the way, Bell and Malone violated NCAA rules and federal laws governing agent conduct.

Beasley’s accusations are part of a countersuit against Bell and a third-party claim against Malone filed Sept. 27 in Montgomery County Circuit Court in response to a Jan. 21 breach-of-contract suit filed by Bell Sports Inc. against Beasley. Bell’s original suit claims Beasley wrongfully terminated his representation agreement with Bell Sports Inc. just prior to signing an endorsement deal with Adidas.

DaJuan Coleman has committed to Syracuse.

Coleman, a 6-foot-10, 280 pound big, is one of the top-20 players in the class of 2012.

Coleman also considered Kentucky and Ohio State.

Cole Huff, a 6-foot-7, 200-pound small forward from Campbell Hall High in North Hollywood, tweeted Monday night that he has orally committed to play for Nevada next season.

Huff took an official recruiting visit to Nevada last weekend. He was scheduled to take a trip to UTEP this weekend but decided to end his recruitment.

"There aren't that many players with his body and length that can shoot it like he can," Campbell High coach Steve Wachs said. 

Huff, who originally committed to San Diego State before de-committing over the summer, chose Nevada over offers from Pepperdine, UC Irvine, Denver and UTEP, among others.

Rick Barnes said Myck Kabongo has all the tools to become the next great point guard for a program that has produced standouts such as T.J. Ford and D.J. Augustin. 

"He's somewhere in between those two," Barnes said of Kabongo. "He's extremely fast like T.J., but T.J. would pace his game. Myck is a more full throttle. Forget the cruise control. He'd be great this weekend at Talledega. He can beat everyone down the floor with the ball, but he's going to learn to change his pace from time to time so our team can get into a flow." 

Kabongo played high school ball for hard-nosed coach Dan Hurley at St. Benedict's Prep. 

"He got me ready, mentally," Kabongo said of Hurley. "Some of these [freshmen] have never been at schools where coaches are going to get after them every day. That's what Coach Barnes does. I just let the young guys know, ‘You can't take it personal. It's part of the game. You've got to be coachable. You can't let what he says on the court affect you off the court.'" 

Barnes couldn't say enough good things about Kabongo's attitude -- "I've never seen him in a bad mood."

Miller Grove High School of Georgia is ranked second in the country.

Last season, they were a preseason unranked before finishing No. 6.

“I don’t remember it because it didn’t happen,” said Sharman White, Miller Grove's head coach. “No one really even knew that the rankings came out. I guess that’s because we weren’t in them. Things are different this year.” 

“This year people will definitely see us coming,” said Tony Parker, a senior forward and last year’s ESPNHS National Junior of the Year. “The response has been a lot different this year when the rankings came out.”

The Wolverines will get their chance to climb on Jan. 7 when they face No. 1 Simeon (Chicago) in the Cancer Research Classic.

“Every year is different,” said Parker, who is ranked No. 31 by ESPN. “We haven’t played one game yet and we haven’t been through any adversity yet. It’s just a number to us, and it isn’t even the number we want. We want the one before that. How can we be excited about that?” 

Richard Longrus of Bishop O'Dowd has verbally committed to Washington State, according to a source.

Longrus, a 6-foot-6 small forward, also was considering Colorado, Stanford and Utah.

Kaleb Tarczewski is visiting Arizona on Thursday, which will be his final official recruiting visit.

Tarczewski has narrowed his choices between Arizona and Kansas.

The big man visited Kansas last weekend."He had a great visit at KU but is looking forward to Arizona this weekend," John Carroll, Tarczewski's travel-team coach, told the Star via text message.