BeeJay Anya is considering 16 schools, including Final Four members Ohio State, Kansas, Louisville.

“I’m just trying to take it one step at a time right now,” Anya said.

The 6-foot-9, 270-pound Anya is also looking at Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Virginia, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Rutgers, Memphis, UCLA, Arizona, Indiana, Notre Dame, Seton Hall and DePaul.

He is considered a top-20 prospect in the class of 2013.

Arizona and UNLV are out of the race to sign basketball star Shabazz Muhammad

"It's at three right now, yeah," Muhammad said. "UCLA, Kentucky and Duke. Right now, those are probably the last three before I make my decision."

Muhammad, Naismith National Player of the Year, said he liked UNLV and Kansas, but wanted to be honest with coaches who kept ringing his phone.

"I just think it was the calls," Muhammad said. "The schools that I took out, I liked them, but I wasn't really interested in going. I didn't want to lead them on. I want them to do the best they can to recruit other players and not recruit me anymore. I just thought that was the mature thing to do."

Muhammad was awarded MVP honors Wednesday in the McDonald's All-American Game, scoring 21 points to lead the West to a 106-102 victory.

"When you come to every event, you want to be known as the best player at the event," he said. "Knowing everybody's talented, this is the elite 24, top 24 guys in the country, and just coming in knowing everybody's competing, competing is a beautiful thing."

Shabazz Muhammad seems to have narrowed his college choices.

“I’m considering five but there are three that [stand out],” Muhammad announced.

UCLA, Duke, and Kentucky (in no order) have put themselves in the forefront, with Kansas and UNLV rounding out the top five.

Muhammad is expected to announce his decision on April 11 — the first day of the spring signing period which runs through May 16.

Tony Parker will announce where he intends to go to college “on the 11th,” his father, Virgil, confirmed.

Parker, a 6-foot-8, 270 pound power forward, averaged 18 points, 14 rebounds and four blocks a game this season for Lithonia Miller Grove High School as the team captured its fourth-straight state title.

He is seriously considering UCLA, Kansas, Duke, Ohio State, Memphis and Georgia.

Shabazz Muhammad will announce where he intends to go to college on April 11 — the first day of the spring signing period which runs through May 16.

“This is a lifetime decision for me. I have to make sure I make the right decision,” Muhammad said. “I’m still being patient with it. The process is going good right now. April 11 is when I will announce it.”

Muhammad, the consensus No. 2 overall prospect, is considering UCLA, Duke, Arizona, Kansas, Kentucky and UNLV.

Shabazz Muhammad is scheduled to make an official visit to UCLA in early April.

“I think Coach [Ben] Howland wanted him to come at the beginning of April, for that weekend in the beginning April [6-8], but I know that’s close to the Jordan Game, so I have to look at those dates,” Muhammad’s father, Ron Holmes confirmed. “I’m not exactly sure but that’s when I’ve got it penciled in for.”

Muhammad, who is seriously considering UCLA, Duke, Arizona, Kansas, Kentucky and UNLV, plans to announce his college decision within a week or two of his visit with the Bruins.

“That’s going to be our last official visit,” Holmes said of the UCLA visit. “Then I think he’s going to decide on the 9th or the 10th, something like that. He’ll do something at his high school [to announce].”

Shabazz Muhammad is glad Ben Howland will remain at UCLA next season.

UCLA is one of the leaders in the pursuit of Muhammad.

"We're happy for Ben, happy for the program," Muhammad's father Ron Holmes told The Times in a phone interview. "I think he's going to do a good job and that he'll get the program back on track." 

Muhammad is expected to sign a letter of intent with his chosen school on April 11.

Colorado defeated Arizona by a final score of 53-51 to win the 2012 Pacific-12 Tournament.

The Buffaloes came into the tournament as the sixth seed and won four games to qualify for the NCAA Tournament in their first season in a new conference.

Carlon Brown received MVP honors and was joined on the All-Tournament Team by teammate Andre Roberson, Arizona's Kyle Fogg, Solomon Hill and Jesse Perry, and Oregon State's Jared Cunningham.

Joshua Smith said he will return to UCLA for his junior season.

"I’m coming back," said Smith after the Bruins were knocked out of the Pac-12 tournament with a 66-58 loss to Arizona. "I can’t -- there’s no way I’ll ever leave on a note like that. Whenever I leave I want to make sure we go out with a bang and I go out with a bang, nothing like this."

Smith averaged just 10 points and 4.9 rebounds while being plagued by conditioning issues.

"I’m extremely upset with myself," he said. "I realized in the season with the way I was playing and my numbers compared to what they were when I was a freshman. I was supposed to make that jump and I didn’t.”

Smith said he realizes that he needs to work harder in the offseason to play at the level that made him a high school All-American.

"I've got to put in the work I know I can do," Smith said. "Last summer, after the season, I just basically chilled. I went home kind of chilled and went back to the season kind of the same. For me to be the kind of player I want to be and to be the player my team needs me to be, I need to put in the work in the offseason."

Amile Jefferson will soon announce his collegiate decision. The 6-foot-7, 190 pound forward visited Duke last weekend.

“He enjoyed his Duke trip,” Jefferson’s coach, Jason Polykoff said. “He doesn’t have an official timetable but he’s ready to make a decision very soon.”

Jefferson, one of the top unsigned seniors, is also considering Kentucky, N.C. State, Ohio State and Villanova.