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Tuesday, June 29, 2004

As rumored, Brittany Hunter is heading to UConn.

This seems to mark the end of one of the most bizarre recruiting wars in the history of women's college basketball.

Brittany herself apparently was leaning toward UConn out of high school. "I think deep down inside, she wanted to be there the first time," her high school coach said yesterday. But she ended up at Duke, in part because she and her family wanted a better academic program to go along with basketball.

When Brittany chose the Devils, Geno was upset. In response to the notion that Duke's academic reputation made it a better choice, he made his infamous restaurants quip. The remark prompted some typically energetic and hilarious responses from the Crazies.

After Hunter's dicision, Geno was also reportedly pretty rude to her family, including her stepfather Michael Jones. Michael Jones, under the name "Newbie," is a frequent poster at various women's hoops message boards, and he is currently one of the moderators of the Duke board. (Some have made dark suggestions that Jones's position as moderator might be evidence of some recruiting impropriety, but the message board, and thus his position, didn't even exist at the time of her decision.) News that Brittany was leaving Durham was first made public by Newbie on the boards.

Jones still doesn't like Geno. But as he says, the choice is hers, and she's decided to pull up stakes in Durham and head north.