Sports digest<\/a>:<\/p>\n“Jason Love needed only a couple of dinners to decide that Xavier University, one of the frontrunners for the 6-foot-8 power forward, was the place he wanted to play college basketball.<\/p>\n
“Love, a senior from Abington Friends (Pa.) School, orally committed to Xavier University Sunday after his weekend visit to the school.<\/p>\n
” ‘I felt it was the right time to make a decision,’ said Love, who also considered Penn State, Providence, Virginia and La Salle. ‘Going to dinner with the players, though, that pretty much sealed the deal.’<\/p>\n
“Love went to dinner with Xavier freshman Derrick Brown on Friday night. Then on Saturday, he went out to dinner with Drew Lavender, a transfer from Oklahoma who is ineligible to play this season because of NCAA transfer rules.<\/p>\n
“Love said he had not planned on committing to Xavier before he made the trip to Cincinnati. Once at XU, he began to change his mind. …”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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