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Boys’ basketball: Caudill commits to Arizona State

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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In another recruiting coup involving Arizona State and top Southland basketball players, the Sun Devils have received a commitment from Brea Olinda sophomore big man Kyle Caudill.

Coach Herb Sendek and his predecessor, Rob Evans, have done an excellent job of mining top talent from Southern California in recent years. Arizona State got Etiwanda’s Jeff Pendergraph and Artesia’s James Harden and Derek Glasser.

In the 6-foot-11 Caudill, the Sun Devils are getting a player who averaged 16.3 points and 12.0 rebounds while shooting 55% as a sophomore. He’s got tremendous upside and will most likely be a 7-footer by the time he reaches college.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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