It's a great day if you're a basketball fan at State College Area H.S. -- and a not-so-great one if you're a fan from Albany.
The Albany Times Union is reporting what has been suspected all along: Denise Murphy and her kids will be moving to State College.
Murphy, of course, is the mother of Nittany Lion captain Talor Battle and soon-to-be Penn State guard Taran Buie. She is a Pennsylvania native, and the move always seemed like a matter of when, not if. The "when" will reportedly be July.
Buie verbally committed to Penn State after it topped Baylor to win the NIT on April 2. The combo-guard was second-team Class AA all-state in New York this past season as a junior and is considered by many to be the Nits' biggest recruit ever.
What does this move mean? Well, the cynics who felt Buie was simply caught up in the euphoria of the moment after the Lions' win can all but lay to rest their doubts that Buie was not fully committed to Penn State. It's difficult to imagine a kid de-committing from a school in the town he resides in, especially when his half-brother is the school's best basketball player and his mother just settled there.
As for Bishop Maginn, his old high school? They'll now have to find someone to replace both Buie and Rich Hurley, as the Golden Griffins' head coach -- who coached both brothers at Maginn -- stepped down on Tuesday.
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