1.   But even Garnett cautions other prep stars who are considering taking the route he did.

2.   But the onetime California prep star with a troubled past was twice denied admission.

3.   But Walsh also attracted prep stars Mike Mitchell, Brian Manning, Tommy Hansen, Greg Camella, Charles Young, Bryan Werner, Adam Salina and Brad Badger.

4.   Chandler said recently that he would discourage prep stars from skipping college.

5.   Cotton, the highest profile prep star ever to enter LBCC, did not talk in detail about his past.

6.   Even while still a prep star at Isidore Newman High School in New Orleans, his accomplishments fell somewhere between legendary and mythical.

7.   He has received an oral commitment from southern California prep star Rico Harris, who also was heavily recruited by national champion UCLA.

8.   He is Kevin Garnett, the Chicago prep star who Wednesday becomes an NBA lottery pick.

9.   He was a prep star in Riverside, but it took him awhile to sneak out from under the shadow of his sister, Cheryl.

10.   Not with some of the other folks who watched him blossom as a Chicago prep star in the stands.