BEVERLY HILLS (MI) — Just because one chooses not to personally participate in the Twitter phenomenon doesn’t mean that you can’t partake of it. Let’s face it, Twitter is basically just a blog with a 140 character limit that can be pushed out to “followers” or read by anyone like you or me, if you know where to find the tweets. And that is what this edition of “From the Swamp” will try to do — help you locate the Twitter account of someone in the world of college hoops in whom you might have some interest. Here we go:

Coaches

It’s intriguing to see how coaches use Twitter. Some just have the Athletic Department use it as a PR tool; some actually post their own tweets and most (like BG) are somewhere in between. Rather than posting a bunch of individual links, College Chalk Talk has conveniently created a page with most of the coaches of major programs included, all in one place:

http://collegechalktalk.com/information/twitter

BG: http://twitter.com/UDCoachBG

Assistant Coach Jon Borovich: http://twitter.com/JonBorovich (relatively inactive)

(Assistant Coach Cornell Mann and Director of Basketball Operations Matt Farrell both have a Twitter account but their tweets are protected)

Players

Chris Wright: http://twitter.com/FLYGHT33

Juwan Staten: http://twitter.com/Born_ready03

Ralph Hill: http://twitter.com/Ralphflyer50

Josh Parker: http://twitter.com/joshparker12

Devin Searcy: http://twitter.com/DevinSearcy

Josh Benson: http://twitter.com/Jkwan44

Brandon Spearman: http://twitter.com/Bspearflyers32

Logan Nourse: http://twitter.com/Logan25Nourse

Kevin Dillard: http://twitter.com/hatetolovekd

Players who have protected their tweets:

Devin Oliver: http://twitter.com/DevinOliver5

Chris Johnson: http://twitter.com/johnsonflyer4

Paul Williams: http://twitter.com/pmacflyer22

Class of 2010 Players

Marcus Johnson: http://twitter.com/Marcus32Johnson

London Warren: http://twitter.com/Ickeybaeflyer1

Players who have protected their tweets:

Mickey Perry: http://twitter.com/Mick_Fly00

Rob Lowery: http://twitter.com/Rob_lowery3

Former Players

Charles Little: http://twitter.com/One5Forever

Norm Plummer: http://twitter.com/NPjp21 (tweets are protected)

Stephen Thomas: http://twitter.com/DeucesWild317 (tweets are protected)

Columnists

Andy Katz of ESPN.com: http://twitter.com/ESPNAndyKatz

Garry Parrish at CBS Sportsline: http://twitter.com/GaryParrishCBS

Dickie V: http://twitter.com/dickiev

Dana O’Neill of ESPN.com: http://twitter.com/dgoneil1

Jimmy ****s of ESPN.com: http://twitter.com/JimmyD_ESPN

Mike DeCourcy of The Sporting News: http://twitter.com/tsnmike

Eamon Brennan of ESPN.com: http://twitter.com/eamonnbrennan

Chris DiSano of College Chalk Talk: http://twitter.com/chris_chalktalk

Seth Davis of CBS Sportsline: http://twitter.com/SethDavisHoops

BG’s buddy, Fran Fraschilla of ESPN.com: http://twitter.com/franfraschilla

Kyle Whelliston of MidMajority.com: http://twitter.com/whelliston

Bill Simmons ESPN.com’s “The Sports Guy”: http://twitter.com/sportsguy33

Recruiting

A lot of good info gets tweeted before it eventually makes it into a blog, post or column. Altho reading that 6’9” Jalen Reynolds from Livonia Stevenson (MI) HS was seen wearing a Xavier shirt in a summer league game (as tweeted by InsidePrepSports.com) is the kind of scoop I can do without.

Dave Telep of Scout.com: http://twitter.com/DaveTelep

Jeff Goodman at FoxSports.com: http://twitter.com/goodmanonfox

Jody Demling of the Louisville Courier Journal: http://twitter.com/jdemling

Adam Zagoria from Zagsblog: http://twitter.com/AdamZagoria

Jeff Rabjohns and Kyle Neddenreip at the Indy Star:

http://twitter.com/star_recruits

Rush the Court: http://twitter.com/rushthecourt

InsidePrepSports.com (mostly Michigan): http://twitter.com/scoopIPS

Mike Duncan from National Preps: http://twitter.com/onpss

InsideHoops.com: http://twitter.com/InsideHoops

Hope you find these links useful.

That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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