Virginia basketball coach Pete Gillen announced the signing of three players to national letters of intent yesterday.
Gillen signed 6-foot-5 guard/forward Mamadi Diane of Potomac, Md., 6-foot-8 forward Laurynas Mikalauskas of Lithunia and 6-foot-10 center Sam Warren of Greenwood Village, Colo. Missing from the signings was 6-foot-4 shooting guard Brian Moten, who committed to Virginia in late September, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Moten didn't return a letter of intent last week, as Virginia officials balked at admitting him after he struggled in his first semester. Moten is repeating his senior year at a boarding school in Cincinnati after failing to meet NCAA eligibility requirements during the 2003-04 academic year.
As a junior for Dematha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Md., Diane averaged 15.7 points, 9.1 rebounds and 2.9 steals a game and earned second-team All-Washington Catholic Athletic Conference honors. He enters this season as a first-team preseason All-State selection.
Mikalauskas played at Blue Ridge School, a prep school in Dyke, Va., last season where he averaged 18.3 points and 11.4 rebounds a game. The center earned first-team Virginia Independent Schools Division I All-State honors and first-team All-Virginia Prep League honors as a junior last season.
Warren, from Cherry Creek High School in Englewood, Colo., participated in the 2004 Junior Olympic Festival and was a top big man at the Adidas camp in Sewanee, Ga., last summer.
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