Ivo Baltic was honestly a little surprised when our conversation began Monday about him deciding to play basketball at the University of Ohio.

"How did you know that already," he asked."I just decided this morning."

In the world of rivals.com and scout.com and tons of recruiting services, the recruiting world has become one of the most instantaneous things around.

Truth be told, Baltic, who played at Park Hill South, hadn't even talked to the Ohio coaches on Monday.

During our phone call he was just finishing up a workout and hadn't had the time to make the call, but his high school coach Anthony Perry had already passed along the good news to the Bobcat coaching staff.

It seems it would be easy in this type of up to the second world to have a repeat of this, where an athlete basically makes up the whole recruiting process.

With the 6-8 Baltic that wasn't the case. His 23 points and 15 rebounds per game legitamized him.