For numerous reasons, there seems to be a quiet confidence inside the Coliseum that WVU has a good shot at Devin Ebanks. A bunch of conversations and e-mail with people involved with different schools in the hunt lead me — and others — to believe it’s down to the Mountaineers and a Big East rival. The catch is that it’t not UConn or Syracuse, Pitt or Villanova.

Try Rutgers.

Well, Ebanks, who plays at Connecticut’s St. Thomas More, but is from Long Island, N.Y., visited Rutgers this past weekend and it looks like things went pretty well.

Former Indiana University signee Devin Ebanks, who was released from his letter-of-intent, is serious about Rutgers. One source has told me that he expects Ebanks to even perhaps end up with the Scarlet Knights. But he still has to visit Memphis.

Ebanks, who visited WVU on the second weekend of April and then Texas two weeks later, is off to Memphis this weekend for his last official visit. He probably won’t wait very long to sign his letter-of-intent.