Bob Huggins, who came to West Virginia last year with the reputation as a stellar recruiter, has put together his first full class, and it is tied for 14th among the 321 Division I schools that play men's basketball in Hoopscoop's most updated ratings.

Clark Francis, publisher of Hoopscoop, awards points for individual players on a scale of 1 to 10 and bases the school's rating on its total points.

"Basically, I go out and watch players like I've been doing for 25 years," said Francis, who lives in Louisville, Ky. "The best recruiting classes include quantity and quality of players."

The two marquee players in West Virginia's class of four recruits are 6-foot-8 Devin Ebanks (9 points) and 6-7 Kevin Jones (8). The other two players are worth three points each to give the Mountaineers 23 points and a tie with fellow Big East member Louisville.

In Francis' system, the top five players in the country are worth 10 points, nine points for the next five in his rankings, eight for players 11-40, six for 41-70, four for 71-100, three from 101-300 and two for 301-1,000.

Players from junior college and prep schools are awarded points as if they were high school seniors.

Pitt's class is rated 24th, Duquesne 28th, Robert Morris tied for 91st and Penn State tied for 189th.

Pitt, rated fifth in the Big East behind Connecticut, which is ranked sixth nationally, West Virginia, Louisville and No. 22 Rutgers, has five recruits, topped by 6-3 Jermain Dixon and 6-5 Nasir Robinson, both six stars.

"I've been around this long enough to know that recruiting isn't an exact science," Duquesne coach Ron Everhart said. "You can't predict what a player's going to do in three or four years because you don't know how hard that player will work and how much he'll improve. But this class has me more excited than any I've been associated with in all my years."

Duquesne, the highest-rated school in the Atlantic 10 with a total of 22 points, has seven recruits led by 6-4 Melquan Bolding, a four-star player who originally signed at Louisville. Duquesne's other players all are worth three points.

Rob Robinson, a 6-7 forward worth four points, is the highest rated of Robert Morris' five recruits.

Penn State's three recruits total seven points.

The nation's top-rated class is Kansas, whose seven recruits are worth 46 points. At the bottom of the list with one recruit worth one point are Elon, North Carolina A&T, Bethune-Cookman and South Dakota State.