The next LeBron: on the Main Line?

Even for Pat Knapp, who has a few recruiting success stories to his name, this one was probably a bit out of reach.

But rising senior Elena DelleDonne, considered the No. 1 basketball prospect in the nation, could still end up playing in the Big 5 next year.

I read with delight this morning that DelleDonne has Villanova in her personal Final Four, along with UConn, Tennessee, and Middle Tennessee State. The 6-foot-4 scorer, who plays for Ursuline Academy, the sister school to the all-boys middle school I attended in Delaware, also made it clear she's soured on power-conference recruiting.

That's good news for those, like me, who desperately want the girl who Sportscenter called "the next LeBron James" of the women's game to stay local for her college career.

As if you needed one more reason to head out to Villanova for a night of women's hoops.

Given her self-imposed hiatus from the game, we won't know if the Wildcats are still in the hunt for at least 60 days. But I'll be tuned in from that point forward, and hopefully for the Wildcats and the women's Big 5, the more feminine version of King James decides to bring her show to Philadelphia.