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In recent weeks, the Rise & Fall series has chronicled the progress (or regress) of college basketball's major conference teams. But if I equated each team to a civilization, I was mistaken. It is really the NCAA conference that equates to a burgeoning civilization or nation, each with its sometimes stable and sometimes rotating member states. Like civilizations, the prestige and power of conferences wax and wane..

LOGAN, Utah - Former Utah State All-American Jaycee Carroll has signed a one-year contract to play professional basketball in Italy for Siviglia Wear Teramo. He will report to the team August 25 for a physical.

Carroll did have offers from both Toronto and Phoenix of the NBA to participate in their fall camps, but neither offer came with any guarantees.

LOGAN, Utah -- Former Utah State All-American Jaycee Carroll has agreed to be a member of the New Jersey Nets Summer League roster and will pla in eight games during a three-week period in July.

Carroll is one of 16 players listed on the Nets' Summer League roster, which includes 10 rookies, three players with one year of NBA experienc and three players with two years of NBA experience.