The evening of Feb. 1 proved to be a sleepless night for Cavaliers coach Mike London. Twenty-four hours later, London had put the wraps on his third recruiting class as coach at Virginia.

"I watched some of the (U.Va.) basketball game last night, left, picked up my son, hung out at Five Guys, stayed up watching Jay Leno do his opening monologue," London recalled at his national signing day meeting with the media. "You always worry about things that you can't control. We had our official visit weekend—not last weekend, but the week before—and it was a lovefest then, so you felt pretty good."

While it's true the 2012 class lacked the top-flight recruits present in last year's outstanding haul, there was one important number with regard to the latest batch of ...More