We've seen examples of this before, but here is an article chronicling the efforts of Ben Howland and his staff in recruiting worldwide. The story documents how Howland recently has recruited in Australia, and we have incoming Bruins from Canada (Ryan Wright) and Cameroon (Alfred Aboya and Luc Richard Mbaha Moute). Despite this, Howland specifically acknowledges that UCLA's "meal ticket" is the recruitment of the great basketball players here in California. Personally, I have to agree with Howland's strategy: keep local players here, and then take advantage of UCLA's name recognition abroad to get quality international players. And I especially like the idea of avoiding Europe where most kids play professionally and don't bother with American college ball - go to areas like Africa where basketball's popularity is beginning to take off. The recruiting services don't have Aboya and Mbaha Moute ranked all that high, but if these two can be relatively successful at UCLA, it could establish a tradition where future African players, including more talented ones, look to UCLA as their first choice for playing ball in the U.S.