Derrick Favors is the top target of Georgia and most every other school for the 2009 basketball recruiting class. Even among some of the better players in the nation Favors stood out over the weekend at the Bob Gibbons Tournament of Champions.

Favors controlled the boards, blocked shots, pounded dunks, drove, hit short jumpers and ran the floor like few 225-pound big men in the world.

“He is at a different level,” (Dave) Telep said. “There are other elite players, but he is something special…There was some separation between him and all the other guys.”