A couple quick notes here that I will follow up on later in the week:

Angelei Aguirre will transfer to UCSB. The 2008 Journal News player of the year has, indeed, left Cal. She has transferred to Cal-Santa Barbara, where she will play for former Cal assistant Lindsay Gottlieb. Of course, Gottlieb played at Scarsdale, but she also recruited Aguirre to Cal, so there’s a comfort level there. Gottlieb led UCSB to a Big West championship and into the big dance. (Aguirre also used to tell me she preferred good weather. I can tell you firsthand: it doesn’t get better than the weather in Santa Barbara.)

After playing very little as a freshman at Cal, Aguirre will have to sit out the coming season. She will be eligible to play again in 2010-11. (Contrary to popular belief, Aguirre was on scholarship.)

Kim Adams has returned to Penn. Not that she ever left the school, but the 2007 player of the year left the team at Penn last December. She has returned to the program after new coach, Mike McLaughlin, reached out to her. Adams has already begun working with the Quakers this offseason.

I just returned from a weeklong vacation and will have a lot more news to post this week. For now, I wanted to pass along something about former Putnam Valley star Kristi Dini.

As you may have read in our paper back in March, Dini broke school and conference records for 3-pointers made during a successful four-year career at Boston University. After her senior year, she signed a contract to play pro ball in Italy. You can read more about it on BU’s website. She signed a one-year deal with Umana Reyer Venezia.

Dini helped herself with a big senior season that included an NCAA-leading 3.3 3’s made per game. She also finished 41st in the nation in 3-point percentage at a shade below 40 percent. You can see that list here.

Another member of the junior class has given an early commitment. This time it’s Mount Vernon guard Taylor Palmer, who, after a weekend visit to Morgantown, gave her verbal to play for West Virginia.

Palmer, who led Mount Vernon in scoring at 16.2 PPG and helped the Knights win their first Section 1 title in 26 years, said she had five other finalists — BC, Seton Hall, Iona, Providence and Princeton — but she was so floored by WVU that she passed on the other choices.

“I was just going to wait until the end of the summer to make a decision, but I went to West Virginia and it was the perfect fit,” Palmer said.

The Mountaineers first scouted Palmer during the high school season at the Kennedy showcase in the Bronx. They followed her at an AAU tournament in Virginia in April, when she played for the New York Gauchos. Palmer was impressed when the coaching staff told her that she was their No. 1 target. The scholarship offer backed that up, and Palmer accepted.

“I was going to wait, but they told me I was their No. 1 pick,” she said. “And besides basketball, the coach is very interested into his athletes getting a degree. I want to do something more than basketball when I’m done with college. I want to work toward a career in something else. So that was really important to me.”

The coaching staff asked WVU freshman Kevin Jones about Palmer a couple months back. He also met Palmer during her visit. Those two and other members of the men’s and women’s basketball teams toured the campus and town, and Palmer developed a comfort level there.

“They support all the teams there, the football team, the boys basketball team, the girls basketball,” she said. “That made me like it even more. It’s a full college environment.”

I have a big signing to report tomorrow, but I’ll hold off for now.

Here are a few other players who expect to play ball in college:

— Ariel Guzman (above) of Victory will attend Daniel Webster College in New Hampshire. She had a couple other opportunities at Division III schools, UMass-Dartmouth and Utica.

— Imani Floyd, who played center for Class AA finalist Ossining, will attend Purchase.

— Jen McSharar (right), a forward at North Rockland, will attend Manhattanville College.

Any others, please let me know.