A year ago, four SLU players, Dustin Maguire, Adam Knollmeyer, Marcus Relphorde and Anthony Mitchell left the program because they didn’t fit into Rick Majerus’ plans. They all seem to have finally found a home:

Relphorde just signed a letter of intent with Colorado after spending a year at a JC in Iowa. He averaged 12 points and five rebounds a game last season. He also looked at TCU and Arkansas.

Mitchell signed with SIUE after playing at Highland Community College.

Maguire led DII Northern Kentucky in scoring with 15.0 points per game as the Norse went 24-7 and reached the Division II tournament as a No. 3 seed, losing in the first round to Lake Superior State in double overtime. He shot 39.8 percent pn 3’s and 93.6 percent from the line, the best in all three NCAA divisions.

Knollmeyer went to Missouri Science and Technology (nee Rolla) and averaged 10.2 points and 5.7 rebounds for a team that went 9-17. He started all but two games. And I see that MST’s coach is stepping down, meaning that Knollmeyer is about to get his fourth coach in four years of college basketball.

And Ruben Cotto will likely wind up at A-10 rival La Salle in the 2010-11 season. As a 4-2-4, a player who went from a 4-year school to a JC and then going back to a 4-year, I don’t think he’s eligible to sign a letter of intent yet — I could be wrong on this — but I’ve seen reports that he has verbally committed.