Yes, I too thought I wouldn’t be posting anything about Levon Kendall for a couple months. But here it is barely a week later. Courtesy of the rapidly indispensable Big East Basketball Report, Levon Kendall has been added to the Canadian National Team as games begin today in FIBA’s Tournament of Americas for qualification to the 2006 World Championships. Also on the team is the seemingly eternal UConn Huskie Denham Brown. Seriously, how long has he been with that team. It seems like he has been there since Ray Allen left.

This is actually fairly significant for Kendall. The competition is better and older and he is still being counted on to produce.

Among the most significant additions are Carl English of Patrick’s Cove, Nfld., and Levon Kendall of Vancouver, a pair of young forwards who’ll be asked to handle a majority of the team’s scoring in the 10-country tournament which starts tomorrow and ends Sept. 5.

English, who played last year with Florida of the NBDL, joined the team for practices last weekend, while Kendall was the best player on the national under-21 team that won a bronze medal at the world championships earlier this month.

If he does well here, then you have to like his chances to earn and keep a starting position for Pitt.