Following his appearance in the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament on April 4-7 in Virginia, Warren Carter couldn’t say how he played. Throughout the three-game pre-draft showcase, he said he just displayed the same season-long hustle that resulted in averages of 13.7 points per game and 6.1 rebounds per game in his senior campaign.

“There was really no flow to the game,” Carter said. “I don’t know if it went well, if it went great, if it went bad; I just know I did everything and tried to play hard.”

The Portsmouth Invite, the nation’s oldest basketball tournament and composed of 64 players on eight teams, is the only tourney for college seniors to participate in and be evaluated by the NBA prior to its pre-draft camp in Orlando.

It may not have been Carter’s best effort scoring-wise, but the scouts took notice. Carter received paperwork for the NBA’s pre-draft camp to be held June 6-10 in Orlando at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex.

“I got the invitation from them and I have to let them know if I want to come or not, so I’m doing that, which obviously I want to come,” Carter said on Tuesday night at the team’s award banquet.

“It hasn’t been finalized, I don’t think the list has been finalized, but I got an invite.”

Carter has signed with an agent from McClaren Sports, the same agency that represents former Illini Deron Williams. Head coach Bruce Weber will begin the process of making phone calls and getting feedback on Carter’s status, he said.

After ending the season and then getting ready for the camp in Virginia, Carter said he is looking forward to getting his Spring Break.

“Now I am going to relax for the next couple of days,” Carter said. “I need to get my body back so I can start training and get ready for it – I’ve got two months.”

A trip to Orlando in June would afford Carter time to hang out with former roommate and best friend James Augustine, now with the Orlando Magic.

“I just got off the phone with James right before I came over here, that’s my guy, so I will definitely go down and see him a little bit,” Carter said following the banquet. “I’ll probably just stay with him if I can. It will be good to go there, especially somebody that I’m really close to.”

Randle travels to Philidelphia

After missing more than 60 practices and 11 games with a groin injury and plantar fasciitis, junior forward Brian Randle is looking forward to a summer without any pain.

Randle and team trainer Al Martindale traveled to Philidelphia on Thursday to see the same physician who performed his Nov. 17 groin surgery.

“He’s had a little pain since the end of the season, but we’re just hoping that there’s nothing else there, but we just felt (it would be good to go) for his own mental state,” Weber said.

Although Weber admits Randle has great athleticism, he doesn’t think that basketball-wise his development has come naturally. If Randle is able to stay healthy throughout the summer, Weber said it would be a positive step.

“He needs reps and he’s been hurt so much over the last four years that he probably hasn’t gotten half the reps that other guys have gotten,” Weber said.

Frazier’s return

The funeral for sophomore guard Chester Frazier’s father, Chester Frazier, Sr., was held Thursday in Baltimore. He is expected to return to campus following the funeral proceedings, but Weber said the quick way in which Frazier, Sr. died of lung cancer has led to the sophomore taking “it very hard.”

“He’s got worries of an adult, he’s got a little brother, he’s in a world of pain, a world of hurt and he’s just 20-years-old,” Weber said. “We text back and forth, he doesn’t even want to talk to be honest.”