Anthony Barber will make an official recruiting visit to Kansas this weekend
Barber, a 6-foot-2, 165-pound guard, has a final list of Kansas, Alabama, Louisville and North Carolina State.
Anthony Barber will make an official recruiting visit to Kansas this weekend
Barber, a 6-foot-2, 165-pound guard, has a final list of Kansas, Alabama, Louisville and North Carolina State.
Former Kansas guard Milton Doyle has decided to attend Loyola Chicago.
Doyle will sit out this season, per NCAA transfer rules, and then have four years of eligibility remaining.
Wes Clark, a 6-foot point guard from Romulus, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, is headed to Missouri.
“It was because of the coaching staff,” Clark said. “I had a real good connection with them, and I feel like it is a good spot for me.”
Clark picked the Tigers over Connecticut, Michigan State, Pittsburgh and San Diego State.
Kansas’ season may hinge on the point guard trio of senior Elijah Johnson, sophomore Naadir Tharpe and freshman Anrio Adams.
“Right now if I was nervous about a position, it would be our point-guard play, just because it’s not as natural for Elijah, Naadir’s unproven and Anrio’s never done it,” Self said.
Johnson is the incumbent at the position after starting six games last season.
“We’ve got some talented kids back there, but getting the pieces to fit, it’s a lot easier making the pieces fit if you’re playing with two point guards than it is when you’re playing maybe with half a point guard,” Self said. “To put our best team out there right now, you’re looking at a team that’s not a great ballhandling and passing team. There’s going to be some pressure on Elijah to play well this year.”
Cezar Guerrero is transferring to Fresno State and is likely to apply to the NCAA for a hardship waiver to be eligible this upcoming season.
Guerrero decided to transfer from Oklahoma State in order to be closer to his ailing mother in Los Angeles.
Chris Jones, a 5-foot-10, 170-pound guard who played two years at Northwest Florida State, has narrowed his list of possible college destinations to Memphis, Louisville, Kansas, Baylor, Florida State and Oklahoma State.
"Every coach on my list is just gonna let me play my game, they tell me they're gonna put the ball in my hands, and I can win at each program," Jones said. "Each coach is willing to get me to the next level."
Jones will visit each school besides Memphis, as the Memphis native has been on campus multiple times, and then sign in November's early signing period.
"Chris has managed the recruiting process well," Northwest Florida State coach Steve Forbes said. "I'm proud of him. He's made himself accessible and he got to know the coaches as best he could. When he came in my office (Friday), he had a really good idea of where he was at."
Nick King will announce his college decision at 10 a.m. Monday, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.
King is down to Memphis, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Texas.
The 6-foot-6 forward averaged 21 points and almost 10 rebounds as a junior for Memphis East High.
Xavier Rathan-Mayes has narrowed his list of suitors to five schools -- Baylor, Florida State, Connecticut, Illinois and Texas.
Rathan-Mayes, a 6-3 shooting guard, is from Canada and plays at Huntington Prep Academy.
Oklahoma received commitments from in-state talents Jordan Woodard and Jacob Hammond.
Woodard is a three-star point guard out of Edmond, Okla.
Hammond is a 6-foot-9 forward who played for the OKC Storm homeschool team last season.
Milton Doyle is leaving the Kansas basketball program, his mother, Lisa Green, confirmed Sunday night.
“It’s nothing bad about the school or the coaches or anything. Sometimes things happen for a reason,” Green said from her home in Chicago.
Doyle struggled during the Jayhawks’ recent four-game exhibition tour of Europe, averaging 2.3 points a game with five turnovers against no assists.
Doyle originally committed to Florida International, but reopened his recruiting last spring when FIU coach Isiah Thomas was fired.