Diamond Stone, the 6-foot-10 big man from Milwaukee Dominican, will announce his college choice Nov. 12, the first day of the NCAA early signing period, he told Evan Daniels of Scout.com.
Stone is considering Wisconsin, Kentucky, UConn, Kansas, Duke and UCLA, among others.
He and point guard Malik Newman have talked about a package deal, with UConn and Kansas thought to be the most likely landing spots for the combo package.
But the 6-4 Newman told SNY.tv Monday night that he doesn’t have a date set for his announcement, and will likely announce on a different date from Stone.
“My boy committing before me…wish him the best of luck… @Diamond_Stone33 don’t mean that’s the school I’m going to tho…,” he Tweeted.
Newman has insisted all along that he and the 6-foot-10 Stone will be a package deal in college, telling Steve Jones of the Louisville Courier-Journal, “I think that team [that gets us] is going to win the NCAA championship.”
Newman told SNY.tv at the LeBron James Skills Academy that UConn, Kansas, Kentucky, N.C. State and Miami are schools that have been recruiting the duo as a package deal.
“[Stone]’s a great player, he’s a great person,” Newman said then. “I’d love to play with him in college because he’s a dominant post player. That’s something I’ve always wanted to play with because I figure that if he can get the post going, that can help me out because that can really spread the floor.”
Stone, who recently visited UConn on a trip Newman did not make, has been less committal on the package deal, telling Jones there’s a “50 percent chance” he and Newman will go to the same school.
Newman also said he plans to cut his list to about five schools after the USA Basketball U17 training that begins July 24 in Colorado Springs, CO.
