By MATT WHITFIELD & ADAM ZAGORIA
Kentucky’s latest scholarship offer was extended recently to Zach Brown, a 7-foot-1 2017 center from Miami Beach, Fla., according to multiple reports.
“My dad actually just told me,” Brown, ranked the No. 2 center in the Class of 2017 by 247Sports.com, told Chris Fisher. “I was very excited because basketball has taken me a long way and that was a dream college for me when I was younger.”
Brown also holds offers from UConn, Miami, Kansas, Florida, NC State, Ohio State, UCLA, South Carolina, and Virginia, but told Fisher North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Miami and UCLA are recruiting him the hardest.
Brown told Fisher he’s been impressed by Kentucky’s recent lineage of big men, including Karl-Anthony Towns, Willie Cauley-Stein, Anthony Davis, Nerlens Noel and DeMarcus Cousins.
“I just like the way they [use] their bigs and [run] their system around their bigs,” Brown said.
Kentucky has extended offers to several other 2017 big men, including Mohamed Bamba of Harlem; Nick Richards of St. Patrick; DeAndre Ayton of California; Wendell Carter of Atlanta; and wing John Petty of Alabama. (Click on their names for the most recent features on them.)
“Everybody says Kentucky only offers pros,” Richards told Ben Roberts of Kentucky.com. “So they must think I’m a pro or something.”
