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Sunday / December 22.
  • Recruiting Roundup: Official Visits and Tidbits

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    By JACOB POLACHECK

    Here’s a look towards this weekend’s recruiting visits and other news. This list will be updated throughout the weekend.

    **Arkansas will host five-star prospect Kijani Wright and four-star recruits Ramel Lloyd Jr. and Jordan Walsh for official visits this week. The Razorbacks will also host four-star forward Zuby Ejiofor for an unofficial visit.

    Wright, the 6-foot-9, 220-pound power forward from Windward (CA) School, will trip to Arkansas from Monday to Wednesday (June 21-23). He previously took an unofficial visit to USC (June 5) and an official visit to Texas (June 11-13).

    Lloyd, the 6-foot-6, 190-pound combo guard from Sierra Canyon (CA), will be on campus Tuesday to Thursday (June 22-24). He has previously taken official visits to Oregon (June 5-7), Georgetown (June 14-16) and Nebraska (June 18-20).

    Walsh, the 6-foot-7, 190-pound small forward from Southern California (CA) Academy, trips to Arkansas from Thursday to Saturday (June 24-26). He took his first official visit to TCU (June 10-11) and has visits planned to Oklahoma (Aug. 1) and Georgia (Sept. 11).

    Ejiofor, the 6-foot-8, 215-pound power forward from Garland (TX), will take visits to Oklahoma (June 22), Kansas (June 23) and Arkansas (June 24) this week. He took an unofficial visit to TCU (June 9) and will visit Texas (June 28).

    **Jalen Duren, the 6-foot-10, 230-pound center from Montverde (FL) Academy, trips to Memphis this week (June 23-24) for his second official visit. Duren will then visit Kentucky next week for his third official.

    Duren took his first official visit to Miami (June 15).

    **Jarace Walker, the 6-foot-8, 220-pound power forward from IMG (FL) Academy, takes his third official visit to Houston this week (June 22-24). He has previously taken official visits to Auburn (June 5-7) and Ohio State (June 16-18).

    **Dariq Whitehead, the 6-foot-6, 190-pound small forward from Montverde (FL) Academy, trips to Kansas this weekend (June 27-29) for his third official visit. He has previously taken official visits to Duke (June 11) and Florida State (June 15-17).

    **Brandon Miller, the 6-foot-8, 200-pound small forward from Cane Ridge (TN), will take his third official visit to Kentucky this weekend (June 26-28).

    Miller has taken official visits to Auburn (June 3) and Alabama (June 16).

    **Jalen Washington, the 6-foot-9, 210-pound power forward from West Side (IN), trips to Marquette on Wednesday (June 23) for an unofficial visit.

    Washington took has taken official visits to North Carolina (June 2-4) and Stanford (June 12). He is set to visit Purdue for an unofficial visit on Monday (June 28).

    **A.J. Casey, the 6-foot-8, 180-pound power forward from Whitney Young (IL), takes an unofficial visit to Marquette on Wednesday (June 22).

    Casey took his first official visit to Ohio State earlier this month (June 6-7).

    **M.J. Rice, the 6-foot-5, 225-pound small forward from Prolific (CA) Prep, trips to Kansas on Tuesday (June 22) for his second official visit.

    Rice took his first official visit to Oklahoma State on June 15.

    **Shaedon Sharpe, the 6-foot-4, 175-pound shooting guard from Dream City (AZ) Christian, takes his second official visit to Arizona on Wednesday (June 23).

    Sharpe took his first official visit to Kentucky (June 17-19).

    **Dereck Lively II, the 7-foot-1, 220-pound center from Westtown (PA) School, takes his second official visit to Kentucky this week (June 21-23).

    Lively took his first official visit to UNC (June 8-10) and has an official visit set to Duke on June 29.

    **Aidan Shaw, the 6-foot-8, 190-pound small forward from Blue Valley (KS), trips to Iowa on Tuesday (June 22) for his fourth official visit.

    Shaw has previously taken official visits to Oklahoma State (June 12), Kansas (June 17) and Missouri (June 20). He also has an official visit planned to Maryland (June 28).

    **Donovan Clingan, the 7-foot-1, 255-pound center from Bristol Central (CT), will take his third official visit to Ohio State this week (June 24-25).

    Clingan has taken official visits to Michigan (June 11-13) and Syracuse (June 19-20).

    **Isaac Traudt, the 6-foot-9, 205-pound power forward from Grand Island (NE) Senior School, trips to North Carolina Sunday through Tuesday (June 27-29) for his fourth official visit.

    Traudt has taken official visits to Nebraska (June 4-6), Virginia (June 11-13) and Michigan State (June 17-19). He also took an unofficial visit to Creighton on June 1.

    **Jayden Epps, the 6-foot-2, 195-pound combo guard from King’s Fork (VA), takes his second official visit to UConn this week (June 21-23).

    Epps took his first official visit to NC State from June 11-13 and will visit Kansas from June 28-July 1. He also took an unofficial visit to Illinois on June 17.

    **J.J. Starling, the 6-foot-2, 170-pound point guard from La Lumiere (IN) School, trips to Syracuse this weekend (June 25-27) for his second official visit.

    Starling took his first official visit to Maryland earlier this month (June 4-6). He is also set to visit UConn from June 28-30 and Alabama in early July.

    **De’Ante Green, the 6-foot-9, 215-pound power forward from Asheville Christian (NC) Academy, will visit Tennessee this week (June 23-25) for his third official visit.

    Green has previously taken official visits to NC State (June 4-6) and Wake Forest (June 12-13).

    **Rodney Rice, the 6-foot-4, 185-pound shooting guard from DeMatha (MD) Catholic, trips to Louisville this week (June 22-24) for his third official visit.

    Rice has previously taken visits to Virginia Tech (June 1) and Alabama (June 6).

    **Ty Rodgers, the 6-foot-7, 195-pound small forward from Grand Blanc (MI) Community, takes an unofficial visit to Michigan State this week (June 22-23).

    Rodgers has taken official visits to Michigan (June 1-3), UConn (June 11) and Purdue (June 18-20).

    **Collin Chandler, the 6-foot-4, 170-pound shooting guard from Farmington (UT), visits Utah State this week (June 21-23) for his second official visit.

    Chandler took his first official visit to Stanford (June 14-16).

    **Shawn Phillips, the 6-foot-10, 250-pound center from Ypsi Prep (MI) Academy, will visit NC State for his first official visit this week (June 21-23).

    Phillips took an unofficial visit to Illinois earlier this month (June 3).

    **Tarris Reed, the 6-foot-10, 230-pound power forward from Chaminade (MO), trips to Ohio State this week (June 19-21) for third official visit.

    Reed has previously taken official visits to Michigan State (June 3-5) and Purdue (June 11-13).

    **B.J. Edwards, the 6-foot-3, 170-pound point guard from Knoxville (TN) Catholic, will visit Florida for an official visit on June 23.

    Edwards took his first official visit to Wake Forest from June 14-16. He also took an unofficial visit to Tennessee on June 8.

    **Anthony Black, the 6-foot-7, 185-pound combo guard from Coppell (TX), takes his first official visit to Iowa State this week (June 22-24).

    **Kyle Filipowski, the 6-foot-11, 230-pound power forward from Wilbraham & Monson (MA) Academy, will take an unofficial visit to UConn on Thursday (June 24).

    He has previously taken official visits to Syracuse (June 5-6), Ohio State (June 12-13), Indiana (June 15-16), Iowa (June 17-18) and has an official planned to Duke (June 28-29). Filipowski also took an unofficial visit to Northwestern (June 19).

    **Avery Brown, the 6-foot-3, 180-pound point guard from Northfield Mount Hermon (CT), trips to Nebraska this week (June 21-23) for his first official visit.

    **Noah Batchelor, the 6-foot-6, 185-pound small forward from IMG (FL) Academy, takes an unofficial visit to NC State on Tuesday (June 22).

    Batchelor has previously taken unofficials to Pitt (June 11) and Virginia Tech (June 12).

    **Otega Oweh, the 6-foot-4, 180-pound shooting guard from Blair (NJ) Academy, trips to Miami on Saturday (June 26) for his second official visit.

    Oweh took his first official visit to Penn State (June 1).

    **Alex Karaban, the from IMG (FL) Academy, takes an unofficial visit to UConn on Monday (June 21).

    Karaban took his first official visit to Northwestern (June 10-12). He also has an official visit set to Penn State (June 27-28).

    **Denver Anglin, the 6-foot-2, 165-pound combo guard from Gill St. Bernard’s (NJ), will take his fourth official visit to Georgetown this week (June 21-23).

    Anglin has taken official visits to Providence (June 4-6), Northwestern (June 7) and Stanford (June 11). He also took an unofficial visit to UConn (June 17).

    **Demarion Watson-Saulsberry, the 6-foot-6, 175-pound small forward from Totino-Grace (MN), trips to Iowa State this week (June 24-25) for his first official visit.

    Watson-Saulsberry also took an unofficial visit to Minnesota on June 3.

    **Dillon Mitchell, the 6-foot-7, 180-pound small forward from Bishop McLaughlin (FL) Catholic, takes his second official visit to Ohio State this week (June 20-22).

    Mitchell took his first official visit to Auburn (June 8-10) and will visit Tennessee on June 27.

    **Kimani Hamilton, the 6-foot-7, 200-pound small forward from Clinton (MS), trips to Alabama this week (June 20-22) for his first official visit.

    **Dominick Barlow, the 6-foot-9, 205-pound power forward from Dumont (NJ), will take his first official visit to Pitt on Tuesday (June 22).

    Barlow took an unofficial visit to Rutgers on June 1.

    **Chandler Jackson, the 6-foot-4, 205-pound combo guard from Christian Brothers (TN), takes his first official visit to Auburn this week (June 22-24).

    **Kendall Blue, the 6-foot-4, 175-pound shooting guard from East Ridge (MN), trips to Santa Clara on Friday (June 25).

    Blue took his first official visit to Marquette on June 20 and will visit St. Thomas on June 28.

    **Justyn Fernandez, the 6-foot-5, 200-pound small forward from Virginia (VA) Episcopal School, will take his first official visit to George Mason this week (June 21-23).

    **Christian Winborne, the 6-foot-3, 175-pound point guard from Gilman (MD), trips to Northwestern this week (June 21-23) for his second official visit.

    Winborne took his first official visit to U Penn (June 4-6). He has also taken unofficial visits to Harvard (June 13) and Rutgers (June 17).

    **Kwame Evans Jr., the 6-foot-8, 190-pound junior small forward from Baltimore (MD) Polytechnic Institute, takes an unofficial visit to Maryland on Monday (June 21).

    **Jahnathan Lamothe, the 6-foot-4, 180-pound junior combo guard from St. Frances (MD) Academy, trips to VCU on Friday (June 25) for an unofficial visit.

    Lamothe has taken unofficial visits to Pitt (June 11) and Rutgers (June 18). He also has an unofficial visit planned to Ohio State on June 29.

    **Brandon Gardner, the 6-foot-7, 185-pound power forward from Gray (SC) Academy, visits Georgetown on Monday (June 21) for an unofficial visit.

    **Kaleb Glenn, the 6-foot-6, 200-pound junior small forward from Louisville (KY) Mane, will visit Xavier on Thursday (June 24) for an unofficial visit.

    Glenn has also taken unofficial visits to Louisville (June 5) and West Virginia (June 12).

    **Quadir Copeland, the 6-foot-6, 175-pound combo guard from Life Center (PA) Academy, takes his first official visit to Syracuse on Tuesday (June 22).

    **Braeden Moore, the 6-foot-8, 210-pound power forward from CPA (TN), takes his first official visit to Nebraska this weekend (June 25-27).

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