Can Harvard compete with heavyweights Duke and Kentucky for Wendell Carter, the No. 1 power forward in the Class of 2017?
“Absolutely, it’s one of the top academic programs in the country,” Carter’s mother, Kylie Carter, told SNY.tv. “Top academics must be considered.”
Crimson head coach Tommy Amaker will get a shot when he meets with the 6-foot-10 Carter at Atlanta (GA) Pace Academy on Nov. 4.
Carter told me over the summer that Harvard was the one offer he really wanted that he lacked at that point.
“Harvard is probably the only school,” he said in June.
Would he ever pick Harvard over a Duke or a Kentucky?
“It depends on which school I like the best,” he said then. “Whichever school just brings me in as family basically.”
Carter said at the Peach Jam that Duke was recruiting him the hardest. He recently visited Duke for their Countdown to Craziness and both he and his close friend Gary Trent Jr. have repeatedly talked about a potential package to that school.
“Yes,” Carter said at the Peach Jam. “It would be pretty good but we’re looking around. We’re looking around.”
