Recruiting Roundup: Weekend Visits and Tidbits
By JACOB POLACHECK **James Wiseman, the 6-foot-11 center
By JACOB POLACHECK **James Wiseman, the 6-foot-11 center
By ADAM ZAGORIA
After taking an unofficial visit to Villanova last week, Class of 2019 shooting guard Bryan Antoine committed to the Wildcats on Tuesday morning.
The 6-foot-5 Antoine from the Ranney School (N.J.) and Team Rio is the No. 12 player in the Class of 2019, per ESPN.com. He chose Villanova over Florida, Kentucky and Duke.
“Villanova is only like an hour and 45 [minutes] from my house so it’s kind of like the home school,” Antoine told me earlier this year. “In the past three years they’ve won two national championships, there’s no other place you can do that at home. You can go in there and win a national championship.”
By JACOB POLACHECK KJ Adams, the 6-foot-6 small
By ADAM ZAGORIA
As Kentucky’s courtship of Aidan Igiehon heats up, assistant Tony Barbee and head coach John Calipari are expected to come watch the 6-foot-10 center from Lawrence Woodmere (NY) Academy and Team Rio on Monday.
“Barbee said, ‘We’re going to be there,’ I think they’re both going to come,” Lawrence Woodmere coach Jeff Weiss said Friday by phone.
Kentucky has stepped up its courtship of Igiehon recently and the big man recently cut his list to four schools: Kentucky, Louisville, Oregon and St. John’s. He has home visits coming up with St. John’s (Sunday), Louisville (Sunday) and Kentucky (Monday). Weiss, who has already coached Igiehon for four years, said he believes an official offer from Kentucky will be forthcoming soon.
Igiehon has set official visits to Oregon (Sept. 13), Louisville (Sept. 28) and St. John’s (Oct. 5), but not to Kentucky yet.
By ADAM ZAGORIA R.J. Hampton, the 6-foot-4 combo guard
