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After recently re-opening his recruitment, Trevon Duval
John Calipari says Kentucky plans to sign “five or six” players in the Class of 2017 and won’t comment on any of them until the class is complete.
“I’m not going to do it until we get everybody and then I’ll go through the five or six,” Calipari said Monday in advance of Tuesday’s game against No. 12 Michigan State in the Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden.
Kentucky on Monday landed 6-foot-6 combo guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of Chattanooga (TN) Hamilton Heights Christian Academy.
Last Thursday, the Wildcats got pledges from a pair of frontcourt players in 6-8 Findlay Prep (NV) forward P.J. Washington and 6-11 Nick Richards of The Patrick School (N.J.).
Matt Coleman, the 6-foot-1, 174-pound point guard from Oak Hill (VA) Academy, plans to commit sometime within the next month and then sign during the spring.
“I think that’s going to be the plan,” he said Friday by phone. “I could see a commitment coming within a month from now, but right now I just don’t have that feeling of where I want to go in my heart.”
Coleman is down to Duke, Texas and Stanford.
His most recent visit was to Texas at the end of October.
“Texas was real nice, I say they laid out the red carpet,” he said. “Just being there with my family and [head coach] Shaka [Smart] spending some time, I really enjoyed myself.”
Coleman visited along with 7-footer Mohamed Bamba of the Westtown (PA) School and the PSA Cardinals. Bamba is considering Texas along with Duke, Kentucky, Harvard and a few others, but also won’t sign until the spring.
Collin Sexton, the 6-foot-2, 182-pound guard from Pebblebrook (GA) High School, committed to Alabama Thursday on ESPNU.
He also considered Kansas, Georgia Tech and North Carolina State.
“Next year I will be going to Alabama,” he said. “I felt like Coach Avery Johnson, he was just a great coach. Everybody down there had very great energy, communication was great and they were on me for a long, long time.”
Sexton joins forward Alex Reese, wing Herb Jones and forward Galin Smith in coach Avery Johnson’s 2017 class. Alabama also landed a commitment from 5-star wing John Petty on Thursday.
