Post by Sandman on May 14, 2013 11:31:49 GMT -5
John Calipari spent more than two years trying to bring Andrew Wiggins to Lexington.
On Tuesday, Wiggins decided to go his own way.
The No. 1 high school basketball prospect in the country announced that he will play next season at Kansas, picking the Jayhawks over UK, Florida State and North Carolina.
It was a somewhat surprising end to a recruitment that looked like a two-horse race for most of the past two years.
Florida State was the legacy school where Wiggins’ parents had both excelled as athletes in the 1980s. Kentucky was the other program that had been on him the longest, with Wiggins immediately establishing a strong connection with Calipari and his staff.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/2013/05/14/2639766/no-1-prospect-wiggins-commits.html#storylink=cpy
On Tuesday, Wiggins decided to go his own way.
The No. 1 high school basketball prospect in the country announced that he will play next season at Kansas, picking the Jayhawks over UK, Florida State and North Carolina.
It was a somewhat surprising end to a recruitment that looked like a two-horse race for most of the past two years.
Florida State was the legacy school where Wiggins’ parents had both excelled as athletes in the 1980s. Kentucky was the other program that had been on him the longest, with Wiggins immediately establishing a strong connection with Calipari and his staff.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/2013/05/14/2639766/no-1-prospect-wiggins-commits.html#storylink=cpy