Garrett Tucker:
Future150 Southeast Analyst. Covering high school basketball across the Southeast.
Nashville, TN (Future150) -- With the high school season now over and AAU season quickly upon us, several top unsigned seniors will make their college decisions within the next few weeks. Keith Frazier, Aaron Gordon, and Rysheed Jordan are expected to announce their verbal commitments soon.
This stretch of commitments was supposed to be started by 2013 Dallas (Tex.) Kimabll sharpshooter Keith Frazier, who had intentions to announce on Thursday, March 28th.
However, it looks like the star guard is still torn between SMU, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech. He now is looking to make a decision after the McDonald's All-American Game, according to his mentor.
John Calipari was in Richmond, Kentucky a few days ago and visited senior point guard Dominique Hawkins.
Hawkins, who made quite an impression on the Kentucky staff and the rest of the state during the KHSAA's Sweet Sixteen, has made it known that he has been waiting on UK. Now it looks like he may be headed to Lexington, and it could happen as early as Friday.
Kendal Yancy-Harris has no set date for a decision, but he is looking to have his recruitment wrapped up following his visit to Texas this weekend. Yancy-Harris’ camp is confident that a decision will be made by the end of the month.
With that being said and the Longhorns receiving the last visit, Texas has to be the favorite to land the in-state point guard, who is ranked No. 57 overall. Baylor and Missouri are also involved.
The grand finale for scheduled decisions comes down to the No. 3 player in the country, Aaron Gordon. The San Jose Archbishop Mitty (Cal.) forward will announce his decision at the McDonald’s All-American game on April 3rd.
Arizona, Kentucky, Oregon, and Washington are all vying for the high-flyer’s services, but Future150 is confident (as we have been for quite awhile) that Sean Miller and the Arizona Wildcats will prevail for Gordon.
Following Gordon’s commitment will be guard Rysheed Jordan and wing Andrew Wiggins, both whom have no set timetable for a decision.
With UCLA’s firing of Ben Howland, it looks like Temple and St. John’s will battle it out till the end for Jordan, the 38th overall player in the country. Jordan has been in attendance for several Temple games in the past few weeks as it is practically home, but Steve Lavin and St. John’s have done more than enough to make the 6-foot-4 guard a priority.
The most anticipated commitment seems to be the one that will take the longest to come. Andrew Wiggins, the unanimous top player in the country, has no set decision and it doesn’t look like he plans to make one anytime soon.
There have been rumblings that Kansas and North Carolina have made up ground on long-time leaders Florida State and Kentucky, but will it be enough?
Sure, those two respective schools may have made a good run at Wiggins, but there is not a doubt that this race will come down to Florida State and Kentucky. Will the rich get richer at Kentucky or will Florida State add another young Canadian star to their roster for the future?
Time will tell.
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