KU Hoops Recruiting 2009

[teedubya]

Point Guard:

John Wall: Regarded by many as the top point guard in the 2009 class, Wall has expressed interest in Kansas, and ranks them among his top six choices. Stay tuned for how his AAU circuit turns out.

Elijah Johnson: Johnson visited KU earlier this year during the KSU game and was very impressed with his visit. He sites high interest in KU, buts till wants to check out UNLV (his hometown school) and Arizona before he trims his list.

Peyton Siva: Siva has a decent collection of offers and shows high interest in KU, but he may be too small of a guard to receive an offer.

Michael Dixon: Dixon is a Kansas City product who has alot of offers from "Mid-High-Major" programs such as Kansas State, Oklahoma, and Oregon. It remains to be seen if KU will offer him, but as of now he has only expressed interest in KU.

Shooting Guard:

Xavier Henry: Henry is clearly KU's #1 recruiting target for the class of 2009. Earlier in the year Henry trimmed his list to UNC, KU, and Memphis, but has since expressed some interest in UCLA. KU will go balls to the wall for Henry's services, count on it.

Lance Stephenson: My early prediction is that Stephenson will have a wild recruitment process. He has expressed interest in visiting Kansas unofficially this summer.

Small Forward:

Jordan Hamilton: Hamilton lists Texas, Kansas, Syracuse, Connecticut, and California as his top five choices, although he has believed to have been a Texas lean for quite some time now.

Shawn Williams: Williams is showing very high interest in Kansas, Kentucky, and Texas at this point in time. Chances are one of the aforementioned team will get the services of this dominant small forward.

Power Forward:

Reynardo Sidney: My advice: Don't hold your breathe. Sidney briefly mentioned a potential unofficial visit to Kansas in an interview conducted a few months ago, so stay tuned.

Stephan Van Treese: Van Treese comes from a top notch basketball school in Lawrence North, in Indianapolis. The same school that produced Mike Conley and Greg Oden two years ago. KU joins a host of Big Ten offers for Van Treese.

Center:

DaShonte Riley: Riley is an intriguing 6'10" prospect from Michigan, with a similar mold to Darrell Arthur. Riley claims KU as one of his top schools and hopes to visit soon.

Daniel Orton: The Oklahoma City kid has offers from all of the Who's Who's of college basketball powers, including Kansas. However, he seems to be showing the most interest in Florida, and Ohio State, and KU might be easing off the gas in Orton's recruitment.

Final Comments: Keep in mind people, this is still very early in the recruiting process. The way recruiting goes, you can imagine KU might sign maybe one or two of these guys and end up picking up kids that aren't even on the radar right now. I will try to give updates from time to time on the kid's status and what is going on in the world of recruiting in regards to KU. I have to work at 4, so I probably won't be able to answer alot of questions right now, but leave them on here and I will get to them later. I also may add a few prospects soon.

[cmh6476]

I just hope we're good enough to end up at the Sprint Center int he 1st and 2nd, since I already have my tix lined up...

[cmh6476]

also I'd have to guess we'd have a decent shot at landing this dude from Australia now that he's seen we just wont he whole damn thing, right?

http://kansas.scout.com/a.z?s=172&p=...bb&c=4&yr=2008

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Dude, KU will be better than decent. Self has said he thinks the team will be good, potentially very good, and the guys on 810 (Petro, for example) were predicting a 2-3 seed for next year's team, assuming Chalmers stays.

KU will contend for the Big XII next year, and this will probably always be the case as long as Self is the coach. Some years they'll contend for the whole thing.

what else is he gonna say?

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by Laz

what else is he gonna say?

Let me qualify. It wasn't so much the words as it was his tone. Also, as Petro noted after playing the tape of the comment, Self isn't much of a BS guy. If he thought the team would take a step back and struggle some, he would have phrased his response differently. Coach-speak for "We're going to suck" usually starts with, "We're going to be really young" and incorporates, "I really like this team's competitiveness." You know, the stuff we hear from the Chiefs, not the Hawks.