Basketball: Collinsworth's top five includes BYU
As previously mentioned, we watched the state's most-recruited basketball player, Provo High's Kyle Collinsworth, play in Las Vegas on Wednesday night in the adidas Super 64 tournament at Rancho High.
Collinsworth scored 23 points and was clearly the best player on the floor. He struggled at the free-throw line and with turnovers early, but simply took over in the second half.
Here's what Greg Hicks of Scout.com wrote about the 6-foot-5 star:
Collinsworth isn't a big-time athlete, but he's a solid basketball player. Good skill level, very good feel for the game and a good competitor. Shot is better off the bounce than catch.
Scout.com gives Collinsworth, generally considered to be one of the top 100 prospects in the country, four stars.
After the game Collinsworth told me that reports saying he will make his college choice in the next few weeks are "probably" inaccurate.
"I will probably just take my [official] visits," he said.
Recruits cannot take their official visits until they start they senior years of high school, so that means Collinsworth won't decide until sometime after Sept. 1. However, he said he still expects to sign when the early signing period begins in November.
He said he has narrowed his choices to Kansas, Arizona State, BYU, Virginia and Stanford.
All but Kansas have offered.
"They are close, though," Collinsworth said.
He noted that Georgetown, UCLA and UConn have been expressing interest lately and coaches from those schools have called him. If any of those three offer, he may rework his top-five list.
Representatives from all three schools were on hand Wednesday night, as were coaches from BYU and Stanford.
Does Collinsworth make a mental note of which coaches are watching?
"Yeah, pretty much. But most of them call me before the tournament starts," he said.
Collinsworth scored 23 points and was clearly the best player on the floor. He struggled at the free-throw line and with turnovers early, but simply took over in the second half.
Here's what Greg Hicks of Scout.com wrote about the 6-foot-5 star:
Collinsworth isn't a big-time athlete, but he's a solid basketball player. Good skill level, very good feel for the game and a good competitor. Shot is better off the bounce than catch.
Scout.com gives Collinsworth, generally considered to be one of the top 100 prospects in the country, four stars.
After the game Collinsworth told me that reports saying he will make his college choice in the next few weeks are "probably" inaccurate.
"I will probably just take my [official] visits," he said.
Recruits cannot take their official visits until they start they senior years of high school, so that means Collinsworth won't decide until sometime after Sept. 1. However, he said he still expects to sign when the early signing period begins in November.
He said he has narrowed his choices to Kansas, Arizona State, BYU, Virginia and Stanford.
All but Kansas have offered.
"They are close, though," Collinsworth said.
He noted that Georgetown, UCLA and UConn have been expressing interest lately and coaches from those schools have called him. If any of those three offer, he may rework his top-five list.
Representatives from all three schools were on hand Wednesday night, as were coaches from BYU and Stanford.
Does Collinsworth make a mental note of which coaches are watching?
"Yeah, pretty much. But most of them call me before the tournament starts," he said.
1 Comments:
I've thought from the start that Kyle is bound for Provo, and I still think that's what will happen. It's just too hard for Provo kids to escape the gravity there. But, man, look at the coaches who he could play for - Jim Calhoun, Bill Self, Johnny Dawkins, Ben Howland. It's a real honor to be wanted by these guys. Congrats.
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