Men’s hoops: Recruiting update
By Scott Wright
Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel continues to search for either a point guard or scorer to fill Keith Clark’s vacant scholarship, and a few names seem to be falling off the list of potential recruits.
Georgia wing Travis Leslie recently gave Rivals.com his top five schools and Oklahoma was not among them. Though the Sooners seemed to be intrigued by Leslie’s athletic ability, the word on the 6-foot-6 Atlanta product is that his basketball skills are unpolished. Capel doesn’t really need to spend time waiting for a prospect to develop. He’d be better off waiting to see if Clark got his grades in order at Rose State and bringing him back instead.
Another name that has circulated on Internet message boards is Humble, Texas, point guard Garland Judkins. He’s a 6-foot-4, 200-pound slasher who the Sooners have had their eye on for a while.
But Judkins said Monday night that the Sooners haven’t been recruiting him all that heavily.
“OU is a place I wanted to go, and still would, but they haven’t been recruiting me that much,” Judkins said. “I”m mostly looking at Miami, Texas A&M and UTEP.”
Judkins’ coach, Carlos Wilson, said he hasn’t had any contact with the OU coaches recently, so it doesn’t look like Judkins is going to get an offer unless something else falls through.
That being said, the prospects OU is really targeting now are Kevin Galloway and Juan Pattillo of the College of Southern Idaho, as well as Brad Tinsley, a high school senior in Oregon City, Ore. Galloway is CSI’s 6-foot-6 point guard and Pattillo is one of the team’s leading scorers as a 6-foot-7 swingman.
There was an erroneous report last week that Galloway had committed to Kentucky, but his coaches continue to stress that none of their players will commit until after the season. Still, Billy Gillispie and the Wildcats look to be the front-runners.
Tinsley is becoming the Jai Lucas of this year’s class. The 6-foot-3 point guard is drawing interest from so many schools, it’s hard for even he and his father to keep track. Kentucky, Oregon, Texas A&M, Arizona, Marquette, Colorado and Iowa have offered. North Carolina and Tennessee have been to see him play. Tinsley originally was most interested in playing on the West Coast, but that could change, according to his father, Carl.
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