4. There's no place like home for Andrew WigginsIn undoubtedly the longest recruiting process of a major boys basketball recruit ever,
Andrew Wiggins of
Huntington Prep (Huntington, W. Va.) picked Kansas over Kentucky, Florida State and North Carolina on the last day of the signing period May 15.
Andrew Wiggins kept the country on hold until the
final day of the basketball signing period.
Photo by Danny Wild
The
6-foot-7 wing, who is considered one of the nation's best prospects
since LeBron James, averaged 23.4 points and 11.1 rebounds as a senior
at Huntington Prep.
"I think Wiggins single-handedly vaults
Kansas from a fringe top-25 team to a legitimate Final Four threat,"
CBSSports.com college basketball blogger Jeff Borzello told MaxPreps.
"He's going to be a preseason All-American and possibly National Player
of the Year. He will be the go-to guy immediately and could approach
18-20 points per game."
Wiggins' recruitment spawned its
own website, where fans could vote on where he should go (North Carolina led the way) and follow a Twitter feed devoted to mentions of him.
According to Grant Traylor of the Huntington Herald-Dispatch and Huntington Prep head coach Rob Fulford, even folks in the crab cake industry got involved.
Yes, the crab cake industry.
"Last
week, we had a guy who delivers crab cakes for a living say he
overheard (North Carolina coach) Roy Williams saying Andrew was going to
commit to them on such-and-such date and people believed him," Fulford
told the Herald-Dispatch. "So I have to respond to national media about
Johnny Crabcakes as a source.
"If a guy that sells crab cakes for
a living is a source for the best high school basketball player in the
country, our country is in a mess."
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