Perry Ellis, a 6-8 forrward from Wichita Heights, Kan., counts Kentucky among the long list of suitors. He’s been hearing from colleges since the eighth grade.
“Back then, I thought, ‘What’s going on?’ ” Ellis said after his second game Thursday at the King City Classic camp in Cleveland. “I didn’t know. That’s a lot of pressure. Everybody wanting autographs. Now I understand that’s how it is.”
Ellis said he received his first college scholarship offer as a ninth grader: from Kansas. He decided to wait and see how the process unfolded.
Now he hears from Kansas, Kansas State, Memphis, Oklahoma, Wake Forest, Stanford and North Carolina as well as UK.
Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald- Leader has covered Kentucky basketball since the 1981-82 season. That time includes five coaches, five Final Fours, four athletic directors, two interim athletic directors and many memories. Before coming to Lexington, Tipton worked eight years for the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch. He covered Marshall’s basketball team for two seasons before coming to the Herald-Leader.
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