Prospect Trevor Lacey said Wednesday that his college choice will come down to either home-state school Alabama or basketball bluebloods Kansas or Kentucky.
Lacey visited Alabama last weekend. He plays in the Derby Festival Basketball Classic in Louisville this coming Friday.
Then he plans to visit Kansas the following weekend and Kentucky later in May.
“The last three visits will play real factor in my decision,” he said.
For the Derby Festival game, Lacey is rooming with Alabama signee Levi Randolph.
When asked if Randolph was lobbying him to sign with the Tide, Lacey said, “I’m hearing it from Levi a little bit. He’s Bama.”
This lobbying effort had taken the not-so-subtle form of Randolph commenting on the “cold” weather as the players arrived earlier Wednesday, said Lacey, who had his warmup jacket zipped to his neck.
But Kentucky is not without a lobby. Lacey said his science teacher in Huntsville, Ala., is a UK graduate.
“She told me to try Derby pie, or something like that,” he said.
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.
