Julius Randle, the No. 1 player in the junior class of 2013, likes Kentucky. He wonders why anyone would not like Kentucky.
“He gets his players to the league and he wins,” Randle said of UK Coach John Calipari. “How do you not like that?”
At this early stage of recruiting, Randle said he had a long list of college options to consider.
Randle, a 6-9 forward from McKinney, Texas, said he had unofficially visited Kansas, Baylor and Oklahoma. Earlier in his high school career, he visited Texas, Kentucky and North Carolina, 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.
