Huge recruiting weekend on tap for Louisville

by Mike Rutherford on Feb 26, 2011 12:08 AM EST in Basketball

As if playing host to a top five team in late February wasn't excitement enough, it appears U of L will be receiving visits from five of the most highly-touted high school basketball players in the country over the weekend.

According to Scout.com's Evan Daniels, five-star class of 2012 prospects Shabazz Muhammad and Gary Harris will attend Louisville's home game against Pittsburgh, along with four-star class of 2013 recruit Zak Irvin and Cardinal commitments Rodney Purvis and Negus Webster-Chan.

Jody Demling had previously reported that Muhammad's AAU teammate Winston Shepard would also be visiting, but Daniels says this is not the case. Demling is on furlough from The Courier-Journal this week, so everything posted on his blog was actually written several days ago.

Harris and Irvin are teammates and Hamilton Southeastern (Ind.), and led their squad to a regular season-ending 15-point victory on Friday night.

Muhammad has offers from every major program in the country, though it was hinted weeks ago that Kentucky and Duke might be the favorites for his services. Harris is ranked as the second-best shooting guard in the class of 2012 by Scout, and the class' 12th best overall player by ESPN.com.

Getting these guys on campus (or back on campus in Muhammad's case) is a big deal.

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Shepard

Wonder what the deal is with him not coming.

by CardsFan922 on Feb 26, 2011 12:15 AM EST via mobile reply actions

I no longer care about the the number of Stars

It’s more or less a guideline for measuring talent. PK! only got his scholarship because he was up at the SAC eatin everything on the court

by bjack357 on Feb 26, 2011 9:01 AM EST via mobile reply actions

I want a hot dog. With a sh*tload of mustard.

I never gave much thought to how many stars a player got. No rating system can never measure heart. But now when I look at 5 stars Wall/Cousins and Jones/Knight, I can’t help but think, “What would Pitino do with these boys when combined with a Knowles, Kuric; two kids with tremendous heart?” True, they wouldn’t be the scorers they are this year at UK in Pitino’s system but you can obviously see that raw talent overcomes almost all. Rick will always find heart…he gravitates towards it when he recruits, but it’d sure be nice to at least see what he can do with a couple of hot dogs. Yeah, that’s right, hot dogs. Louisville fans in general hate hot dogs because they always seem to play for the other team. And I’m not talking about the kind of hot dog that does a 360 or tomahawk dunk and screams at the camera…I talking about the one who gets those kind of dunks, and then drops 30 on you; all the while talking smack to your cheerleaders and student section. The ones you freaking hate but can’t stop. Pitt has had several of those kids in the past. Hated them but really wanted one or two of them…with a sh*tload of mustard.

by David Lyons on Feb 26, 2011 1:24 PM EST reply actions