Despite reports that Xavier and C.J. Henry will not visit Kentucky, the latest news is that the brothers will trip there this coming weekend.
“Now they’re going to visit Kentucky at the end of this week,” Carl Henry said early Monday afternoon. “My youngest son [Xavier] called me and said he wanted to go visit. It just happened thirty minutes ago.”
Carl had initially told reporters the boys would not visit and would announce Wednesday among Kansas, Kentucky and Memphis. Now that decision — and potentially Lance Stephenson’s as well — will be put off. Stephenson could end up at Kansas if the Henrys go to Kentucky or remain at Memphis; and he could go to St. John’s or Maryland if they pick Kansas.
“Both of them get out of school Friday,” Carl said. “They’re both going to go visit [Kentucky].”
Both Kentucky coach John Calipari and Kansas coach Bill Self flew to New York Saturday night to make their recruiting pitch to Xavier.
“I wasn’t there,” Carl said. “I was out of town myself. They just said it was the same recruiting stuff.”
Asked when the boys might decide, Carl said: “I couldn’t tell you, man. I”m so ready for it to be over with.”
Xavier Henry, the No. 3 recruit in the Class of 2009, told me last week he could still end up at Memphis even though he and his brother have secured their releases.
“It depends on if my brother can get out of his thing and go transfer and play his first year,” Xavier said. “If he can’t then I might still play with him at Memphis. I don’t know yet.”
C.J., a walk-on at Memphis, would need to transfer to either Kansas or Kentucky and then appeal the NCAA for a waiver to allow him to play immediately. Yet there’s no guarantee that will happen. Such waivers are only granted in extreme circumstances, such as when a family member is dying.
“It’ll take time,” Henry said. “I don’t know. It could be quick. It could take a long time. It’s just the NCAA, whatever they decide.”
Come on Kansas fans back your arguments up with links and such. I am a fan of neither and I’ve been to both and like always Kentucky fans think they are the only show in town. It is not even close, I’m sorry Kentucky fans. Allen Fieldhouse is an american gem,plain and simple. It is the first college hoops arena on ESPN’s top 100 sports venues of all time.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/080919/venues/11-100
Rupp didn’t make the top 100. If you don’t support Kentucky and can view it as a non-biased college hoops fan, Allen Fieldhouse blows Rupp out of the water.
to add to mike-d, here’s a link i saw at beginning of the school year. Just read the bottom part
http://www.kucheer.com/whyku/basketball.shtml
Canceled, back on, canceled back on yeesh. Didn’t someone recently sign a LOI with UK without even visiting?
those are some well people from ESPN so just thought of sharing. Enjoy and this drama needs to end. Good luck to everyone’s team
The interview everyone is
The interview everyone is quoting as saying the visit is canceled…doesn’t at all say the visit is canceled.
‘Asked if they had any plans to make a visit to UK this weekend, as their father had suggested earlier on Monday, C.J. said: “I haven’t really talked to him about that. I don’t think there are any plans to do that. We might. I don’t know. I guess we need to talk about it.’
That’s a quote. So, Xavier told his dad they’re going to visit, but CJ says tonight that he doesn’t know if they are…
Doesn’t seem to be decided either way. To be sure, it doesn’t sound like the two guys have spoke to one another…
That family needs to get together, and have a pow-wow.
After all this I wouldn’t doubt X ends up going to Kansas, and CJ staying at Memphis.
For all you Phog Allen Fieldhouse lovers…
Know this: UK leads the NCAA in attendance in good and bad times for the program.
Also, the most ever attendance for a single game was the Basketbowl — around 78000 went to Ford Field.
They had Basketbowl 2 this year, with UNC vs. MSU — the attendance record was not broken.
Kansas’ average is capacity = consecutive sell-outs.
Kentucky’s average is below Rupp capacity.
http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/m_basketball_RB/2009/Attendance.pdf
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=84640&cat=6
Xavier Henry, the nation’s top high school shooting guard, has cancelled a visit to Kentucky and is close to making a college decision, according to reports by JayhawkSlant.com.
Henry and his brother C.J. are near a decision on their college choice, according to Carl Henry, their father. “Xavier and C.J. have decided not to visit Kentucky,” said Carl Henry. “They are not going to take the trip. I spoke to the both of them and they are done taking visits. Xavier and C.J. have told me they plan to announce a final decision in two days.
“I really have no idea where they are leaning,” he added. “Those two, they changes their mind so much. If they didn’t change their mind so much, I might have a better idea. What I do know is that no visit to Kentucky is going to happen. They plan to make let everybody know in two days.”
Yup, KU is at 129 consecutive sell outs after last season.
Old news chronic.
The latest:
C.J. Henry, who hadn’t been heard from publicly the past couple of weeks during the Henry brothers’ recruiting saga, spoke to Kentucky.rivals.com on Monday night.
He had the last word on a day in which there were conflicting reports from his dad, Carl, on whether basketball prospects C.J. and Xavier Henry would be making a trip to Kentucky this week in advance of their choosing either Kansas University, Kentucky or Memphis.
“I don’t think there are any plans to do that,” C.J. Henry said, asked by Kentucky.rivals.com about a possible trip to Lexington. “We might. I don’t know. I guess we need to talk about it.”
Former KU player Carl Henry told both the Journal-World and Kansas.rivals.com in separate interviews Monday morning that his sons told him no trip to Kentucky would be made this week.
Two hours later, Carl told Zagsblog.net that a trip to Kentucky indeed would be on tap.
“They told me they want to get it (recruiting) over with and really don’t need to make a visit to Kentucky,” Carl told the J-W. “They know the styles of play of both coaches and will make a decision without making any more visits. That’s what they told me.”
Later, Carl told Zagsblog that Xavier called, and his youngest son told dad he definitely wanted to visit Kentucky.
On Monday night, C.J. Henry, who was a 6-foot-3, non-scholarship, red-shirt guard this year on Memphis’ basketball team, indicated “nothing has changed. It’s still Memphis, Kentucky, Kansas. All I know is that wherever it is, we just want to play together.”
That may be able to happen only at Memphis.
C.J., unless he wins an appeal, will have to sit out a season if he transfers to either KU or Kentucky. Xavier, a 6-6 guard from Oklahoma City’s Putnam City High School, insists he will only play one year of college basketball prior to entering the NBA Draft.
“Mainly we’re just looking for a place to play basketball and get a good education,” C.J. Henry told Kentucky.rivals.com. “I think we could probably do that at any of these schools.”
C.J. told the Web site it was a five-hour drive from his hometown of Oklahoma City to Lawrence, seven hours to Memphis and 14 hours to Kentucky.
“That won’t be the main factor, though. The main thing is being able to get the job done and get to the next level,” C.J. said, not giving the Web site a date for his decision.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/apr/21/henrys-will-visit-uk-unless-they-dont/
RUPP’s average attendance — is about 5000 more fans than Allen’s capacity…
Are you guys really still having this argument? If it’s really going to continue, now would be an opportune time to make an actual point.
The bottom line is that both schools are going to give each player the exposure they are looking for prior to entering the draft. What you guys should really be discussing is the systems in place for each team. The dribble drive offense of Kentucky can really highlight the abilities of a slasher (tends to be the offense of choice for most young ball hogging gaurds these days) where as the Kansas offensive system incorporates a more traditional style allowing for players to develop an all around game. For the purposes of a one and done star, I think that the Calipari offense becomes very attractive because it allows quick and talented gaurds the ability to see a lot of the ball and put up big numbers quickly which can than increase thier draft number. At Kansas you will see the slow (yet effective development) of a player like Tyshawn Taylor who already made great strides his freshman year and will continue to develop a great all around game. With that said, even though Lance would prob put up bigger numbers at a Maryland/St Johns style program, it would prob be in his better interest to go to a Kansas where he can rely on other players more and not have to shoulder all the responsibility that he did at Lincoln against the good teams (Even if Henry goes there as well). NBA scouts know how good both of these guys are and even if they are not the only one in the spotlight, an all around player (Such as a Brian Westbrook) still gets the attention of the scouts.
Correction – Meant to say Russell Westbrook in the previous post.
Apologies to the UK-KU crowd, but hands down, Cameron Indoor Stadium has the best atmosphere for basketball. It’s not even close. And I’m no Duke fan.