NCAA Basketball Recruiting: Kentucky, Maryland showing interest in Karim Mane

Ithiel Horton expected to make a decision soon

Delaware transfer Ithiel Horton is expected to make a decision between Pitt and Arkansas in the “next week-and-a-half,” per Adam Zagoria of ZAGSBLOG. He took an unofficial visit to Pitt on Sunday and an official visit to Arkansas on Monday. Both programs have made the rising sophomore a priority.

Pitt seemingly has the edge with a couple of scholarships available and the likely departure of Xavier Johnson after the upcoming season. While Verbal Commits lists the Razorbacks already having used their allotted 13 scholarships, Nikki Chavanelle of HawgBeat is reporting that coach Eric Musselman still has one left to give out.

Regardless, I still believe that Horton will choose Pitt.

Other recruiting tidbits

• The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets offered a trio of prospects a scholarship on July 3 including 2022 small forward Julian Phillips (Columbia, SC), 2021 four-star forward Joshua Taylor (Decatur, GA) and 2021 four-star shooting guard Kowacie Reeves Jr (Macon, GA). Taylor is of major interest to the Yellow Jackets although he holds 14 total offers. Reeves holds eight offers while Phillips has six offers.
• Northwest College (Wyo.) Lagio Grantsaan has landed at Morgan State. The 6-8, 240-pound forward averaged 13.8 points, 8.2 rebounds, and 2.4 assists while shooting 47.9% from the field and 30.2% from beyond the arc. The Netherlands native has two years of eligibility remaining.
• Eastern Kentucky grad transfer Dujuanta “Tay” Weaver transferred to Saint Louis on July 3. He averaged 10.2 points, 2.8 rebounds, and 2.2 assists last season for the Colonels last season. Weaver reportedly chose St. Louis over Arizona and New Mexico.
• Former Nebraska small forward Nana Akenten has transferred to Southeast Missouri State. Akenten averaged 4.2 points and 2.4 rebounds in 12.8 minutes over 28 games last year for the Cornhuskers. He has two years of eligibility left after sitting out this coming season.
• PSU offered 2021 point guard Jalen Warley (Philadelphia) and small forward Jadun Michael (Burlington, NC) on July 3. Warley now has six offers with Clemson and Temple being the only other power-7 schools. Meanwhile, Michael has 11 offers and picked up offers from Texas A&M, Providence and DePaul over the last two weeks.
• 2019 6-7 forward Bakari Simmons (Chicago, IL) signed with Texas A&M on July 3. He is the sixth player in Buzz Williams first recruiting class with the Aggies although the only one to sign a National Letter of Intent, thus far. The Aggies recruiting class is currently ranked 37th in the nation by 247Sports and features five three-star recruits — Cashius McNeilly, Emanuel Miller, Quenton Jackson, Yavuz Gultekin and Andre Gordon. Jackson is the only non-freshman of the group as he is a rising junior after transferring from Central Florida College. Texas A&M still has one scholarship remaining.

• Reggie Miller (Houston, TX) received an offer from Chicago State on July 3.
• 2020 forward Sam Thomson (Brooks, MA) received an offer from Elon on July 4.
• 2019 Schoolcraft College (MI)  center Alex Ismail has transferred to Bethune-Cookman on July 4.
• Cleveland State transfer Tyree Appleby canceled his visit to Arkansas on Tuesday.
• Coach Bruce Pearl is still looking to fill out the Tennessee Volunteers roster for 2019-20 campaign as he has one scholarship available following redshirt freshman D.J. Burns decision to enter the NCAA transfer portal.