Self hitting recruiting trail

By J-W Staff Reports     Apr 27, 2004

Now is the time for college coaches, like Kansas University’s Bill Self, to make their pitches to prep recruits.

And so, Monday, during the spring recruiting evaluation period, the first-year KU coach made his way to East Orange, N.J., to visit with Brandon Costner, a 6-foot-9, 230-pound junior forward out of Seton Hall Prep School.

“Kansas is one school I will officially visit,” Costner told Shay Wildeboor of rivals.com after what he deemed an impressive meeting with Self. “Coach Self and I are still working on a date, but the visit will happen in the fall.”

Costner has a list of KU, North Carolina State, Florida, Connecticut, Michigan, Indiana and Villanova, among others.

Today, Self will meet with Tyler Smith, 6-7, 210 from Pulaski, Tenn. Thursday, he’ll visit Micah Downs, 6-8 from Bothell, Wash. Friday, he’s scheduled to meet with Mario Chalmers, 6-1, 165 from Anchorage, Ala. Those players also are all juniors.

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Galindo visits Pitt: Alex Galindo, a 6-7 guard/forward from Newark, N.J., visited Pitt last weekend. He’ll visit Rutgers this weekend, then KU on May 7. A native of Puerto Rico, Galindo was awed at a Pittsburgh Pirates game when he saw a statue of Puerto Rican baseball great Roberto Clemente. “That meant a lot to me,” he said. Of his decision, he said, “Those are the only three schools right now. I just want to compare all three schools first before I make a decision.”

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Malik update: The Malik Hairston saga apparently has entered the home stretch. The 6-5 guard from Detroit, who, according to his dad, had a “good trip” to the University of Oregon last weekend, will visit Oklahoma this weekend. Hairston plans to pick either KU, OU, Ohio State, UCLA, Michigan or Oregon next week.

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