J’Mison Morgan, one of the top basketball players in Texas and the No. 23-ranked player in the country, will be on Kansas University’s campus this weekend for an official recruiting visit.
Another Texan who was slated to make his visit to KU with Morgan, however, won’t be coming to town.
Phillip McDonald, a 6-foot-5 shooting guard from Cypress Springs outside of Houston, orally committed to the University of New Mexico late Tuesday night over KU, Oregon, Oklahoma and UConn.
The commitment was reported on the Internet edition of the Albuquerque Tribune newspaper.
“Coach Alford has been recruiting me for a long time, and he has done the things I want to do as a player,” McDonald told the paper, referring to former Indiana guard Steve Alford, in his first year at UNM.
“I just knew in my heart that New Mexico was the right place for me, and I wanted to be a Lobo.”
He visited New Mexico’s campus last weekend.
“I talked to a lot of coaches and no one else told me I would be the face of their program,” McDonald, Rivals.com’s No. 87-rated player, said.
Meanwhile, Morgan scheduled his trip to Kansas during Monday’s in-home visit with Jayhawk coach Bill Self. He trekked to LSU last weekend and also has Kentucky, Alabama, UCLA and Louisville on his list.
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Little to visit K-State: Mario Little, a 6-5 sophomore from Chipola (Fla.) Junior College, will visit Kansas State this weekend, Chipola coach Greg Heiar said Tuesday night.
Little also is scheduled to visit Illinois on Sept. 28.
Little had said he might cancel all other trips following last weekend’s “great” visit to KU.
“Mario really likes Kansas, but it’s only fair he takes the visit to Kansas State and let coach (Frank) Martin show him the campus and his program,” Heiar said. “Coach Martin has been here several times. Kansas State has recruited him awhile, and he will go ahead with his plans to visit.”
Little, who attended Washington High in Chicago, already has made an unofficial visit to Illinois.
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On the road: KU coach Self traveled to Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Va., on Tuesday to check in on Willie Warren, a 6-3 guard considering KU, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas and others. He has yet to finalize a visit date to KU.
