Kansas commitment Dajuan Harris jumps in latest Rivals rankings

By Matt Tait     Aug 22, 2019

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Class of 2019 commitment Dajuan Harris, who announced his decision to attend Kansas on July 16, 2019.

Class of 2020 point guard Dajuan Harris recently received an Ochai-Agbaji-like bump in the updated Rivals.com rankings.

Harris, a 6-foot-1, 160-pound point guard from Columbia, Mo., who committed to KU in July and continues to work toward completing the necessary academic requirements to get to campus in time for the 2019-20 school year, went from unranked to No. 83 and from a three-star rating to four.

The jump was inevitable in the eyes of many recruiting analysts, who were predicting a spot in the Top 100 at the time Harris committed to KU.

After initially committing to Missouri State as a member of the Class of 2019, Harris changed gears and reclassified into the 2020 class with plans to attend prep school for the 2019-20 season. But after receiving a release from Missouri State and committing to KU, Harris began work to get back into the 2019 class.

Harris has not yet officially signed with the Jayhawks and does not appear on KU’s current roster. If he’s able to complete his academic work in time to join the roster this month, he will fill the 13th and final scholarship the KU men’s basketball program has available.

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Written By Matt Tait

A native of Colorado, Matt moved to Lawrence in 1988 and has been in town ever since. He graduated from Lawrence High in 1996 and the University of Kansas in 2000 with a degree in Journalism. After covering KU sports for the University Daily Kansan and Rivals.com, Matt joined the World Company (and later Ogden Publications) in 2001 and has held several positions with the paper and KUsports.com in the past 20+ years. He became the Journal-World Sports Editor in 2018. Throughout his career, Matt has won several local and national awards from both the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Kansas Press Association. In 2021, he was named the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Matt lives in Lawrence with his wife, Allison, and two daughters, Kate and Molly. When he's not covering KU sports, he likes to spend his time playing basketball and golf, listening to and writing music and traveling the world with friends and family.