Tyty Washington decision coming tonight

By Matt Tait     May 12, 2021

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Kansas University basketball recruiting

The Tyty Washington decision is now just hours away.

According to ESPN recruiting analyst Paul Biancardi, the four-star point guard from Compass Prep in Phoenix will announce his decision at 8 p.m. tonight on SportsCenter.

Washington, who retweeted Biancardi’s announcement of the new decision time, is expected to choose between Kansas, Kentucky, LSU and Arizona.

Currently ranked as the No. 12 overall prospect in ESPN’s 2021 class, Washington has been one of the most talked about and coveted prospects in the country during the past couple of months.

His status as one of the lone remaining elite point guards in the class made him an attractive option for any program in need. But his performance at GEICO Nationals and last week’s Iverson All-Star Classic added to the buzz surrounding his name.

In a recent breakdown about Washington’s recruitment, Rivals.com analyst Rob Cassidy said the 6-foot-4 guard who has shown elite ability to play both on and off the ball would “almost certainly flirt with five-star status” in the Rivals database during the site’s final 2021 rankings.

Over at 247 Sports, eight of the nine Crystal Ball picks for Washington have been recorded for Kentucky. Two of them came this week. The only non-Kentucky prediction came from Jason Scheer, who runs the Rivals site Arizona Insider. Scheer predicted back on April 24 that Washington was headed to Tucson, Ariz.

We’ll know soon enough, as Washington has moved his announcement up from Saturday to tonight, which, funny enough, was the date he originally announced on Twitter a couple of weeks ago.

**In unrelated but still somewhat interesting other “recruiting” news,** former Kansas guard Bryce Thompson announced on Twitter that his next decision date was slated for Thursday.

Thompson, who left KU after one injury-plagued season with the program, will make his announcement at noon central time.

The former 5-star guard from Tulsa, Okla., is choosing between Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Tulsa, which guarantees that he’ll be staying close to home for his second stint as a college basketball player.

There’s obviously a 67% chance that Thompson will stay in the Big 12, too, which would give the Jayhawks at least two cracks per season at him in the years ahead.

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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.