When Northern Kentuckian and former Newport High star Taylen Kinney makes his national announcement on his college choice Sunday, Sept. 28, on the CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube Channel, it’s looking like the five-star combo guard will much more likely choose KU – Kansas – over UK, and his native Kentucky.
That’s the latest intel from the folks at Rivals.com who have upped their Kansas pick to 60 percent confidence for Kinney, now listed as 6-foot-3 as he enters his second year at Atlanta’s Overtime Elite program. Also missing out will be home-state Louisville, another finalist program that was near the top of Kinney’s list for a time.
The announcement will be live at 1:15 p.m. on the 28th. And while UK has stayed involved with Kinney, the sense is that the Wildcats are more i