Luke Barnett, who has emerged as one of the top shooters in the men’s basketball recruiting class of 2026, has verbally committed to playing at Kansas.

Barnett, a 6-foot-3, 170-pound senior combo guard from Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, Calif., chose KU over Miami and UNLV Friday afternoon on CBS Sports’ college hoops YouTube channe

Barnett attended the Jayhawks’ recent Late Night in the Phog season-kickoff event as part of an official recruiting visit to Lawrence. He is ranked No. 113 in the recruiting class of 2026 by Rivals.com and No. 144 by 247sports.com .

At one time he also was considering TCU, Villanova, DePaul, Arizona State, Washington, Stanford, Purdue, Nevada, Boise State and other schools. Barnett had planned on visiting TCU this weekend, but after meeting with KU hea

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