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A highly-coveted point guard from the Class of 2026 will make his college commitment live Sunday at 1:15 p.m. ET on CBS Sports HQ, when Taylen Kinney<\/a> announces his decision from a group of finalists that includes Kansas<\/a>, Arkansas<\/a>, Indiana<\/a>, Kentucky<\/a>, Louisville<\/a> and Oregon<\/a>. Kinney is considered a five-star prospect and is ranked the No. 1 point guard in the class, according to 247Sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kansas is believed to be in strong position with Kinney. However, the it should be noted that he’s a Newport, Kentucky native who has been heavily involved with Kentucky and Louisville during the recruiting process. In a slow-moving recruiting cycle, Kinney is an important early domino. Of the 15 players with a five-star prospect grade in the 247Sports rankings, he will be just the third to announce a college commitment. You can watch the announcement live in the\u00a0video below<\/strong>, on the\u00a0CBS Sports App<\/a>\u00a0or via your connected device (Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple TV).\u00a0<\/p>\n The 6-foot-1 playmaker has demonstrated natural scoring ability during his time on the grassroots and high school circuits, but he’s not lacking as a passer. He averaged 20.1 points and five assists per game last season for the Overtime Elite developmental program in Atlanta. 247Sports director of scouting Adam Finkelstein referred to Kinney<\/a> as a “playmaking lead guard who is smooth and versatile with his attack.”<\/p>\n “He’s great in drive-and-kick actions, can make pick-and-roll reads, and understands how to feed the post,” Finkelstein wrote. “He also has a pretty good feel, even while in attack mode, of how to utilize his versatility to make plays without pounding the ball or settling unnecessarily.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images A highly-coveted point guard from the Class of 2026 will make his college commitment live Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":261426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,2076,9443,8797,8801,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-261425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-indiana-hoosiers","11":"tag-kansas-jayhawks","12":"tag-kentucky-wildcats","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-basketball","15":"tag-ncaabasketball","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115282285076790903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}