Deron Rippey Jr. is the latest Kentucky recruit to make his way to Lexington. The New Jersey native arrived on campus this week and took his official visit to the University of Kentucky.<\/p>\n
The 5-star guard spent a couple of days with the Wildcats coaching staff, getting an up-close look at one of the most historic programs in college basketball.<\/p>\n
That included Tuesday\u2019s Kentucky Basketball Pro Day, where Rippey was seen taking shots with Jasper Johnson after the event ended, as captured by Kai McClelland.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been very definitely one of the more consistent schools. You know, reaching out to me almost every day. They\u2019ve been at a lot of events this year, valuing my game and giving me feedback. And I\u2019m just interested to see what a top-tier blue blood, and a program with a history of NBA guards, what it looks like down there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Blair Academy guard said he expects to trim his list of schools and make a decision sometime during the college basketball regular season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll probably narrow things down after I finish all my visits,\u201d Rippey said. \u201cAnd then with my commitment, I\u2019m definitely going to watch a couple of weeks of college basketball. I\u2019ll probably announce somewhere in the middle of the early and late periods.\u201d Rippey\u2019s final official visit will be on November 7th at NC State.<\/p>\n
As Rippey\u2019s recruitment winds down, he plans to take his visits and then weigh his options. The Wildcats have been heavily involved in his recruitment, and probably will have a good chance to land the Blair Academy guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deron Rippey Jr. is the latest Kentucky recruit to make his way to Lexington. The New Jersey native…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":287398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1541,41241,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-287397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball","10":"tag-kentucky-wildcats-mens-basketball-recruiting","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaabasketball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115340429535601035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287397","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=287397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}