Chicago PG Boatright picks UConn
Words. Austin Burton
(photo. adidas)
Make it three commitments for Ryan Boatright. After a weekend visit to UNLV failed to sway him, the Chicago-area point guard settled on UConn today — the third time he’s verbally committed. As an eighth-grader, Boatright pegged USC as his school. He eventually de-committed, and going into his senior year at East Aurora H.S., chose West Virginia. Boatright de-committed again soon after, and after whittling his list to UConn, Oklahoma and UNLV, picked the Huskies.
“I want to see if I’ve got a good relationship with the players, a good relationship with the coach,” Boatright told the Las Vegas Sun about his campus visit. “I like UNLV. I like this kind of game — up and down, pick-and-roll. It fits my style of play. I could really blow up in this system.”
Boatright is considered a Top-50 to Top-75 player in the senior class. Standing just 5-foot-10, he dropped 26.2 points and 5.1 assists last season. He is the classic Chicago point guard in that he attacks the basket with no fear. He’s not a score-first point guard, but he can get buckets.
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