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NEW YORK — Tyus Battle, who this summer has won a gold medal with the USA U17 team at the FIBA World Championships and led Team Scan to the semifinals of the Peach Jam, has set two key recruiting visits for this fall.
The 6-foot-5 Gill St. Bernard’s guard will trip to Kentucky Oct. 17 for Big Blue Madness and to Duke Oct. 25 for their Countdown to Craziness. Both visits will be unofficial.
“He wants to go to Big Blue Madness,” Gary Battle, Tyus’s father, told SNY.tv Friday after the Under Armour Elite 24 practice. “A lot of his good buddies from USA Baskeball will be there and of course Kentucky’s Kentucky.”
Battle visited Kentucky earlier this summer during a swing in which he also visited Louisville and picked up offers from both.
“[Kentucky is a] really great school,” Tyus said in the above video interview. “The facilities are amazing. Coach Cal is a really great guy, easy to get along with, that’s why I liked it a lot.”
He and Findlay Prep guard Derryck Thornton, who was selected for the Elite 24 but cannot play because of a hand injury, have discussed playing together in college, with Kentucky, UConn and Michigan among the schools recruiting both.
Meantime, Duke has been hard after Battle but he has yet to visit.
“Duke, we’ve never been there so that was already on the agenda anyway,” Gary said. “It’s a good time to go. It’s similar to the Big Blue Madness, they have whatever they have over there.”
Battle is also being courted by Louisville, Indiana, UConn, Syracuse, Villanova and Arizona, among others.
“We’re definitely go to take other visits,” Gary said. “As we narrow our list down to a Top 10, we’ll visit all those schools at some point in time on an unofficial visit.”
