🚨5-star recruit Emoni Bates commits to Memphis Tigers - Emergency Podcast (College Basketball 8/25)
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
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🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish is joined by Kyle Boone to offer their immediate reactions to Emoni Bates committing to Penny Hardaway and the Memphis Tigers. The guys break down why Bates chose Memphis over other options and what the next few years hold for the Tigers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's scary, Perch. It's Wednesday, August 25, 2021. Welcome back to the CBS Sports |
| 0:08.9 | Eye on College basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss, Kamil fighting, Dodo |
| 0:13.3 | birds and Leaky Black cow bonus here with me. Strong jaw and it's a big development in |
| 0:18.8 | the world of college basketball recruiting tonight. Amani Bates, a consensus top five |
| 0:23.9 | prospect in the class of 2021. The most heralded, uncommitted prospect in the country is no longer |
| 0:33.1 | uncommitted. He has announced a commitment to the University of Memphis, which means Penny |
| 0:37.8 | Hardaway is now going to enroll the number one recruiting class in the country for the |
| 0:42.7 | second time in a three year span in 2019. That class was headlined by James Weisman and |
| 0:49.3 | precious attua, this class headline by Amani Bates and Jalen Duran cowl. You had written about |
| 0:55.0 | the Amani Bates situation earlier in the week and predicted like most others that Amani Bates |
| 1:01.0 | would land at Memphis. So no surprise, but we did take a twisted path to get here for people |
| 1:07.9 | who might be unfamiliar. It was reported by Travis Brannum at 24 seven sports yesterday |
| 1:15.2 | on Tuesday that Amani Bates would be announcing a commitment on Wednesday. Then Amani Bates |
| 1:20.3 | father, Elgin Bates, he woke up on Wednesday morning. He was big mad. Somebody had leaked |
| 1:25.4 | something. He was furious and suggested that the announcement would no longer happen. |
| 1:30.1 | Instead, we'd be doing this on Friday night, which is fine with me. I got nothing else to |
| 1:34.8 | do. So I was planning on Friday night. Then at some point on Wednesday afternoon, Amani Bates |
| 1:41.6 | name showed up on the University of Memphis white pages directory, which suggested he was |
| 1:47.3 | already enrolled at the University of Memphis. So we had this weird situation where a prospect |
| 1:53.8 | who had not yet publicly committed to a school was theoretically already enrolled in a school. |
| 2:00.4 | At that point, I imagine they just decided, let's go on and do this thing. So Amani Bates |
| 2:04.9 | jumped on Instagram a little before six o'clock central and announced he will join his friend |
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