Five-star point guard commits to Tennessee
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🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker and Grant Ramey convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss five-star point guard Kennedy Chandler’s commitment to Tennessee.
Chandler, the nation’s No. 11 overall prospect and No. 1 point guard prospect in the 2021 industry-generated 247Sports Composite, is a Memphis native who recently transferred to play his senior season at powerhouse Sunrise Christian Academy in Wichita, Kan. He could have played anywhere but ultimately chose the Vols over Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina and hometown Memphis — who will be especially irked to lose a five-star Memphian to the hated Vols?
Why did Chandler pick Tennessee? Who helped him make that decision? How could Chandler’s game best be described? How has Rick Barnes turned Tennessee into a place where so many five-star prospects want to play? How has assistant coach Kim English already established himself as an elite recruiter? And perhaps most importantly, which elite prospects across the nation might follow Chandler to give the Vols another blockbuster class? Those are the primary discussion points in this one-segment, breaking-news episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Alright. What's up y'all? Welcome on into the Go-Valls 24-7 podcast West record coming to you from |
| 0:19.6 | Fort Rucker Studio and as you can tell by the truncated version of this intro we've got a |
| 0:25.6 | breaking news edition of the Go balls 24-7 podcast not just me got Grant |
| 0:30.4 | Ramey from the Blunk County Satellite Office ago of all 24-7 down in Maryville and I will let Grant |
| 0:36.4 | explain to you why we are having this breaking news podcast. It is big big news grant. Why are we here? |
| 0:44.0 | 2021 5-star point guard Kennedy Chandler has announced his commitment Friday afternoon |
| 0:50.0 | to Tennessee, Tennessee basketball with another |
| 0:53.0 | the third five star in the last three recruiting cycles to date in this |
| 0:57.0 | 2021 classes. |
| 0:58.8 | Just getting started, he's the number 11 overall player in the 24-7 |
| 1:02.2 | composite a five star prospect, the number one point guard in the class. |
| 1:05.8 | Out of Memphis, Briarchrist Christian kid who recently transferred to Sunrise Christian Academy in Kansas |
| 1:11.4 | for his senior season. |
| 1:13.3 | He played with the Mokan Elite. |
| 1:14.9 | A-A-U program, Tennessee's, basically, |
| 1:17.6 | this has been a priority, maybe priority number one |
| 1:20.9 | in the 21 class for a couple of years now and they've made that |
| 1:24.3 | priority known and it goes out to Kim English since the assistant coach the guy |
| 1:27.9 | who's he who's in Memphis a ton while he could travel and be on the road |
| 1:31.8 | back before everything got shut down. |
| 1:34.0 | They got candy on campus for an official visit last October and that's really paid off big |
| 1:39.1 | dividends now that recruiting has been shut down for as long as it has. |
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