What's new with Harrison Barnes?

KU's number one target did was interview by multiple internet recruiting sites recently and has said that he will cut his list to 5 some time in August and then will have all 5 of the schools conduct in home visits and then take official visits.

I figure KU will be one of the five along with Duke and possibly some of the following Minnesota, Iowa St (he's from Ames and his mom works there in the music department) and then maybe Stanford. Kid is wicked smart so he is going to factor in education when making a decision.

Harrison is also going to be the HS diarist for SLAM magazine, his column is not available online, but since I subscribe to that mag, I'll report it all here.

Xavier Henry did the same thing for SLAM last year and in his last entry he had the following to say about Barnes, "I heard who they got doing the diary next season, and I've actually played with him once or twice- this kid's good."

So X thinks he's good, so that's good, but we already knew he was a stud.
In Barnes first entry he talked about how he will never be as physically imposing as Lebron so he has started to mold his game after Kobe because he feels that he can score like Kobe.
While growing up his mom taped every Michael Jordan game and he would watch them and use that as a template for his game.

I'd love nothing more than to see Harrison in a KU uniform in about 15 months, let's hope that happens.

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