Thursday Quickies: Keion Brooks Watch Edition

One day away from his decision, all eyes are on Keion Brooks.

By Zac Oakes@ZacOakes Mar 14, 2019, 6:40am EDT

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Just one day away from Keion Brooks announcing his decision, Kentucky and Indiana are anxiously awaiting his decision.

By now, news usually begins to leak from a recruit’s camp of what the decision will be, but that hasn’t happened a lot with Brooks, a testament to how close he and those around him have kept news on the recruitment.

Kentucky and Indiana were both reportedly in to visit with Brooks this week, but there hasn’t been a whole lot on the rumor mill about how those visits went and if anything changed because of them. One of 247’s notable recruiting guys made a pick for Kentucky following Coach Cal’s visit.

Now, two Rivals recruiting analysts have logged predictions for Kentucky, the most notable being Corey Evans, one of the best in the business.

The projections continue to favor the Wildcats after Brooks was long viewed as an IU lean, but being from Indiana with the draw of staying home along with his friend Trayce Jackson-Davis in the fold for the Hoosiers, you can’t count the home state team out.

It’s been a roller coaster ride for Kentucky’s recruitment of Brooks. He was one of the first players in the class to be offered a scholarship by Kentucky and was thought to be a major Kentucky lean very early on, but then it almost seemed like Kentucky was out of the running completely when they landed commitments from Dontaie Allen and Kahlil Whitney.

If Kentucky can land Brooks, it will be the product of a lot of work by the Kentucky coaching staff, which shows how much potential they believe Brooks could bring to Lexington. He would be an exciting piece to add to the 2019 class, and hopefully Kentucky can seal the deal on Friday with him.

The decision is expected to come at around 8 p.m. ET, which will be near halftime of Kentucky’s game against Ole Miss/Alabama. Hopefully the BBN will be celebrating two big victories Friday night.

Tweets of the Day

Kentucky is playing for history this year in SEC Tourney. The last time an SEC team won five straight tournament titles was back in 1948. Kentucky took down Georgia Tech for their 5th straight at the time.
— Charlie Walter (@CharlieWalterTV) March 13, 2019

A neat fact about what a win this year in the SEC Tourney would mean.

Stanford A.D. Bernard Muir, the chair of the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee, said there would be no problem with bracketing Kentucky as a No. 2 seed with a path to Louisville. No issue with No. 1 seed wondering about fairness playing No. 2 UK in Louisville.
— Jerry Tipton (@JerryTipton) March 13, 2019