Recruiting Update: New Offers and Tons of Transfers

<p>With the summer basketball season over with, some players have started adding new offers to their lists and several Kentucky kids have made the move to new high schools. Here’s the latest news from all around the state.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>New Scholarship Offers:</strong></span></p> <p><strong>[player_tooltip player_id="793828" first="Sam" last="Vinson"]</strong> now unofficially leads the 2021 class in number of offers received. Vinson recently added offers from George Washington, Toledo and Miami (OH) to bring his total to 5 offers as Bellarmine and NKU had already offered the high scoring guard from Northern Kentucky.</p> <p>Our current #1 ranked player in 2023 <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="932764" first="Kaleb" last="Glenn"] </strong>was offered by Georgia Southern last week. That’s Glenn’s first offer.</p> <p>Illinois and Florida State have both offered 2023 Center <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="1022269" first="Cyr" last="Malonga"]</strong> of Evangel Christian. Malonga has yet to play a KHSAA game but has had a big AAU season for the Louisville Defenders.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>High School Transfer News:</strong></span></p> <p>Senior [player_tooltip player_id="923066" first="Xander" last="Terry"] has made the short move from Jackson City to Jackson County. Terry averaged 23 points and 6 rebounds per game as a Junior.</p> <p>Bardstown landed 2 transfers as <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="926925" first="Yared" last="Raley"]</strong> (from Bullitt East) and <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="926888" first="Bryce" last="Riley"]</strong>  (from Nelson County) both enrolled recently. There are rumors that there could be 2 more transfers at Bardstown but nothing confirmed.</p> <p>One of the state’s top 2022 prospects <strong>Brandon Rayzer-Moore</strong> has made the move across the bridge from Jeffersontown to Jeffersonville, Indiana.</p> <p>Corbin has lost 2 players to nearby Lynn Camp as <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="1009763" first="Gavin" last="Allen"] and [player_tooltip player_id="926936" first="Micah" last="Engle"]</strong> both transferred from Corbin.</p> <p>2022 forward <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="926898" first="Mitchell" last="Rylee"]</strong> has transferred from Beechwood to Covington Catholic and will hope to get eligible to play right away. The big man is a double double threat an would make the Colonel front court very deep.</p> <p>Covington Catholic also landed a transfer from Ohio as <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="1038878" first="Skyler" last="Schmidt"] </strong>will play in Kentucky this season. Schmidt is a 6’6 power forward with an offer from New Orleans who was ranked 35th in Ohio’s 2021 class. </p>