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Emmanuel Mudiay to visit Kentucky, trim list to five at the end of the month

PHILADELPHIA -- Reebok’s Breakout Classic kicked off in with style, as top ten recruits Rashad Vaughn and Emmanuel Mudiay squared off in the first game of the first day.

The game itself ended up being a bust, as neither Mudiay or Vaughn played all that well with Mudiay’s team winning in a rout. Andrew Wiggins vs. Julius Randle, this was not. It was, however, a chance for Mudiay to play in front of two of the head coaches currently pursuing the Texas native: Larry Brown and John Calipari.

“I notice them. They wink at me here and there,” Mudiay, who is ranked No. 3 in the Class of 2014 according to Rivals and who is the No. 2 PG in the class, said with a chuckle on Wednesday afternoon. “I’m used to it now.”

Mudiay’s list is down to ten school: Kentucky, SMU, Arizona, Baylor, Kansas, Louisville, NC State, Oklahoma State, St. John’s and Texas. He said he’ll be trimming that list to five by the end of the month.

But he’s only scheduled a visit with one of those schools, having locked in a trip to Lexington for an official visit during Big Blue Madness. And if you’ve ever seen the videos from Big Blue Madness, you understand why. And while SMU doesn’t seem like the kind of basketball program that can compete for a recruit like Mudiay with a school like Kentucky, the Mustangs have a puncher’s chance, Mudiay says.

“They’re 20 minutes away from the house and they’ve got a legend there in the office,” Mudiay said. “The thing about Larry Brown that I love is that he don’t talk to me just about basketball. He talks to me about family and life, and that’s a big thing to me. He’s religious, I’m religious.”

Mudiay has said all spring and summer that the thing that he’s working on the most in competing on every possession, which isn’t exactly a promising thing to hear from a star lead guard. But it’s also understandable; when you’re criss-crossing the country all spring and summer playing in event after event where the outcome of the games don’t matter, it’s not easy to care about every single possession.

At least Mudiay is open about that fact.

It’s also not the only part of his game he’s working on improving.

“Being more consistent with my shooting, I’ve been working on that,” he said. “I’m getting better. Mo Williams, my coach for AAU basketball, has been working with me.”

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