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Missouri, Kansas make prized basketball recruit Michael Porter Jr.’s top 10 cut

By TOD PALMER

The Kansas City Star
Michael Porter Jr., a small forward at Tolton Catholic High in Columbia (shown here playing last month for the Mo-Kan Elite AAU team), whittled his list of potential schools to 10 on Wednesday, and both Missouri and Kansas made the cut. Porter is a five-star recruit and the No. 2 player in the 2017 class, according to Rivals.
Michael Porter Jr., a small forward at Tolton Catholic High in Columbia (shown here playing last month for the Mo-Kan Elite AAU team), whittled his list of potential schools to 10 on Wednesday, and both Missouri and Kansas made the cut. Porter is a five-star recruit and the No. 2 player in the 2017 class, according to Rivals. File photo by T. Rob Brown Special to The Star

As has become the custom, Tolton Catholic small forward Michael Porter Jr. from Columbia trimmed his recruiting list to 10 schools Wednesday via Twitter.

Porter — a five-star recruit and the No. 2 player in the 2017 class, according to Rivals — announced that Missouri and Kansas are still in the running.

Duke, Washington, Stanford, Kentucky, UCLA, Syracuse, Indiana and Virginia also made the final cut.

Porter, a 6-foot-9 high-flyer who plays for Kansas City-based MoKan Elite on the AAU circuit, has drawn comparisons to former NBA MVP Kevin Durant for his wide-ranging skillset.

Porter averaged 28 points per game as a sophomore with Tolton Catholic last season.

He only got two of those points for the following dunk:

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This story was originally published August 5, 2015 at 7:14 PM with the headline "Missouri, Kansas make prized basketball recruit Michael Porter Jr.’s top 10 cut."

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