KU basketball in recruiting battle with OU and others for elite combo guard from OKC
Trey Alexander, a 6-foot-4, 185-pound senior combo guard from Heritage Hall High School in Oklahoma City, has included Kansas on his list of seven schools.
Alexander, the No. 72-ranked player in the recruiting Class of 2021 by Rivals.com, on Tuesday revealed on Twitter a list of KU, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Georgia, Auburn, Mississippi and Grambling State.
He averaged 26.6 points, 9.9 rebounds and 6.0 assists as a junior last season at (20-5) Heritage Hall.
“I have talked to all the top coaches and top programs and I tell them all the same thing: If you get him, you are getting a special guy to play for you and help your program in a major way,” Heritage Hall coach Chris Hamilton told wholehogsports.com. “He is a guy that can turn the program around and he can simply go.
“He is just a great character kid, has a lot of goals and aspirations and if he doesn’t get there, it won’t be because he hasn’t worked hard,” Hamilton added. “Every year he adds an element to his game. He can score at every level with either hand and is a prototype point guard. He has a burning desire to win. He is really self-motivated. He just has to continue to get more muscle on his body. He is a special player.”
“Alexander is a true combo guard, meaning he’s effective as a primary handler/facilitator or playing off the ball as a shooting guard,” wrote Kevin McPherson of nwahomepage.com. “His dribble-drive game to set up fadeaway mid-range jumpers, runners and floaters in the paint, or getting all the way to the rim is as good as there is in the country, and he’s a capable three-point shooter. Alexander is tough and reliable in the clutch as an aggressive on-ball shot-creator, often taking over close games with a finish or an assist.”
ESPN.com has ranked Alexander No. 40 in the Class of 2021.
“He’s a confident and effective three-level scorer,” ESPN.com’s Paul Biancardi said as quoted by Arkansasonline.com. “Alexander has good positional size with scoring ability. One of his best parts of his game is how he can create space with his dribble to get a shot off. With range and accuracy, he is a legitimate long distance shooter behind the arc. Equally impressive is how he finds the open pocket of space for his pull-up jump shot. When he locates a driving lane he will take it in and finish.”
This marks the second straight year KU is recruiting the top player in Oklahoma high school basketball. Bryce Thompson, a 6-4 combo guard out of Tulsa’s Booker T. Washington High School, signed with KU in November of 2019 and is a freshman on the 2020-21 KU team.
