DeAndre Ayton,
the No. 1 ranked basketball recruit in the class of 2017 , verbally committed to
Arizona on Tuesday night.
Ayton picked the Wildcats over
Kentucky and
Kansas.
Ayton, who attends Hillcrest Prep in Phoenix, made his pledge to Sean Miller's program on ESPN's "SportsCenter." In doing so, Ayton becomes the first top-ranked recruit of Sean Miller's career.
As for Ayton, he's a 7-foot Bahamian big man that has No.-1-overall-in-the-NBA-Draft talent. He's also got an interesting backstory, and really, an ongoing side story. There are still questions from some in college basketball if Ayton will even qualify to play at the NCAA level. Speculation and cynicism over this issue was so prominent,
many schools did not even bother recruiting Ayton, while others, like Kentucky, came late to the table.
