WKU Recruiting Notebook: Toppers Welcome Visitors To Diddle

On Wednesday, when the Tops welcomed Kentucky Wesleyan to Diddle Arena, a few more visitors were also in the building.

On Wednesday, when the Tops welcomed Kentucky Wesleyan to Diddle Arena, a few more visitors were also in the building.

One visitor was reportedly planning on being in house (I’ve not seen word on if he, in fact, was there) and two guys who would be WKU’s extreme future plans were all in Diddle. Lets break that and more down in our first ever recruiting notebook.

— Before the game on Wednesday, Chad Bishop noted that 2019 prospect Dekeyvan Tandy was expected to be in the house. Tandy is listed as the #2 prospect in Kentucky for the ’19 class and is a three-star athlete, according to 247Sports.

If he chooses WKU, that’d be one heck of a point guard pipeline Stansbury is starting: Josh Anderson, Taveion Hollingsworth and Jake Ohmer would all be upperclassmen by the time Tandy hits the Hill, and that’s a pretty solid looking foursome at the position.

The Tops have some stiff competition for Tandy — Florida, Kentucky and Oklahoma are just some of the schools who have expressed interest. (For what it’s worth, 247 crystal-balls him to OU.)

— One of the more surprising visits of the week was a pair of middle schoolers in Brady Dingess and Q’Daryius McHenry

With these guys being middle schoolers, I wont touch on much, but just a couple of hits: Again, more point guards. Imagine in five years the Tops rolling out a lineup of five ball handlers who can shoot and pass. Truly a new era of college hoops.

Also, if Dingess really is the #1 point man in the state, it’s huge the Tops are showing this much interest in him so early. Maybe that’ll help build this relationship and he’ll strongly consider the Tops when the time comes.

A brief notebook today, but this will be the first of, hopefully, many, across all different sports (remember that one-time WKU football notebook? Yeah, we’re working on that) but the one thing that’s never dull for WKU basketball is that of the recruiting trail.