Post by Administrator on Jul 7, 2002 5:20:49 GMT -5
Kentucky basketball's hiring of Scott Rigot could pay a quick recruiting dividend.
Rigot, who has been an assistant at Hawaii the last three years, might have the inside track on the Rainbow State's reigning high school player of the year.
That player, point guard Derrick Low, said he spoke to Rigot before leaving Honolulu to compete in the Nike All-America Camp here this week.
"I just talked to him before I left to congratulate him (on getting the UK job) because my dad knows him," Low said yesterday.
Low was named Hawaii's State Player of the Year as a sophomore for Iolani High in Honolulu. He averaged 16 points and scored 33 in the state championship game. The Prep Stars recruiting service did not list Low among the nation's top 30 juniors-to-be but included him in its next 40 "best of the rest" category.
Rigot, who has been an assistant at Hawaii the last three years, might have the inside track on the Rainbow State's reigning high school player of the year.
That player, point guard Derrick Low, said he spoke to Rigot before leaving Honolulu to compete in the Nike All-America Camp here this week.
"I just talked to him before I left to congratulate him (on getting the UK job) because my dad knows him," Low said yesterday.
Low was named Hawaii's State Player of the Year as a sophomore for Iolani High in Honolulu. He averaged 16 points and scored 33 in the state championship game. The Prep Stars recruiting service did not list Low among the nation's top 30 juniors-to-be but included him in its next 40 "best of the rest" category.
