Playing alongside a point guard who complements his game is a priority for 2019 power forward Matthew Hurt in choosing his college destination. The father of the five-star Duke basketball target confirmed that.
“If you’re a guy that doesn’t have the ball in your hands a lot, you want to know who’s going to be facilitating for you,” Richard Hurt said, as reported by Kentucky.com’s Ben Roberts, the week of the McDonald’s All-American Game, in which his son started and scored eight points, well below his 37-per-game clip as a senior on his way to becoming Minnesota’s all-time leading scorer (3,819) among big-school players.