Josiah James, the 6-5 point guard out of Columbia, South Carolina, has cut his list to nine: Duke, Clemson, South Carolina, Arizona, Florida State, Michigan State, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
With four ACC teams in his final nine, the conference has a reasonable shot at someone picking him up. But clearly, South Carolina has the home town advantage.
That doesn’t always work though: Duke got Jeff Mullins and later Vince Taylor out of Lexington, Kentucky.