Billy Preston, a 6-foot-9, 240-pound senior forward from Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Va., who is ranked No. 8 in the recruiting Class of 2017 by Rivals.com, on Friday announced he’d be playing basketball at Kansas.
He chose KU over Southern California, Indiana and Syracuse.
Preston, who averaged 17.1 points and 8.2 rebounds a game last season at Advanced Prep International in Dallas and 13.7 points and 7.7 rebounds per game during the Nike EYBL circuit last summer, visited KU for the Oct. 1 Late Night in the Phog.
“Next year I’ll be attending the University of Kansas,” Preston said on ESPNU, placing a Jayhawks hat on his head Friday afternoon while seated in an ESPN studio wearing a gray shirt with bow tie and fashionable glasses.