Blake Hinson can’t recite the pitch that convinced him to move halfway across the continent.
It was late July. Sunrise Christian Academy, a small Christian school and burgeoning basketball power, wanted to import some scoring punch. And the program, one plopped on the Kansas plains, pitched the former two-sport star on transforming his body to match his game.
But in Hinson’s retelling, it’s a matter-of-fact tale.
“Sunrise called,” Hinson said, “so I went.”
Eight months later, the 6-foot-7, 200-pound combo forward is entering the home stretch of his recruitment, mulling offers from Ole Miss, Seton Hall, Washington State and Missouri, which hosted him for an official visit on Monday and Tuesday.