E.J. Liddell is the Missouri basketball program’s most-coveted class of 2019 recruit, and as the summer basketball season winds down, competition for the 6-foot-7 forward appears to be ramping up.
Liddell, a versatile shot blocker who already has 15 scholarship offers, is now garnering new interest from Wisconsin, Indiana and Duke. Though none of those three have offered Liddell a scholarship yet, he said he’s spoken to legendary Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski on the phone “a couple of times,” and Coach K has told the Belleville, Ill., forward that the improvement he’s shown in the past year has been impressive.