NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C.—To hear James Wiseman himself tell it, the path of his near future is less like the proverbial fork in the road and more like an actual dining fork. Maybe even two of them, actually, with eight prongs in all.
On Thursday afternoon, 10 days after tweeting that he would soon announce which eight colleges he is most considering attending, the 7-foot 17-year-old—who is the nation’s consensus No. 1 Class of 2019 recruit—repeated the message, saying he planned to release a list that size after the Peach Jam tournament being played here finishes this weekend. And he insisted that persistent reports of a much smaller competition for his services are not accurate.