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Top recruit Quade Green spurns Syracuse basketball as he picks Kentucky

(Sean Simmers | PennLive.com)

Philadelphia, Pa. — Quade Green chose the blue of Kentucky over the orange of Syracuse.

Green, a 6-1 senior point guard at Philadelphia's Neumann-Goretti High School, announced on Saturday night that he would go to Kentucky next year. He chose the Wildcats after narrowing his final choices to Kentucky and Syracuse. He had previously considered Duke, Villanova and Temple.

Syracuse offered the five-star point guard in summer 2015 pic.twitter.com/BW25rzs00d

— Matthew Gutierrez (@MatthewGut21) November 20, 2016

Green is the No. 22 player in the country, according to ESPN.