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Henry sticking with decision to play for Kansas
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| Xavier Henry confirmed that he will play for Kansas next season. (Doug Benc / Getty Images) |
"I'm going to Kansas," Henry texted to FOXSports.com late Tuesday night. "That's final."
The news came after a crazy day in which Henry's father, Carl, told KCSP 610 Sports Radio in Kansas City earlier on Tuesday that his son was considering playing at Kentucky and that the family would meet on Tuesday night.
According to sources, Kansas coach Bill Self flew to Oklahoma City and met with the family on Tuesday night.
"If it wasn't for his mom saying, 'I would not go to Kentucky, I would not move down to Kentucky,' Xavier would have been at Kentucky,'" Henry said during the radio interview. "He would have been at Kentucky. So Xavier says, 'I'm going to go to Kansas,' even though ... what he wanted to do is go to Kentucky, play under Coach Cal. That's what he wanted to do. I expressed this to Coach Self. I told him."
Henry, considered one of the elite players in the incoming freshman class, initially signed with Memphis prior to coach John Calipari leaving for Kentucky and then chose Kansas over Kentucky after being released from his letter-of-intent.
Henry would have been allowed to go to another school since a player is only allowed to sign one letter-of-intent, and while he did sign papers, they are not binding — and Henry is not enrolled in summer school at Kansas.
With Henry in the fold, Kansas will likely be the consensus No. 1 team in the country entering the 2009-10 season. If he had switched allegiances to Kentucky, the Wildcats likely would have begun in the top spot.
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