Breaking down R.J. Barrett's top five schools

Posted Aug 21, 2017
Canadian R.J. Barrett, the 247Sports No. 1 recruit in the class of 2018, announced his top-five schools on Wednesday. Duke, Arizona, Michigan, Oregon and Kentucky are all still in the running, most notably cutting Kansas and UCLA from the list. Barrett said on Twitter that he plans to visit each of the five schools one last time, but that he hasn’t set up those trips yet. (Sporting News)

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