The latest update on potential Kansas basketball target Isiaih Mosley | Tale of the Tait

What began as a three-headed monster of potential Kansas switch targets is now down to 1.

Texas Tech’s Kevin McCullar Jr. is coming to Kansas if he pulls out of the draft. Former Iowa State level guard Tyrese Hunter is headed to Texas. And Missouri State guard Isiaih Mosley reportedly — per CBS school hoops analyst Jon Rothstein — has withdrawn his identify from the draft pool and is planning to play in school subsequent season.

That’s a reasonably good improve from the times of the Joe Cremo offseason goals. Mosley is ranked because the third-best switch portal prospect this offseason by 247 Sports activities.

Whereas it’s been fairly quiet for the previous couple of weeks, Mosley’s scenario is certainly nonetheless value watching. It seems that Mississippi State is closely concerned with Mosley, as nicely, however there completely has been mutual curiosity between him and Kansas.

It’s potential that Mosley, who stands 6-foot-5 senior and was a two-time first staff all-Missouri Valley Convention choice throughout his time at Missouri State, is ready to decide till after KU’s Jalen Wilson makes his.

Keep in mind, Wednesday’s deadline is just about withdrawing from the NBA draft pool so as to retain eligibility. Gamers within the switch portal shouldn’t have to announce or determine the place they’re heading subsequent by then.

Mosley ready for Wilson makes a number of sense. To begin with, KU doesn’t at the moment have a scholarship obtainable and solely would if Wilson — or another person — have been to depart. Exhausting to choose a spot that doesn’t precisely have a spot for you in the mean time.

Past that, Mosley would know slightly bit extra about his position by studying about Wilson’s future plans. In brief, it might probably be fairly huge.

If Wilson leaves, Invoice Self’s squad shall be trying to substitute 91% of its scoring from final season’s nationwide title staff. Doing that with a man who averaged 20 a recreation final yr might make that slightly simpler.

Even when Wilson returns, KU nonetheless can be trying to substitute 78% of its scoring from final season. These numbers, together with a number of different elements, make it clear that subsequent yr’s KU staff goes to look dramatically completely different than the one which gained the 2022 nationwide title.

The query is, will Mosley be part of that new-look roster?

There are different advantages to including Mosley to the roster if Wilson have been to depart. Along with his 20.4-point scoring common, he additionally averaged 6.2 rebounds and a couple of.3 assists per recreation final season whereas capturing 50% from the ground, 40% from 3-point vary and 90% from the free throw line.

Mosley performed highschool basketball with KU level guard Dajuan Harris Jr. at Rock Bridge in Columbia, Missouri, and was additionally a MoKan teammate of Harris and Christian Braun’s. We all know Braun is gone, however giving Harris a buddy — and, actually, they’re extra like brothers — to run with once more may very well be big for his continued improvement.

In keeping with Rivals.com, coaches from Kansas, Duke, Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Mississippi State, Louisville, Florida and others reached out to Mosley shortly after he entered the portal.

So it’s not as if he doesn’t have choices. However his relative and up to date silence on the matter, his tight connection to Harris and the truth that he pulled his identify out of the draft whereas Wilson remains to be deciding whether or not to yank his all level to KU no less than being a think about his course of.

Wilson has till 10:59 p.m. central on Wednesday to formally take away his identify from the draft pool so as to retain his school eligibility.

It’s value noting that the deadline is for Wilson to inform the NCAA not for him to announce it publicly. It appears seemingly that he’ll just do that — someway — but when we don’t hear something by 10:59 p.m. on Wednesday doesn’t imply Wilson’s staying in or returning. So long as he adopted the correct protocol and notified the proper folks, the announcement a part of it’s type of irrelevant.

Now we wait.