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Gregory lost recruiting battle but wishes Pullen well
Brian Gregory may still remember the disappointment of losing super recruit Jacob Pullen to Kansas State, but the Dayton coach has no bitterness toward the point guard.
Pullen seemed destined to end up with UD in the 2007 class with Chris Wright and Devin Searcy — his high school coach told me at one point in the recruiting process that Pullen would be committing within a couple of days — but Bob Huggins got the K-State job, swooped in and coaxed a commitment out of Pullen going into his senior year without the player ever having even visited the campus.
The irony is Huggins was gone before Pullen arrived.
“You recruit only good kids, so you hope for only good things for him,” Gregory said.
“One thing you do, though, is you tend to keep track of them when they move on.”
Pullen is a speedy left-hander who can shoot with range (he would have been a nice fit for UD, in other words). He averaged 13.9 points, second on the team, in the Big 12 as a sophomore last year. And the three-year starter was first in steals (1.8) and second in assists (3.4).
The Wildcats play in the first round of the Puerto Rico Tip-off Classic against Boston University at 7:30 p.m. today. K-State and UD are in opposite brackets, and there’s a 25 percent chance they’ll meet in the final game of the tourney Sunday.
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By Mike
November 19, 2009 1:57 PM | Link to this
Jerome Randle is on the cover of ESPN right now too. He would have sure fit in well with this group. Close but no cigar.