Huge Blue Insanity is at all times one of many high recruiting occasions yearly for the Kentucky Wildcats, and we’ve bought one other big-time customer confirmed for this yr’s occasion.
In response to @HSTopRecruiting, 5-star ahead Tounde Yessoufou will take an official go to to Kentucky for Huge Blue Insanity. KSR’s Jacob Poloacheck and our personal Chris Beasmore have confirmed the information.
A 6-foot-5, 211-pound massive man out of California, Yessoufou performs for St. Joseph Excessive Faculty in Santa Maria. He’s at present ranked twentieth total and sixth amongst energy forwards by 247 Sports activities Composite within the class of 2025.
Again in July, Yessoufou launched his high 10, which featured Kentucky, UConn, Kansas, Baylor, Tennessee, and UCLA, amongst others. He’s already made official visits to USC, Arizona, and Washington, that are additionally amongst his finalists. He’s formally visiting Tennessee on September 14th.
There was a time when Yessoufou was a reclass candidate for 2024, however he opted to remain in 2025 in hopes of changing into a McDonald’s All-American.
Yessoufou, who’s a local of the West African nation of Benin, says he’s loved being recruited by new Kentucky head coach Mark Pope.
“My relationship has been actually good with Kentucky,” Yessoufou instructed On3’s Joe Tipton in July. “Mark Pope, each time he involves my apply, he’s a humorous man. He tells me to maintain going and to play exhausting. His vitality is exclusive, he’s the kind of coach that may push you exhausting to develop your self each on and off the courtroom. His message to me is that he desires me to play for him as a result of I’m an excellent particular person and the way exhausting I play. He says he enjoys watching me play each time. He at all times provides me recommendation to remain mentally robust on the market, even when issues don’t go my approach, to stay to the plan and transfer on to the following play. It actually issues to me {that a} coach can inform me what I want to listen to, the reality.”
For what it’s value, On3’s Jamie Shaw not too long ago predicted Yessoufou to remain near residence and play for USC. This will probably be a recruitment the place new Kentucky assistant Jason Hart will play a big position in along with his ties to the West Coast.
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