Cade Cunningham postpones Kentucky visit, reschedules for early November

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2020 top-five prospect Cade Cunningham has rescheduled his official visit to Kentucky.

Originally scheduled to visit for Big Blue Madness on the weekend of October 11, the No. 2 prospect in the class of 2020 will now take his trip to Lexington “sometime in early November,” per Jason Jordan of USA Today.

According to the report, the visit had to be rescheduled due to the USA Basketball Junior Minicamp being scheduled the same weekend.

Cade Cunningham will now visit Kentucky "sometime in early November." Rescheduled to attend the USA Basketball Junior Minicamp.

— Jason Jordan (@JasonJordanSI) October 1, 2019

Back in August, Cunningham cut his list to five schools, with Kentucky, Oklahoma State, North Carolina, Florida, and Washington remaining in contention.

After Oklahoma State hired Cannen Cunningham, Cade’s brother, to their coaching staff back in June, the Cowboys instantly became the perceived runaway favorites in the 6-foot-6 guard’s recruitment.

At the time, though, Cunningham told Evan Daniels of 247Sports that all the pro-Cowboy rumblings were false and that his recruitment was still “very open.”

“I don’t think it does [matter to me], very much,” Cunningham said. “I’m still very open to everybody. A lot of people feel like I’m going to announce my commitment soon or something, and that’s not the case. Obviously, I wanted my brother to take the job, it’s an incredible opportunity for him.”

Outside of Oklahoma State, Kentucky has always been rumored to be one of Cunningham’s top schools. And at the Pangos All-American Camp this summer, he confirmed as much to KSR.

“[Kentucky] is the first team I remember [growing up],” Cunningham told KSR this summer. “Coach Cal is great. It’s hard not to take a look at that track record and take them seriously.”

After cutting his list, the five-star prospect also told Corey Evans of Rivals.com that he appreciates Kentucky’s status as an established blue blood.

“That is a big, prestigious school,” he said. “They put out a ton of top pros and they win.”

In the same interview, Cunningham told Evans that a decision will come by the early signing period in November.

“I want to sign by the early signing period,” he said. “I want to be done with it by then and take all of my visits before then,” he stated. “No visits are lined up yet. I am going to talk to my five schools and figure it out.”

As of right now, Oklahoma State and North Carolina are seen as options 1A and 1B in Cunningham’s recruitment, with Kentucky circling as a darkhorse candidate not far behind. UK head coach John Calipari visited the five-star guard on the very first day of the fall recruiting period on September 9, and then followed it up with another trip to see Cunningham’s family in Texas for an in-home visit just a week later.

With Jalen Green and Josh Christopher no longer being pursued in the class of 2020, Cunningham, along with potential reclassification target Devin Askew, remain as Kentucky’s top options at the guard position.

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