Duke basketball (Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports)
Don’t count out Kentucky basketball in one Duke basketball recruiting race.
They were late to the game, delivering an offer to Paul VI (Va.) shooting guard Trevor Keels in mid-February, more than a year after the five-star’s three active suitors. That said, the Kentucky basketball coaches remain a threat to their Duke basketball counterparts — plus Villanova and Virginia — as the recruiting rivals enter the last month or two of the high-profile chase.
At least that’s what three Rivals recruiting insiders implied this week in a roundtable gathering when discussing Keels, a 6-foot-5, 210-pound noted sharpshooter and multifaceted job-doer who sits No.