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Kansas basketball lands five-star Bryce Thompson in 2020 recruiting class

This morning, Kansas basketball landed five-star recruit Bryce Thompson, a six-foot-five-inch senior out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Thompson picked between Kansas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and North Carolina.

Landing Thompson is huge for Kansas basketball for more than just the achievement of landing a five-star prospect though.

First, it shows that the Jayhawks can still recruit despite the threat of sanctions by the NCAA. The fact that head coach Bill Self pulled this off at all is pretty remarkable.

Bill Self may have had the inside track to Thompson though.

Back in the late ’90s when Self was a younger coach, he was leading the Tulsa Golden Hurricane basketball team.