Markese Jacobs, currently Kansas' lone basketball commit for the 2019 class, didn’t have the high school season he was expecting.
Shortly after transferring to Phoenix Hillcrest Prep in Arizona for his junior season, the 5-foot-9 Chicago native wound up right back at his old high school, Uplift Community.
“The situation wasn’t what it was supposed to be,” Jacobs said. He declined to elaborate further.
Once he returned to Uplift, his coach, David Taylor, didn’t act as if he never left.
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