SLATE: Well, so much for Julian Phillips

But Jerome Tang has another iron in the fire.Julian Phillips added two schools to his finalist list — Florida State and South Carolina — as well as floating the idea of joining the G-League. But he also made a big subtraction: Kansas State. Phillips cancelled his official visit to Manhattan for reasons unknown, but as Arne Green reports in the Capital-Journal one door closes while another opens.

Dexter Dennis, a senior transfer from Wichita State with one year of eligibility remaining, has stepped into the vacuum. Dennis earlier visited Manhattan as well as Maryland and Georgetown and called the K-State visit the best of the three; Wednesday Dennis listed K-State as a finalist for his final…