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New UK point guard Davion Mintz says Calipari reaching out was a “dream come true”

When Creighton point guard Davion Mintz announced he would be entering the NCAA transfer portal back on April 3, the 6-foot-3 senior was met with a plethora of phone calls from high-major programs throughout the nation.

He never publicized which schools were actively recruiting him out of respect to those involved, but the options were certainly there.

“It was a very interesting recruiting process, a lot of schools reached out,” Mintz said in an interview with Jamie Shaw on the Absolute Basketball Experience. “For the privacy of me and those schools, I decided to keep it in-home and [quiet].