Springfield News-Leader · Apr 28, 2016
Kickapoo's Jared Ridder picked up two big-time Division I offers
Buy PhotoAn offer from the Big East could fire up recruiting interest in Kickapoo basketball standout Jared Ridder.
The 6-foot-7 forward went to Twitter to tell the world he received a basketball scholarship offer from Xavier University, the third NCAA Division I program to make Ridder an offer in the past 10 days.
The Xavier Musketeers went 28-6, finished second in the Big East to Villanova and reached the second round of the 2016 NCAA Tournament this past season.
Had a great talk with coach Mack and I'm honored to say I've received an offer from Xavier University!#GoMusketeers\ud83c\udfc0 pic.twitter.com/UFCPOeov57