Is getting top recruit Austin Rivers most critical to Duke, North Carolina or Kansas?
Meyer: I don’t know that getting Rivers is really more critical to any of these three programs. All three have talented perimeter players and would also benefit by landing Rivers. Perhaps it is more critical to Duke in that they have spent the most time and effort recruiting Rivers and have been considered the frontrunner to land him. document.write(insertImage(‘/IMAGES/PROSPECT/PHOTO/AUSTINRIVERS8_11200.JPG’, ”, 0, 267, 200, 1, ‘Austin Rivers is down to three schools with one clear leader.’, ‘Rivals.com’, 1285183227000, ”, 1014, ‘Align=Right’));Bossi: Depends how somebody wants to look at it, really. On one hand, no one recruit has ever made or broken any of those programs. But, this is a highly publicized guy and clearly he’s a very important recruit. Kansas would really like a high level point and they are scrambling a little after losing out on Josiah Turner and Rivers certainly handles well enough to play plenty of point for them. Duke is likely going to need somebody to replace
