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Xavier Henry -- Dad says he still might play for Kentucky

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Xavier Henry: nobody knows where he's going.
WhenXavier Henry, one of the top-ranked prospects in basketball, announced he'd be headed to the University of Kansas next year, everyone figured that was that.

But now his father is saying that Henry is still considering playing for Kentucky, meaning that Henry's fate is once again back up in the air.

From an article at USA Today:
Xavier Henry, an incoming college freshman committed to play basketball at Kansas, still is considering playing for the University of Kentucky, his father told a Kansas City radio station today.

In a taped interview that aired on Tuesday's Chris and Cowboy show on 610-AM in Kansas City, Carl Henry said that his son? a top 30 recruit from Oklahoma City who originally signed with John Calipari at Memphis? wanted to follow Calipari to UK before ultimately committing to the Jayhawks.

Because he signed and was released from a national letter of intent at Memphis, Xavier Henry is prohibited from signing a second LOI. That leaves him free to attend another school. He has not enrolled in summer school at Kansas.

Xavier Henry hoped to play for Calipari at Kentucky, Carl Henry said, but chose to commit to Kansas because his mother, Barbara — who is divorced from Carl Henry — wanted to live near her son in college and did not want to move to Lexington.

"If it wasn't for his momma saying that 'I would not go to Kentucky, I would not move down to Kentucky,' Xavier would have been at Kentucky,'" Carl Henry said during the radio interview. "He would have been at Kentucky. So Xavier says, 'I'm going to go to Kansas.' Even though that's what he wanted to do is go to Kentucky, play under Coach Cal. That's what he wanted to do. I expressed this to (Kansas) coach (Bill) Self. I told him."

Now, Carl Henry said, Barbara Henry does not want to be a deciding factor in Xavier's college decision.

"So guess what? Kid might have a change of mind," Carl Henry said. "That's what I tell coach Self. If he has a change of mind, so what? So be it. He has a change of mind."

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