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Golden Bear basketball gets verbal commitment from another recruit

Staff
Thursday October 18, 2001

The Cal men’s basketball program received its third oral commitment this week, as Alabama prepster Kennedy Winston said he planned to choose the Bears. 

“They offered me a scholarship and I told them I want to come. As of right now, I’m pretty solid,” Winston said of his choice of Cal following a weekend campus visit. 

Winston, a 6-foot-7 wing player, averaged 25.4 points, 8.6 rebounds and 6.3 assists last season, leading Blount High of Pritchard, Ala., to the state’s 5-A title. He is rated as the nation’s No. 32 prospect by The Sporting News, and is considered to be the top prospect in Alabama. 

Winston joins Modesto Christian’s Richard Midgely and David Paris as oral commitments for the Bears. Recruits cannot officially commit until Nov. 14.