The coach of star Kentucky recruit DeAndre Liggins expressed confidence in the player’s eventual ability to gain his initial college eligibility while acknowledging that the latest attempt fell short.
Mike Peck, the coach at Findlay Prep in the Las Vegas area, said that Liggins planned to take the SAT on June 7 and the ACT on June 14.
“If he’s going to take it again, obviously we’re not comfortable with how he scored (on testings earlier this spring),” Peck said on Tuesday.
Peck declined to say directly that Liggins would meet the core classes component required for freshman eligibility by the NCAA. But he suggested that only the score on the college entrance exam remained as an academic hurdle.
“He’s going to graduate next week,” Peck said. “We look at it as one thing at a time. He’ll graduate and have a diploma.
“I think he’d going to make it. We can’t forecast anything. We can’t tell the future. . . . I’m confident he’s going to make it.”
Liggins, a 6-foot-6 guard and Chicago native, is a highly regarded perimeter player. He joined Darius Miller of Mason County as the crown jewels of UK’s recruitment in the class of 2008.
Liggins averaged 13.6 points, 5.6 assists, 7.6 rebounds and 1.5 steals this past season.
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Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald- Leader has covered Kentucky basketball since the 1981-82 season. That time includes five coaches, five Final Fours, four athletic directors, two interim athletic directors and many memories. Before coming to Lexington, Tipton worked eight years for the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch. He covered Marshall’s basketball team for two seasons before coming to the Herald-Leader.
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