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Jarrod Uthoff gets offer from McCaffery, Hawkeyes
Jun. 15, 2010 7:34 am
Jarrod Uthoff said he hopes to have his final list of college candidates whittled to the three-to-five range by the end of this month. He got one more school to consider last weekend.
The Cedar Rapids Jefferson junior basketball player said the University of Iowa has officially offered him a scholarship. It's the 11th offer for the 6-foot-8 forward.
“I talked to Coach (Fran) McCaffery this weekend and took a tour of the campus,” Uthoff said. “After we were done, he just said ‘Well, we'd love to have you be a Hawkeye.'
“Pretty awesome. It's only 45 minutes from my house.”
Uthoff's other official offers are from Albany, Arizona State, Butler, Creighton, Illinois, Indiana, Indiana State, Iowa State, Northern Iowa and Wisconsin. He said he hopes to make a commitment by mid-July.
“It's still pretty crazy,” he said.
Cedar Rapids Jefferson High School junior forward Jarrod Uthoff puts up a shot during an open gym scrimmage practice at Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids on Monday, April 19, 2010, as he is watched by Jefferson coach Stuart Ordman (from left), Iowa State assistant coach Jeff Rutter, Creighton assistant coach Darian Devries, and Butler assistant coach Matthew Graves. Other recruiters in attendance included Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery and Notre Dame assistant coach Martin Ingelsby. (Julie Koehn/The Gazette)
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