In this photo taken in Chicago, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, Jabari Parker dunks the ball during the City basketball Championship game against Proviso East.
Charles Rex Arbogast, ASSOCIATED PRESS
In the for-what-it's-worth department, comes this outside opinion on prep basketball sensation Jabari Parker: He's not going to BYU.
That doesn't mean much at this early stage. Nevertheless, zagsblog.com spoke with Roy Schmidt, editor of Illinois Prep Bulls-Eye and Parker family acquaintance. Schmidt believes Parker's final three picks are Duke, Kentucky and Michigan State.
BYU has been named among Parker's 10 finalists.
Read more about Schmidt: Three Schools Have Shot at Jabari Parker on Zags Blog.
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Naval vet,
As much as MSU wants to be a football school...they are a basketball school. MSU is only 3 hours from Chicago so I'm sure that played into it.
Once bYu fans get wind that Jabari rejected their school they'll More..
Most BYU fans don't think there is any chance that Parker would go to BYU. Sure, there's a few that do, but why would their disappointment be treated differently than fans of other schools.
I'm shocked that no school was mentioned from that basketball power conference - Pac-12.