Cade Cunningham Updates Recruiting Process
It seems like we just can't get enough Cade Cunningham updates in our lives. For those who might not know, Cade Cunningham is the No. 2 overall prospect and the No. 1 overall combo guard in the 2020 class. He's also the younger brother of Oklahoma State assistant Cannen Cunningham.
Over the past few days, there have been a couple of articles released detailing his recruiting process, as well as his official visits up to this point. One is by Corey Evans of Rivals and the other by Cunningham himself through USA Today.
Cunningham was in Stillwater a few weeks ago the weekend of OSU's home-opener against McNeese for his official visit. There are some concerns over the fact that OSU was his first visit of five, but it appears that he had a great time.
"I didn't know what to expect," Cunningham told Rivals. "I didn't know if it was going to be a super-small, chill place, or if it was going to be huge. I think it was a happy medium between those two, which I like. It was a place that know that I could go there and focus on my game and have all my family around there to work with. We already speak the same basketball language, so to have everybody around would be good but, at the same time I really like the staff and I like what they are doing there. I really liked the visit and what I saw."
For many people, the biggest competition Oklahoma State has in landing Cunningham is North Carolina. The Cowboys still a majority of the 247Sports Crystal Ball votes for Cunningham, but there's never a guarantee in recruiting.
"The biggest thing that surprised me was the atmosphere," Cunningham said of North Carolina. "Even with the football team, the fans are so North Carolina, no matter what it is; women's soccer, just everything. I really liked that.
"Obviously, the basketball side, coach Roy Williams, he is a great coach. Even stepping into the gym, it was kind of surreal for me. Even now, I don't know why, but I still think that I am this guy that nobody knows and that I am not supposed to be in these gyms. Even with Oklahoma State, it was like, 'Oh my gosh!'
"It was great vibes the whole time and fell like those are two places that I could see myself succeeding and I don't think that I could go wrong at either place."
Cunningham will still be taking his official visit to Florida this weekend, but he's rescheduled his Kentucky visit to early November so he can participate in USA Basketball. So he'll head to Washington after USA Basketball and he'll wrap up his visits with Kentucky.
