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Menifield Reveals 6 Schools He's Considering, UW Included

The former Husky guard entered the transfer portal last week.

Dan Raley

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Keyon Menifield Jr., clearly a much more desired college basketball recruit the second time around, on Sunday revealed his six choices while he uses the transfer portal to his benefit. 

He narrowed his list of suitors to Alabama, Arkansas, Louisville, Ohio State, Tennessee and, the school he just walked away from, Washington.

As a freshman for the Huskies, the slender 6-foot-1 guard from Flint, Michigan, was an ultra quick and exciting player who started 21 times, averaged 10 points per game and earned All-Pac-12 Freshman Team recognition.

Last week, Menifield entered the portal and had no trouble finding big-name schools interested in his talents after all except the Huskies had passed on him coming out of high school.

With the Huskies finishing 16-16 and coach Mike Hopkins keeping his job for another season but still very much on the hot seat, Menifield can't be faulted for shopping himself around.

The fact he still holds the UW among his basketball possibilities going forward is a little surprising. Yet it could be his way of thanking the Huskies for previously pursuing him when no one else did.

Menifield is one of six Hopkins players believed to have entered the transfer portal since the Huskies' season concluded. 

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Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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