RECRUITING REPORT

Malik Newman will visit Ole Miss on Oct. 4

Courtney Cronin
The Clarion-Ledger
Callaway's Malik Newman is the Clarion-Ledger's player of the year.

The nation's top-ranked guard will be in attendance for Ole Miss' Oct. 4 game against Alabama.

Callaway's Malik Newman is listed among 53 players on the USA Basketball Men's Junior National Team roster for a mini camp in Colorado Springs Oct. 4-5 but will take an unofficial visit to Oxford instead.

The five-star combo guard plans to release his Top-5 before the start of his senior season and will take his first official visit set to Texas A&M on Oct. 11 for the Aggies home game against Ole Miss.

Newman recently had in-home visits with coaches from Kansas, Kentucky and N.C. State. Saturday will be his college football game at Vaught Hemingway Stadium.

The reigning Clarion-Ledger Mr. Basketball holds offers from nearly every college basketball power including Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, North Carolina, Texas A&M, UConn, among others.