May 2 – Khalif Battle has shown enough interest in Gonzaga to travel across the country for an official campus visit this week.
Now, Mark Few’s program is one of three schools in contention to land a commitment for the high-scoring Arkansas transfer.
Along with Gonzaga, Battle will focus on Villanova and Kansas State as he moves forward in his recruiting process, the guard told Joe Tipton about On3.com Thursday afternoon.
The Spokesman-Review learned Wednesday that Battle was scheduled to visit Gonzaga and national basketball reporter Adam Zagoria, who runs ZagsBlog.com — a website not affiliated with GU — later reported that the guard was scheduled to be on campus Thursday.
Gonzaga is likely to be Battle’s last visit to the school before announcing a commitment, considering he traveled to visit his other two finalists.
A native of Hillsdale, New Jersey, Battle will be attending his fourth school in his sixth collegiate season in 2024-25. The 6-foot-1 point guard began his career at Butler and spent just one season with the Bulldogs before transferring to Temple, where he played in 45 total games over three years and averaged 17.9 points as a junior.
Battle started 13 of 32 games for Arkansas last season, but became the Razorbacks’ leading scorer late in the year when he averaged 29.6 points in his final seven games, including a three-game SEC stretch when he totaled 112 points against Missouri. , Vanderbilt and Kentucky.
The veteran guard, who scored 1,334 career points in 101 games, entered the transfer portal shortly after Arkansas coach Eric Musselman left to take the job at Southern California.
