Another top prep to visit Late Night

LeBryan Nash, the No. 4-rated basketball prospect in the Class of 2011, will attend Kansas University’s Oct. 15 Late Night in the Phog as part of an official recruiting visit.

Nash, a 6-foot-7, 225-pound senior small forward from Dallas’ Lincoln High, recently made an unofficial visit to Oklahoma State with his mother and his Dallas Mustangs AAU coach, Tony Johnson. Nash has yet to schedule an official visit to OSU. He’ll visit his other finalist, Baylor, on Sept. 10-11.

“Kansas is a serious option for me and a school I’m seriously considering,” Nash told Rivals.com on Sunday in announcing his plan to visit KU officially.

Oklahoma State is considered the team to beat for Nash, the half brother of former OSU point guard Byron Eaton.

Nash told Oklahomastate.rivals.com that his recent visit to Stillwater rated a “10 (out of 10). It was awesome,” he said.

“She loved the visit,” he added of his mom. “She loved how they talked to me about education. That’s the part she was looking at, the education part, and how they’re going to make me a better student. She really don’t care about the game because she knows I’m going to take care of the game.”

KU will have several top senior prospects in for Late Night. They are: No. 10-ranked Josiah Turner, a 6-3 point guard from Sacramento (Calif.) High and No. 76-rated Angelo Chol, a 6-8 senior center from San Diego’s Hoover High. No. 17 Ben McLemore, a 6-5 senior combo guard from Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Va., has said he’d like to visit Late Night. However, he has just arrived at Oak Hill Academy and has not settled on a final list of schools.

Juniors who have said they’ll be at Late Night: No. 84-rated Zach Peters, a 6-9 center from Prestonwood Academy in Plano, Texas, who has committed to KU; No. 29 Marcus Paige, 6-foot point guard from Linn Marr Community School in Marion, Iowa; and No. 38-rated Nino Jackson, 6-2 shooting guard from Ardmore (Okla.) High. Sophomore Travis Jorgenson, 5-10 from Rock Bridge High in Columbia, Mo., also will be at Late Night.

Kentucky ticket controversy: There’s some controversy at the University of Kentucky over a required increase in donations to obtain seats in Rupp Arena for the 2010-11 hoops season. The Lexington Herald-Leader on Sunday reported the displeasure of former UK All-American Frank Ramsey, who learned his K Fund donation required to reserve his second-row seats would increase from $1,350 to $5,000 per ticket.

“Is this a misprint or what?” he told the paper of his first reaction.

Ramsey, one of six individuals with UK ties to be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, said he would give up those second-row seats.

“It’s not what everybody else has done. It’s what Kentucky is doing,” Ramsey said, told by the Herald-Leader that UK has provided media data indicating the ticket pricing is similar to what other top programs charge. “With the way the economy is, I just feel for people.”

The 79-year-old Ramsey had had second-row seats since 1976, when Rupp first opened.