Duke, Hornets star Kon Knueppel’s brother Kager picks up D-I basketball offer from Big Ten originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Kon Knueppel has paved the path for his brothers.
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The former Duke Blue Devils and current Charlotte Hornets star is the oldest of five boys, and he has proven himself first at the Division I level and now as an NBA rookie.
His brothers’ names: Kager, Kinston, Kash, Kidman.
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Kager is up next, and he’s a rising star in the high school ranks at Wisconsin Lutheran.
According to Wisconsin Basketball Yearbrook’s Mark Miller, Kager has picked up a big-time Division I scholarship offer, too: Purdue.
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As Miller notes, Kager is 6-foot-9, already taller than his older brother.
He’s currently a 4-star recruit in the 247 Composite Rankings, 83rd nationally among the Class of 2027.
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Before this, Kager was listed as having scholarship offers from DePaul and Toledo. Kager is actually the nephew of Toledo head coach Tod Kowalczyk.
The offer from Purdue, which spent a portion of this college basketball season ranked No. 1 in the country, could open the floodgates for Kager. It often only takes one powerhouse scholarship offer to bring in a lot of the other big-name programs, too.
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Kager will surely make the most of whatever chance he gets. He’s got a great role model to follow.
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