Texas, Georgia, Kansas making big pushes for Dreher’s Mack

The phone of Dreher standout Tevin Mack’s mother has been busy this week as she had conversations with three college basketball coaches who badly want her son.

Paula Mack said she has taken phone calls from Shaka Smart of Texas, Mark Fox of Georgia and Bill Self of Kansas.

“They were all telling me how much they can use him, and how much they need him,” Mack said. “They all want him. All three said how bad they needed him, especially Kansas. He (Self) said he needed a big scoring guard.”

UCLA also contacted Paula Mack on Monday.

The Macks don’t have plans to take visits, though they are considering riding to Georgia. Paula Mack said she looked into airline tickets to Kansas and Texas.

She said there has not been much contact between her and USC recently, and she hasn’t heard much from Clemson.

Tevin Mack’s 18th birthday is Friday, and his mother would like him to make a decision that day, but she said he has given her no indication he’ll be ready by then.

Mack was released from his grant-in-aid at VCU after Smart left there to take the Texas coaching job.

This story was originally published April 29, 2015 at 11:05 PM with the headline "Texas, Georgia, Kansas making big pushes for Dreher’s Mack."