Hunter Dickinson will not announce his college decision today

“HUNTER DICKINSON HAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE”

Well, not really. The announcement is that there is no announcement, the ‘ole bait and switch from Barstool’s favorite funny guy Marty Mush on the Barstool Roundball Podcast. Dickinson is the show’s co-host alongside former Iowa basketball player Jordan Bohannon and his interesting mustache — they talk about it in detail to open the episode.

Mush hyped up a potential college decision for Dickinson on Monday, then joined KSR to open the day Tuesday to say there was “definitely a chance” the star Michigan transfer would announce his next school later in the day. They scheduled the show for 4 p.m. ET, then moved it to 4:30 p.m. ET to build suspense (and add subscribers). Then they accidentally set the show to private and scheduled it to go live 23 hours away from the original start time.

After some tinkering, they finally got the episode live. And goodness, was it something. The best way to describe how things went is — well, let Marty Mush explain.

“There’s your episode about absolutely nothing, but a decision is coming soon.”

That’s how he closed out the 37-minute episode. Pretty much all you need to know. But hey, we have words to fill, so let’s throw some quotes in here.

“It’s almost a job to try and keep it as close to the chest as possible,” Dickinson said. And it’s a job he’s done extremely well, as no one has any idea where the 7-foot-1 center will be playing his college basketball next season.

A big reason for that? Dickinson himself has no idea where he’s going yet, part of the dilemma here.

“The school Hunter Dickinson will be going to next year is — I’m not sure yet.”

He followed it up by saying — or Mush telling him, rather — that he’ll be announcing his college decision on the Barstool Instagram page at some point in the near future.

“I did tell teams that I was hoping to know today where I was going, but I never said I was gonna announce where I was going,” Dickinson said. “I still don’t know, but I would like to figure it out sooner rather than later because I can’t deal with this anymore. It’s exhausting.”

We agree.

Dickinson later said Kentucky, Kansas, Maryland and Villanova have all been trying “really hard” to earn his commitment, but added that “one has been trying harder than the others.” While he wouldn’t confirm which school that was, he did unofficially announce those were the four schools he is seriously considering moving forward. In short, Georgetown is out — sources tell KSR the Hoyas heard they were no longer being considered Tuesday morning.

Of the remaining finalists, Dickinson is confident he’d thrive at any of the four options.

“I would’ve happily made the decision sooner, but I really am struggling trying to pick a school,” Dickinson said. “The good thing about all this is that all of my options, I feel like if I went there, I would succeed. It’s just trying to figure out which one out of them is the best. The one I’m most comfortable with, stuff like that. I know I’ll succeed at any four of them, it’s just about, ‘Where do I feel most comfortable?'”

That’s all for now. Tough listen, Marty.