CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- When Kodye Pugh elected to transfer from Boys' Latin in Baltimore to Blair Academy in New Jersey several weeks ago, he also chose to reclassify from the 2016 class to the 2017 class as well.

The plan, he said, was to use the extra year to get bigger and more ready for college basketball.

"Taking an extra year will help me get stronger, it will help me build my body," Pugh said. "And playing against high competition will get me ready for that level, unlike if I stayed in 2016."

The thing is, the way Pugh played this week at the Under Armour All-America Camp Powered by Rivals.com, he may just be ready for college hoops earlier than he anticipated.

The 6-foot-7, 185-pound wing piled up 23 points and four rebounds in the morning game of Friday's final camp day, playing against one of the better teams in the event. Pugh said afterward that if that kind of improvement continues, he may just end up back in the 2016 class after all.

"I'm definitely keeping 2016 an option," Pugh said. "I'm not closing that out right away."

Still, for now, he remains in the 2017 class, and he remains a top target for some of the top colleges in the country. Programs like Georgetown, Princeton, Northwestern, George Washington, South Carolina and Georgia Tech have all offered. Maryland could be close too.

Yet Pugh, who now has nearly two years to pick a program, is in no hurry at all to narrow down a list.

"There's a lot of schools that are recruiting me hard right now," Pugh said. "There's not really a forerunner right now. It's pretty evened out."

Pugh has visited plenty of colleges in the past year or two, including nearly every school that has offered. When he goes to pick some favorites from those trips and those offers, he said academics, team chemistry and social life will all be big factors.

Until then, though, he insists he's open to every school that will show him interest.

"Wide open," Pugh said. "I'm wide open."

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