Basketball prospect Terrence Boyd is set to sign with Western Kentucky today, but he’s awaiting word on whether his Scholastic Aptitude Test score will be accepted by the NCAA.

Boyd confirmed Tuesday he will sign with the Hilltoppers when the spring signing period begins today, but also that his academic eligibility is in limbo because of questions regarding his latest SAT score.

“Yeah, I’m qualified - I’m so qualified the NCAA and the Princeton Review are looking into it and thinking somebody took the test for me,” Boyd told the Daily News on Tuesday. “I don’t know why they’re picking on me.”

Boyd denied any wrongdoing. In fact, Boyd said he has yet to be told what his exam score actually is. But he believes he scored well enough to qualify academically, and that the score - whatever it is - triggered the investigation by testing authorities.

Boyd is optimistic the review will turn out well.

“They can do what they do and hopefully it will come out well,” Boyd said. “I think I’ve got them on their toes.”

Western Kentucky had not yet received Boyd’s signed letter of intent by press time today.

It’s another chapter in a difficult two-year saga for Boyd, WKU’s highest-profile recruit in recent memory. The 6-foot-5, 225-pound wingman - who for a time was ranked No. 54 in ESPNU’s Top 100 - is a four-star recruit and a No. 50 prospect in the Rivals 150, even though he hasn’t played high school basketball since his sophomore year.

After his sophomore season at Virginia’s famed Oak Hill Academy, he returned home to Norman, Okla., for his junior year but was ruled ineligible due to residency rules. He then transferred to San Diego High School in California, but was ruled ineligible by the California Interscholastic Federation because the CIF believed he was recruited to the school.

“I can’t wait to get out of high school - high school has not been good to me,” Boyd said Tuesday. “It’s frustrating, but you’re going to get noticed somehow and summer (AAU) ball has been very good to me.”

WKU coach Ken McDonald cannot comment on recruits until they have signed with the Hilltoppers.

Meanwhile, Boyd’s verbal commitment to WKU in February might have had an adverse effect on David Laury, the New Jersey-based power forward who reneged Monday on his verbal commitment to the Hilltoppers and is expected to sign instead with Morehead State.

Laury expressed disappointment on Monday that the Hilltoppers hadn’t kept in enough contact with him since he verbally committed to WKU in December.

“I think he felt somewhat slighted because there was not much contact with WKU since December, so he didn’t know how much they wanted him,” said Vincent Robinson, Laury’s prep coach at the Alif Muhammad Nia School in Newark, N.J. “He said once they (got a commitment from) Terrence Boyd, they basically stopped calling him.”

Meanwhile, the Hilltoppers have several scholarships available. After the transfers Monday of three Hilltoppers, only five returning players will be on scholarship next season. WKU also signed three freshmen- Caden Dickerson, William Green and Jordan Swing - during the early signing period in November.

Guard Jameson Tipping - who was recruited by former WKU Darrin Horn - could receive a scholarship after failing to qualify academically last season.

Even if Tipping earns a scholarship, WKU would still have four available - one of which will presumably go to Boyd.