2024 men’s college basketball recruiting rankings: Last top 25 classes
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Jeff Borzello, ESPN
- Staff WriterJun 13, 2024, 09:08 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider.
- Signed up with ESPN in 2014.
- Graduate of University of Delaware.With lineup motion
for the 2024-25 college basketball season finally settling down, coaches around the nation are looking at the 2025, 2026 and 2027 classes. But before we fully close the book on this year’s senior class, let’s make one more upgrade to the 2024 recruiting class rankings. There’s been lots of motion because January, with a half-dozen top-25 potential customers selecting schools. Here were the most significant stories: Effect of coaching modifications: Before April, Kentucky had the No. 2 recruiting class in the nation and Arkansas had a pair of top-60 employees to keep them in the top 25. 2 months later on, the Razorbacks find themselves at No. 9 and Kentucky is no place to be discovered. That’s the impact of John Calipari’s move from Lexington to Fayetteville. 3 of Calipari’s Kentucky hires followed him to Arkansas, while one stayed behind to play under Mark Pope. Both of Arkansas’recruits followed Eric Musselman to USC.Arizona State’s rise: Bobby Hurley and the Sun Devils originated from out of no place to end up with the No. 6 recruiting class in the country. They were in fact No. 15 back in January, however 4 of their five commitments at the time are no longer even in the fold. Hurley landed five-star Jayden Quaintance and then turned Joson Sanon from Arizona. There’s a lot of skill on the lineup in Tempe.Editor’s Picks 2 Associated UConn’s reload: Dan Hurley has been the talk of the basketball world over the recently, today we know he’s going to be completing for back-to-back-to-back championship games next season. The key to his lineup retooling in the spring was top-10 prospect Liam McNeeley, who had actually decommitted from Indiana in March. McNeeley is an elite shot-maker who will play an essential function in the Huskies’offense immediately.Is there anyone left?: While the 2024 class looked practically ended up toward the end of May, two noteworthy players went back on the board. Kanon Catchings(No. 35) got his release from Purdue, while Arizona State
promise Sammie Yeanay(No. 90)reopened his recruitment. 1. Duke Blue Devils