Haralson, No. 10 hoops hire for ’25, selects Irish

• Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Personnel Writer Basketball recruiting expert. Signed up with ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware.Paul Biancardi Close Paul Biancardi Basketball Recruiting National Recruiting Director for ESPN.com 18 years of coaching experience at Division I

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• ET Senior Jalen Haralson, the No. 10 recruit in the 2025 ESPN
• 100, announced his dedication to Notre Dame on Wednesday, becoming the Battling

Irish’s highest-ranked hire in the contemporary era.Haralson picked Notre Dame over Indiana and Michigan State, although the recruitment became a two-team race in between the Battling Irish and Hoosiers down the stretch.

Notre Dame extended a scholarship deal weeks after Micah Shrewsberry became the head coach in South Bend, while Indiana was among the first schools to provide the gifted wing.”Notre Dame is the best alternative for me,”Haralson informed ESPN on Wednesday.”This was not a simple choice. Notre Dame hired me given that the day [Shrewsberry]

got the job. They stuck to me through my injury, stuck with his vision for me and it assisted a lot.”Editor’s Picks 2 Related Shrewsberry’s current success with perimeter players was a huge plus in Haralson’s mind.”My supreme goal is to get to the NBA,”Haralson said.”

I rely on Coach Shrewsberry and his personnel with my game. They have had success with players like me. They did a fantastic job with Jalen

Pickett and Seth Lundy at Penn State. He was with the Celtics and helped Jayson Tatum.”A 6-foot-7 small forward from Indiana who goes to La Lumiere School(Indiana), Haralson is thought about the best high school senior in the state.He represented USA Basketball at the FIBA U17 World Cup this summer, balancing 11.1 points and 4.0 rebounds in 7 games as the group won the gold medal. He also averaged 21.2 points and 7.3 rebounds with the Indy Heat on the Nike EYBL circuit last spring, then followed it up with 16.6 points at the Nike Peach Jam in July, consisting of a 29-point efficiency versus No. 1 general possibility A.J. Dybantsa. “Jalen is a versatile playmaker that impacts winning all over the flooring,”La Lumiere coach Pat Holmes stated.”Whether it’s with his scoring, passing or defensive versatility, Jalen is going to do whatever is required to assist a group achieve success.

He has a remarkable work ethic and radiates favorable energy that colleagues gravitate toward.”Haralson becomes the very first top-10 possibility to devote to Notre Dame given that the ESPN recruiting database started in 2007, jumping previous J.J. Starling( No. 19 in 2022)and Demetrius Jackson(No. 24 in 2013). He’s the 2nd ESPN 100 possibility to commit to Notre Dame this week, following a pledge from four-star forward Brady Koehler( No. 98)on Monday.