{"id":1003,"date":"2023-01-21T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2023-01-21T03:53:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T08:53:05","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-jeremy-fears-is-officially-a-5-star-pg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball: Jeremy Fears is officially a 5-star PG"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Michigan State basketball signee Jeremy Fears has long been on the rise in the recruiting ranks and he finally got his fifth star.<\/h2>\n<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"http:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-good-bad-ugly-rutgers\/\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> had one five-star prospect in its 2023 recruiting class. On Friday, it had two.<\/p>\n<p>After a recent ESPN recruiting rankings update, Jeremy Fears was granted a fifth star on the 247Sports composite, joining Xavier Booker as the other five-star in the Spartans&#8217; 2023 class.<\/p>\n<p>Fears went from the No. 29 overall composite recruit to No. 24 on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>He is now officially a five-star prospect.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as no surprise to people who have seen him play and rise considerably over the past 5-6 months. He went from the No. 45 recruit in the country in June all the way up to No. 24 in the class on Friday. A 21-spot rise in about seven months is unheard of and it feels like he may be even better than that No. 24 ranking.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeremy &amp; Jeremiah Fears highlights vs St. Rita at the Tournament of Champions! #shorts #basketball\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/asFp9JGLSVA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The biggest concern for Fears heading into his final year of high school ball at Joliet (Ill.) West was his shooting. He&#8217;s clearly worked on that because it&#8217;s improved drastically and not only is he a willing shooter, but he&#8217;s now a capable one.<\/p>\n<p>Excitement is building around the young point guard from Illinois as Michigan State basketball could go from Cassius Winston to AJ Hoggard and Tyson Walker to Fears. That&#8217;s a heck of a transition.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Izzo has to feel incredibly lucky to reel in elite point guard after elite point guard in East Lansing.<\/p>\n<p>With the recent rise in the composite, Fears is now the No. 5 point guard in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s not the only Spartan recruit to rise in the latest composite as Coen Carr jumped six spots from No. 58 to No. 52. Booker dropped just one spot from No. 7 to No. 8 while Gehrig Normand went from No. 68 down to No. 102 in the composite.<\/p>\n<p>This is Izzo&#8217;s first class with two five-stars since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Fears got his fifth star on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[59,245,190,189],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bb-recruiting","tag-featured","tag-jeremy-fears","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}