{"id":12296,"date":"2024-01-19T10:15:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T15:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=12296"},"modified":"2024-01-19T03:35:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T08:35:07","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-makes-top-3-for-5-star-sf-bryson-tucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=12296","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball makes top 3 for 5-star SF Bryson Tucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Michigan State basketball made the top three for one of the top prospects in the 2024 class, five-star Bryson Tucker.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-bold-predictions-minnesota\/\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> is fresh off a dicey 76-66 win over Minnesota on Thursday night. That, however, wasn&#8217;t the only good news for the Spartans that came on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>MSU has all but wrapped up its 2024 recruiting class, except for one big fish still out there. Five-star small forward <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/bryson-tucker-46117936\/\">Bryson Tucker<\/a> announced his top three on Thursday and Michigan State made the cut.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5\u2b50\ufe0f Bryson Tucker is one of the top remaining prospects in the 2024 class. The 6-7 wing is weighing both the college route and professional opportunities. <\/p>\n<p>Is he leaning one way or another? Plus, the latest buzz surrounding his recruitment (On3+): <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LdXcjcwtcm\">https:\/\/t.co\/LdXcjcwtcm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QfCbQ3mFPi\">pic.twitter.com\/QfCbQ3mFPi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Tipton (@TiptonEdits) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TiptonEdits\/status\/1748097440605962684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Five-star Bryson Tucker recruiting update<\/h3>\n<p>Bryson Tucker is a five-star small forward from Arlington, Va. He is one of the highest-ranked recruits in the 2024 class who is still uncommitted. According to the 247Sports Composite rankings, he is the No. 19 player in the entire class. He is also the No. 7 small forward and No. 1 player in the state of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker is a great finisher at the rim, but the best part of his game by far is his mid-range. He is deadly anywhere from 12-17 feet which is something you don\u2019t hear often anymore. That unique skill set has phased out of basketball in recent years, which is partially the reason why it is so tough to guard. He is also able to shoot the 3-ball, but that\u2019s not one of his specialities or what he\u2019s known for.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker&#8217;s final three consists of two college programs and one professional league. Kansas is the other college in his top three along with Michigan State, but the NBA\u2019s G-League Ignite also made his final three. The Ignite is a professional team where Bryson would play for one year as a way to prepare himself for the NBA.<\/p>\n<h3>MSU\u2019s chances at landing Tucker<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to say what MSU\u2019s chances are of landing Tucker. No predictions have been made for him yet, however Michigan State is the only team that is \u201cwarm\u201d on his 247Sports profile. That may not mean much, so we should all take that with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<p>Something to keep an eye on is that Kansas\u2019 2024 recruiting class is a little better than MSU\u2019s. Kansas\u2019 2024 class is No. 9 in the country with a five-star in the mix while the Spartans class is No. 13 without any five-stars. Again, this likely doesn\u2019t mean much and is more of an observation.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing MSU to the Ignite now, I think the Spartans stack up well. These professional G-League teams used to be more of a draw before the NIL era, but now that college athletes can make a lot of money these professional teams haven\u2019t been stealing as many of these recruits recently.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, you have to like MSU\u2019s chances to win this recruitment. Anything can happen as no prediction has been made, but Michigan State basketball has done all it can to win this recruitment. No decision date is set yet, but that could change any day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This would be a huge recruiting win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[461,190,189,504,211],"class_list":["post-12296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bb-recruiting","tag-bryson-tucker","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}