{"id":19535,"date":"2024-10-15T13:42:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T17:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=19535"},"modified":"2024-10-15T13:42:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T17:42:30","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-on-commit-watch-again-with-top-50-pf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=19535","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball on commit watch again with top-50 PF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just last week, everyone was ready to throw in the towel on <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-key-stats-from-win-northern-michigan\/\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> recruiting for the 2025 class. The Spartans had zero commitments and Tom Izzo had missed on Trent Sisley, Darius Adams, Jalen Haralson, and Trey McKenney.<\/p>\n<p>But then he landed four-star small forward Jordan Scott and everyone backed off a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Sunday, five-star Dwayne Aristode committed to Arizona and the doubters of Izzo&#8217;s recruiting got louder again. But they could soon be silenced thanks to a looming commitment.<\/p>\n<p>According to Adam Finkelstein, four-star power forward Cam Ward will be committing on Oct. 22. And Michigan State is the presumed favorite.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Largo HS (MD) &amp; Team Durant forward Cam Ward, a top-60 national prospect in the class of 2025, will announce his college commitment Tuesday, October 22nd at 6pm, live on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/247Sports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@247Sports<\/a> channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F2gmbExblR\">https:\/\/t.co\/F2gmbExblR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dm5Uih1fYW\">pic.twitter.com\/Dm5Uih1fYW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Finkelstein (@AdamFinkelstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamFinkelstein\/status\/1846196152191873107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Landing Ward over Maryland and Virginia which would be the local schools for him would be massive, especially considering the Spartans just secured a commitment from Scott who was also at the top of the Terrapins&#8217; wish list.<\/p>\n<p>Ward is ranked the No. 50 overall recruit in the class and he&#8217;s also the 14th-best power forward, per the 247Sports Composite.<\/p>\n<p>Standing 6-foot-7 and weighing 210 pounds, Ward wouldn&#8217;t be the biggest option at power forward, but he&#8217;s incredibly skilled and he can still grow into that frame and put more muscle on. Plus, Michigan State has thrived with &#8220;smaller&#8221; forwards before with the most recent being Malik Hall &#8212; he was just 6-foot-8 and 220 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>According to Finkelstein&#8217;s scouting report on 247Sports, Ward has a 6-foot-11 wingspan and plays an inside-out style that should fit in nicely at the college level. He doesn&#8217;t have a consistent 3-point shot yet, but that&#8217;s something he could add to his game.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State basketball has had a post problem for a few years now and adding a guy who is skilled at scoring in the paint and can finish strong at the rim and who can rebound at a high level would be a sight for sore eyes.<\/p>\n<p>All the crystal balls on 247Sports favor the Spartans here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Izzo could be catching fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[829,190,189,504],"class_list":["post-19535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bb-recruiting","tag-cam-ward","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19535","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=19535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}