{"id":21357,"date":"2025-07-27T14:54:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=21357"},"modified":"2025-07-27T14:54:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:54:50","slug":"michigan-state-basketball-lands-first-commit-of-the-2026-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=21357","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State basketball lands first commit of the 2026 class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-schedules-home-and-home-exhibition-with-uconn\/\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> struck on the recruiting trail. 2026 four-star guard Carlos Medlock Jr. shut down his recruitment, committing to Tom Izzo and the Spartans.<\/p>\n<p>Medlock Jr. had already announced a visit to MSU in September, occurring during Spartan basketball \u201cGrind Week\u201d. Medlock will visit alongside forward Quinn Costello and shooting guard Jasiah Jervis. However, after meeting with the staff and having been recruited by them for years, the point guard did not want to wait until September to end his recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he got on FaceTime with Tom Izzo to say \u201cI gotta tell you something real quick: I know you\u2019re looking at point guards, but I\u2019m just here to tell you: you ain\u2019t gotta look at point guards. I\u2019m coming to be a Spartan.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Carlos Medlock Jr. calling Tom Izzo to let him know he\u2019s got his next PG. Let\u2019s go. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D9xkUEiMxw\">pic.twitter.com\/D9xkUEiMxw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Spartans Hoops (@HoopsSpartans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoopsSpartans\/status\/1948883163062960350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Michigan State basketball landed their next star guard<\/h3>\n<p>Medlock Jr. originally started his high school basketball career with Wayne Memorial High School, in Michigan, taking his team to a state championship game last year. Before his senior year, he will be taking his talents to Link Academy in Missouri. His father, Carlos Medlock, started 108 games for the Eastern Michigan Eagles from 2005-2010, averaging 14.3 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>The younger Medlock is slightly undersized, at 5-foot-11, but it is easy to recall another undersized guard from Michigan who turned into a star with the Spartans, Cassius Winston. While Medlock Jr.\u2019s game revolves more around shooting the ball over passing, with the guard averaging nearly 25 points per game for Wayne Memorial last year, there will be big shoes for Medlock Jr. to fill in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>During the Adidas Circuit this summer, Medlock continued his hyper-production, averaging 21.1 points on 47 percent shooting, including 36 percent from behind the arc. While he is barely ranked outside the top-100 in the 247Sports Composite, at No. 118, he is expected to rise this summer and fall. He ultimately chose MSU over Michigan and Tennessee, two top-caliber programs with their own rich history of guard play.<\/p>\n<p>Medlock will find himself in the same guard room as Jeremy Fears Jr., who\u2019s father, Jeremy Fears, averaged 10.5 points for Ohio (a conference opponent of Medlock Sr.\u2019s Eastern Michigan squad) during 2004-2006.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Medlock is the only Spartan commit, and gives Michigan State basketball the No. 14 recruiting class in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love to see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[877,59,190,211],"class_list":["post-21357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bb-recruiting","tag-carlos-medlock-jr","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21357","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}