Resetting the Virginia Basketball Recruiting Class of 2023

This weekend introduced two huge bulletins on the basketball recruiting entrance, as two of Virginia’s targets within the class of 2023 introduced their school choices. Considerably unsurprisingly, the Hoos have been left empty-handed on the finish of the weekend as each Trey Inexperienced (Xavier) and Jamie Kaiser (Maryland) dedicated to different colleges. With these two names off the board, let’s reset the place issues stand for UVA’s remaining targets within the recruiting class of 2023. 

Earlier than discussing what’s subsequent, let’s recap what’s occurred to this point on this recruiting cycle. 

The Cavaliers thought that they had secured their first commit again within the spring with London Johnson (Norcross, Georgia), however the four-star level guard delayed his dedication announcement on a number of events and now seems to be headed to the NBA G League Ignite crew, though he stays uncommitted at this level. 

Blake Buchanan (Coeur D’Alene, Idaho) turned Virginia’s first verbal commit within the class when he selected the Cavaliers over Gonzaga on July third. The 6’10” ahead’s dedication to UVA has regarded higher and higher as he has continued to shine on the ground this summer season. 

Since then, Virginia has not earned any extra commitments however the Hoos have made the reduce lists for a number of prospects on this class. 4-star ahead Milan Momcilovic (Pewaukee, Wisconsin) included UVA in his high six, however finally selected Iowa State over Virginia, Michigan State, UCLA, Minnesota, and Louisville. UVA additionally made the ultimate reduce for four-star level guard Trey Inexperienced (Mooresville, North Carolina) and four-star wing Jamie Kaiser (Burke, Virginia). Inexperienced by no means visited Virginia and dedicated to Xavier, whereas Kaiser ended his recruiting saga by selecting Maryland over UVA and Indiana. 

Virginia additionally provided Cameron Christie (Rolling Meadows, Illinois), who completed a uncommon feat by retaining his recruitment non-public and never making any bulletins about reducing his record. As a substitute, the three-star capturing guard introduced on July twenty ninth that he was committing to Minnesota. 

With these affords off the desk, UVA has energetic affords out to seven remaining gamers within the class of 2023 – 5 of whom have included the Cavaliers on their most up-to-date reduce lists. 

4-star guard Taison Chatman (Minneapolis, Minnesota) included UVA in his high 5 when he reduce his record again on July sixteenth. Freddie Dilione (Raleigh, North Carolina), a four-star guard and 247Sports’ No. 1-ranked participant in North Carolina, nonetheless has 10 colleges on his newest reduce record, together with Virginia. 4-star wing Andrej Stojakovic (Carmichael, California), the son of former NBA star Peja Stojakovic, introduced his high six on July twenty ninth and included Virginia together with Duke, Stanford, Oregon, Texas and UCLA. As introduced on Saturday, Virginia made the highest 5 for Elijah Gertrude (Jersey Metropolis, New Jersey), ranked a four-star combo guard by On3. 

Most not too long ago and maybe most importantly, four-star TJ Energy (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) introduced his high 5 on Monday and Virginia made the reduce for the highly-coveted ahead together with Duke, North Carolina, Boston Faculty and Iowa. The consensus No. 1 prospect in Massachusetts, Energy has established himself as among the best total gamers on this recruiting class and maybe the very best shooter within the nation this summer season. He reduce out a number of big-name applications along with his last 5, together with Kansas, UCLA, and Indiana. Energy has an amazing relationship with Tony Bennett and has been a fan of the UVA basketball program for a very long time. Virginia continues to be within the operating however the battle for Energy’s dedication will solely get extra intense as he seems to announce his determination someday in September. 

Moreover, Tony Bennett and firm are nonetheless in pursuit of two different prospects. Davin Cosby (Richmond, Virginia), a high 5 prospect from the state of Virginia, picked up a suggestion from UVA on July twenty sixth. Cosby has scheduled a go to to Charlottesville for August twenty sixth. UVA can be pursuing guard Elmarko Jackson (Richland, New Jersey) as a solution to this system’s ‘level guard of the longer term’ query. Jackson has affords from greater than 20 main applications and has plans to announce a reduce record very quickly. 

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