Will Virginia Basketball Land Another Commit in the 2023 Recruiting Class?

Will Virginia decide up one other dedication within the recruiting class of 2023? With Davin Cosby Jr. off the board to Alabama on Saturday, UVA is within the hunt for 3 remaining targets on this class: Andrej Stojakovic, George Washington III, and Elmarko Jackson. Let’s break down the newest on every participant’s recruitment and analyze Virginia’s possibilities of touchdown a dedication from one in all them. 

SF Andrej Stojakovic (Carmichael, CA)

Andrej Stojakovic, son of former NBA star Peja Stojakovic, picked up a proposal from Virginia again in Might earlier than his meteoric rise to turn out to be a five-star prospect by the tip of the summer season. In late July, Stojakovic included UVA in his prime six together with Duke, Stanford, Oregon, Texas, and UCLA, however there hasn’t been a lot traction between Stojakovic and the Cavaliers since then. 

The 6’6″ California ahead has been predicted to remain on the West Coast for some time and now there are 4 crystal ball projections on 247Sports in favor of Stojakovic committing to UCLA. He is taken visits to Texas, Oregon, and Stanford as effectively. Virginia hasn’t gotten a go to and it appears unlikely the Hoos will get one at this level. The one cause we’re nonetheless speaking about it’s as a result of Stojakovic put Virginia in his most up-to-date lower listing and hasn’t formally eradicated the Cavaliers from competition, so there’s nonetheless a non-zero, however extraordinarily low probability that he picks UVA. 

SG George Washington III (Dayton, OH)

Virginia is concerned with George Washington III once more for the primary time in almost a 12 months. He strongly thought of UVA in his preliminary recruiting course of in fall 2021, however he ended up committing to Ohio State final November. The Buckeyes primarily recruited over Washington after that, touchdown 4 extra commits of their 2023 class this 12 months, the final of which was Taison Chatman, a four-star guard who was additionally contemplating UVA, however dedicated to Ohio State on September twentieth. We do not have all the main points on what occurred behind the scenes, however Ohio State’s aggressive recruitment of Chatman and Bronny James, two gamers who play the identical place as Washington, in all probability performed a big think about him deciding to decommit and reopen his recruitment on September fifth. 

Regardless of the case could also be, Washington is again in the marketplace and the Cavaliers are attempting their luck with the four-star taking pictures guard once more. The identical day that Taison Chatman introduced his dedication to Ohio State, George Washington III introduced a brand new prime 5 and Virginia made the lower together with Louisville, Dayton, Michigan, and Wake Forest. 

“They had been on my last listing my first time going by means of the recruitment course of,” Washington instructed 247Sports’ Brandon Jenkins. “Kyle Getter is a superb man and Tony Bennett is wonderful. Not lots of people have something adverse to say about him and his character. He has confirmed himself as a Corridor of Fame coach who is likely one of the greatest to do it. He has a nationwide championship and his program is a recurring favourite within the ACC. They know the best way to win and he is aware of the best way to put guys within the league whereas he does it. They had been a very good selection for me to have in my prime 5.” 

Thus far, Washington has scheduled one go to to Michigan for the weekend of October 8-9. He’s anticipated to take a go to with Louisville as effectively, as he performed two seasons of basketball at Christian Academy of Louisville earlier than transferring to Chaminade Julienne in Dayton this 12 months. Tony Bennett and the Cavaliers are additionally hopeful to host Washington sooner or later, however no such go to has been scheduled that we all know of. 

PG Elmarko Jackson (South Kent, CT)

Elmarko Jackson could be the highest-ranked recruit to decide to Virginia on this period of recent recruiting monitoring. A four-star level guard, Jackson is the No. 18 total prospect within the class of 2023 per 247Sports in addition to the No. 4 level guard within the nation and the No. 1 participant in Connecticut. Jackson included UVA in his prime seven final week together with Texas, Notre Dame, UCLA, Villanova, Kansas, and Miami. With the opposite prime applications concerned, the struggle for Jackson’s dedication might be heated and difficult. 

However, if issues go as deliberate, Virginia does have a official probability to win this big-time recruiting battle with a few of school basketball’s elite applications for some of the proficient playmakers within the 2023 recruiting class. Jackson has visited Miami and Kansas and has plans to take a go to to Texas subsequent week after which one to Notre Dame on October thirtieth. In keeping with On3’s Joe Tipton, Jackson plans to take his fifth and last official go to to Virginia, however that go to will not be formally on the schedule but. Assuming that Jackson doesn’t commit to a different college within the subsequent month and that he does find yourself making a visit to Charlottesville in early November, that may imply that Tony Bennett and the Cavaliers may have the ultimate alternative to pitch Jackson on a dedication to UVA. 

“Virginia is altering their offense type of like a extra European kind of offense,” Jackson instructed On3. “The way in which they arrive off for screens and stuff like that. And identical to defensively, how they get after it. They’re a really aggressive defensive group. Coach Tony Bennett is a very good coach. He performed on the highest stage within the NBA the place I need to play. He performed level guard, the identical place as me. I really feel like he’s acquired the information extra so in that kind of discipline than a few of these different coaches have in relation to attending to the NBA at that time guard spot.”

It is not a assure, however it’s a frequent recruiting pattern that the final college a recruit visits is the one which finally ends up receiving his dedication. Jackson is the precise kind of participant Tony Bennett and the UVA teaching workers have been trying to find to be this system’s level guard of the longer term to succeed Reece Beekman. There aren’t many level guards within the nation as proficient as Elmarko Jackson. The Cavaliers are hopeful to not solely host Jackson on a go to this fall, however make a critical run at securing his dedication. 

A dedication from Elmarko Jackson or George Washington III could be large for the Cavaliers, who’ve already secured verbal commitments from two proficient gamers within the class of 2023 in four-stars Blake Buchanan and Elijah Gertrude. Including one other decide to that class would end in back-to-back excellent recruiting courses for the Virginia males’s basketball program. 

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