2025 Recruiting: Darius Adams Update

[HooperScooper]

Some of our guys over the years had screwy rankings. Drummond was the second best recruit after Anthony Davis and Caron was top 10 on multiple recruiting services but the other ones didn't even bother ranking him.

Caron was a 5th year high school kid and some of the recruiting services had a rule they didn't rank those players in the class before they entered college if they were post graduate students.

Drummond reclassified from 2012 to 2011 so late that many of the recruiting services had already had their final 2011 rankings and didn't put Drummond into that class but pulled him out of the 2012 class. Kind of stupid and I highly doubt that would happen today.

 

[upstater]

Is Andrew Bynum the only #1 we ever landed (went to the NBA instead of college, obviously)?

 

[superjohn]

Is Andrew Bynum the only #1 we ever landed (went to the NBA instead of college, obviously)?

Bynum was the 10th ranked recruit.

 

[auror]

Drummond was the closest we had to #1. He was #1 in his 2012 class in some services before he reclassed into 2011. If the top guy in 2011 had been someone other than Anthony Davis, he might've kept his #1.

 

[mauconnfan]

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I was talking about Rudy Johnson not Gay I knew he was one of our highest ever. Not sure why I got on the Johnson train was it Gay that was being discussed? My bad but I will stick to my KEA number.

 

[NJHoops]

 

[Mooch82]

Yeah but that 18 composite is dumb. He was between 3rd and 8th in 6 of the 7 recruiting services but Hoop Scoop didn't rank him at all so his composite dropped to 18. Not sure why Hoop Scoop didn't rank him. Does anyone remember why? I think because Villanueva was a post graduate student and Hoop Scoop didn't rank those.

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Yeah I was going to say CV was absolutely a consensus top 10. Hoop Scoop had some weird rule about not ranking prep school guys or something - I remember Caron not being ranked either and that skewed everything.

 

[TheHorde]

Yeah I was going to say CV was absolutely a consensus top 10. Hoop Scoop had some weird rule about not ranking prep school guys or something - I remember Caron not being ranked either and that skewed everything.

Places like that should be thrown out of the overall rankings formula. It’s like if a polling service is consistently off by 5, 6, or 7 points every cycle, there should be a cost associated with being that wrong.

 

[upstater]

Bynum was the 10th ranked recruit.

Yeah, for some reason I thought #1. He actually finished #6 in Rivals.

I don't seem to remember this, but he enrolled at UConn and was there for a few months before he decided to jump to the NBA.

Youngest player ever drafted and considered the 2nd best center in the league at a very young age.

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[BGesus4]

I think Rudy in his year (while not #1) might’ve been the highest ranked player that went to college and not straight to the league