“As we get ready to go on our trip to San Diego, nothing is more exciting than having the four players that my staff did such a job recruiting and my players did a good job,” Izzo said in a statement. “We got four guys that are ‘OKG’ — Our Kinda Guys. They were guys that get along, they kind of united together. All four of them spent a lot of time talking to each other.
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Michigan State’s men’s basketball team has received signed National Letters of Intent from Xavier Booker (Indianapolis, Ind./Cathedral), Coen Carr (East Point, Ga./Legacy Early College), Jeremy Fears (Joliet, Ill./Joliet West) and Gehrig Normand (North Richland Hills, Texas/Birdville).
Like the 2023 class, the 2024 group might start off slowly for Izzo and Co. as there are zero commitments just yet, but I wouldn’t be shocked to see one during the season or shortly after.
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On Monday, Jake Weingarten reported that the Spartans are getting a huge visit from a five-star center in the 2025 class. Michigan State is getting a visit from Francis Chukwudebelu on Oct. 15-16, just a day after he takes a trip to Lawrence to see Kansas.
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Michigan State will host one of the top center prospects in the 2024 class this weekend. Four-star center James Brown will reportedly take an official visit to Michigan State this upcoming weekend. Jake Weingarten reported on the Brown visit news on Sunday.
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Michigan State basketball offered a 4-star shooting guard in the 2024 class this weekend in Kur Teng. But they also offered another top player in the 2024 class who could be Teng’s running mate on the wing in Tyler Betsey.
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Tom Izzo looks intent on making his last chapter with the Spartans a memorable one, and we’ve seen an impressive uptick in his recruiting efforts as he puts together some great classes for the future. Over the weekend, Izzo offered someone who could be another nice addition to those future classes: Kur Teng.
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College basketball keeps changing, but Tom Izzo hopes he can keep his program near the top of the sport by offering stability in the face of chaos around him. That was the approach, the Hall of Fame Michigan State coach said, when he assembled one of the highest-rated recruiting classes in the program’s history over this past summer.
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Michigan State’s 2023 basketball class finds itself as the No. 2 team in the country according to the 247Sports Composite Rankings after ESPN updated their rankings. It is unlikely that Michigan State adds any more prospects to the class and looks like it will remain a four-man class featuring five-star center Xavier Booker, four-star point guard Jeremy Fears, four-star forward Coen Carr, and four-star forward Gehrig Normand.
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The updated 247Sports recruiting rankings hit the internet on Monday and almost every single Michigan State pledge in the class jumped up a number of spots. The only commit who didn’t rise? Xavier Booker who went from No. 3 to No. 6. It’s not a big drop, but it can’t be hated on that much because he’s still so highly touted and Rivals’ updated rankings have him No.
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The decently-athletic, sharp-shooting guy from the Fort Worth area makes a comparison to former Spartan Matt McQuaid really easy and the haunting nemesis of Javin DeLaurier’s sleepless nights actually has already connected well with Normand on his recent visit to East Lansing. There are distinct differences between the two players, though, and a bit more to know about Normand.
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Coen Carr hails from Stockbridge, Georgia, but has mentioned that he has been a fan of the Oregon Ducks ever since he was eight years old. Nike U actually showed some interest in him but didn’t really follow up on the pursuit. There were a number of other prominent programs recruiting Carr, though, including North Carolina State, UConn, Indiana, Tennessee, and LSU, among many others.
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Tom Izzo is catching up to Mel Tucker in a banner summer of recruiting for both Michigan State programs. Four-star 2023 prospect Coen Carr announced his commitment to the Spartans basketball program Tuesday night. The 6-foot-7, 200-pound small forward chose MSU over finalists Indiana, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.
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Remember the “Tom Izzo is washed” crowd? It’s nearly gone extinct over the past couple of weeks. Five-star big man Xavier Booker committed to Michigan State over Indiana, four-star athletic sharpshooting wing Gehrig Normand picked the Spartans just days after getting an offer, and now four-star freak athlete Coen Carr looks to be well on his way to joining the already-loaded 2023 class. Right now, the class is almost perfectly balanced.
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As the 2022-2023 offseason progresses for the Michigan State men’s basketball program, and as the class of 2023 begins to round into shape with the excitement of the recent commitments of Xavier Booker and Gehrig Normand (who join Jeremy Fears Jr.), MSU fans can, at least tentatively, sketch out what the 2023-2024 season will look like, on paper.
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