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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In the past week, the Spartans picked up commitments from five-star power forward Xavier Booker and four-star small forward Gehrig Normand. Those two joined four-star point guard Jeremy Fears, who committed to the Spartans earlier this year. With those three players, the Spartans now hold the No. 4 recruiting class in the 2023 cycle, according to 247Sports.
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The train keeps rolling for Tom Izzo’s Spartans as his staff has managed to land another top 150 prospect. This time it is three-star swingman Gehrig Normand who announced his commitment to Michigan State this evening.“Coach Izzo has always been texting and calling me to see how I am,” Normand said. “He has given me time to make my decision but I knew I was going to be a Spartan after I left that campus.”
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Justin Thind is joined by Xavier Booker’s AAU coaches Chris Scott and Mike Saunders. The George Hill All-Day co-directors talk about what Michigan State & head coach Tom Izzo did to land the five-star big-man, what MSU fans can expect out of Booker, and a lot more…
Two years ago, Tom Izzo landed the top player in the nation. On Saturday, Michigan State basketball’s head coach may have done it again, this time for the 2023 class. Xavier Booker announced Saturday his commitment to the Spartans on Instagram. The 6-foot-10, 205-pound power forward from Indianapolis chose MSU over his other nine finalists Michigan, Purdue, Ohio State, Indiana, Gonzaga, Notre Dame, Oregon, Cincinnati and Auburn.
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Jeremy Fears committed to Michigan State on January 6. Michigan State targeted and got their man early in the process, the point guard, the extension of the coach on the floor. We all know in college basketball, one of the biggest tasks of coaches is recruiting. So it is only natural that the extension of the coach puts his recruiting hat on as well.“I’m trying to get Xavier Booker and Devin Royal to come with me to Michigan State,” Fears told On3. “I think us three, that trio is hard to beat.”
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Michigan State’s 2022 recruiting class is about to go from prospects to players. The Spartans’ class will enroll in East Lansing in the coming weeks to begin their summer conditioning and preparation for the 2022-23 season. That means forward Jaxon Kohler and point guard Tre Holloman will begin their work in East Lansing after months as Spartans signees; the Spartans also added an unranked recruit this month in center Carson Cooper.
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The departure of Marcus Bingham Jr. and Julius Marble II created a significant hole in Michigan State’s frontcourt, and on Sunday, the Spartans and coach Tom Izzo took a step toward filling that void. It might not provide immediate aid, but the commitment of 6-foot-11 Carson Cooper from IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, on Sunday could certainly pay dividends in the long run.
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Tom Izzo has kicked off his 2023 recruiting class with a bang, landing highly ranked point guard Jeremy Fears Jr. The Spartans beat out Illinois and Michigan to earn the commitment of Fears.
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Tom Izzo and Michigan State basketball signed their two four-star recruits in Trejuan Holloman and Jaxon Kohler on Wednesday’s signing day, hours after returning from New York and a season-opening 87-74 loss to No. 3 Kansas. Izzo said he likely is not done adding to the 2022 recruiting class that had some hiccups along the way.
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Michigan State’s men’s basketball team has received signed National Letters of Intent from Trejuan Holloman (Saint Paul, Minn./Cretin-Derham) and Jaxon Kohler (American Fork, Utah/Southern California Academy [Calif.]).
Jaxon Kohler committed to Tom Izzo and the Michigan State Spartans men’s basketball program on Sept. 19, as Zach Manning noted in his announcement piece. This late-developing and lightning fast recruitment is a fascinating development for Izzo as he builds his 2022 class and begins to look ahead to 2023.
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On Saturday, Michigan State hosted over 25 recruits for the Stripe Out game against Nebraska. Two of those prospects were high-priority basketball recruits Braelon Green and Jeremy Fears Jr. The pair of 2023 four-star guards spent the evening with Tom Izzo and the hoops staff, along with the football recruits as well. Following the trip, Green took the time to talk to speak with Spartan Tailgate on how it went.
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The 2022 recruiting class for the Michigan State men’s basketball program just got a big addition, literally and figuratively, as four-star power forward Jaxon Kohler made his pledge to the Spartans. Kohler is rated as the No. 67 overall player in the 247 Sports Composite rankings and the No. 11 power forward. He is listed at 6-foot-9 and 250 pounds.
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With Isaac Traudt committing to the University of Virginia on Saturday, Aug. 28, the staff will need to take some time to consider their next move in this recruiting cycle. The number of targets for this recruiting class has remained small over the entire cycle and that has been both positive — landing Tre Holloman in part because he was the only lead guard the staff recruited — and now a negative.
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