It's interesting that Gapare isn't even rated on the 24/7 list.  Are we being rated second best recruiting class without acknowledging Gapare's potential?

Hmmm.

Barry, the international guys often do not get a ranking.  When they play a year stateside, they generally do, if they haven't, they often don't which might explain that.


 

I have to say, 247’s rankings don’t seem terribly credible. 

Pinnock and Ricky Lucas were both top 100 (top 60 or so) recruits and I recall us debating, stupidly, whether recruiting Pinnock made any sense when we already had Ricky Lucas.

Strikes me that this site has almost all of our recruits rated lower than others had them, so I’m guessing this is one of those where their rankings are influenced by a where a kid signs (like if Freeman had chosen Ole Miss or Florida instead of GW, they’d have him as a 4 star and 50 places higher).

At any rate, if you need a reason to ignore rankings altogether, just look how bad they’ve been at predicting which players are good and which aren’t.  That “historical” list is beyond terrible at accurately ranking how players would be in college.

Having seen plenty of top rated recruits fail over my 2 decades of watching college basketball religiously I will hold my excitement. But all in all great news

The Dude wrote:

The 2021 GW guys are the 2 top ranked GW recruits in history.  

One need look no further than Matt Cimino's name to be reminded not every top recruit pans out, but I'll take my chances on highly regarded recruits, over some guy like Goss 


 

Well yeah lol but Goss with 4 years of ML could been a role player let's not forget that. Cimino was soft unfortunately. Size is great but only if utilized

Not every highly ranked recruit plays well at the next level, some like Battle become excellent players, others like Cimino and Swann look overmatched even after transferring down to AU

FWIW, JC's incoming class is comprised of the #1 and #2 ranked recruit in GW history