{"id":340626,"date":"2023-10-21T01:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T01:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=340626"},"modified":"2023-10-21T02:00:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T02:00:22","slug":"5-star-boogie-fland-is-kentucky-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=340626","title":{"rendered":"5-star Boogie Fland is Kentucky-bound!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the top prospects in the nation, Boogie Fland, committed to Kentucky on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A standout guard at Archbishop Stepinac (White Plains, New York), Fland is a five-star recruit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/basketball\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/247470\/johnuel-fland\">and the No. 18 player in the nation according to ESPN<\/a>. He made his college announcement at his high school.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the class of 2024, Fland chose Kentucky from a final three that also included <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltidewire.usatoday.com\/\">Alabama<\/a> and Indiana. Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/kentucky\/Season\/2023-Basketball\/Commits\/\">Kentucky had the top-ranked recruiting class in the nation<\/a>. This year with the addition of Fland, they are currently at No. 17 nationally.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3 guard averaged\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ny\/white-plains\/archbishop-stepinac-crusaders\/athletes\/johnuel-fland\/basketball\/stats\/?careerid=ioat066eb7ap9\">18.1 points and 3.7 assists per game<\/a>. He is coming off an official visit to Alabama in late September.<\/p>\n<p>Fland revealed his pick with a certain amount of swagger. He went for all three hats on the table before standing up and revealing a Kentucky t-shirt underneath his jacket.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd at his high school went absolutely bonkers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/kentucky\/Season\/2024-Basketball\/Commits\/\">He joins four-star center Somto Cyril<\/a> in the Kentucky 2024 recruiting class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Boogie Fland made his college choice on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340627,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340626\/revisions\/340627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}