{"id":352128,"date":"2023-12-06T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=352128"},"modified":"2023-12-06T22:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T22:00:38","slug":"well-that-escalated-quickly-rutgers-basketball-lands-5-star-dylan-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=352128","title":{"rendered":"Well, that escalated quickly: Rutgers basketball lands 5-star Dylan Harper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday afternoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/rutgerswire.usatoday.com\/gallery\/jersey-pride-dylan-harper-a-5-star-guard-commits-to-rutgers-basketball\/\">Rutgers basketball landed a commitment from five-star guard Dylan Harper<\/a>. Two weeks prior, Airious &#8216;Ace&#8217; Bailey signed with Rutgers.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey is a five-star forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/basketball\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/247669\/airious-bailey\">and the third-highest ranked recruit in the nation.<\/a> In pretty quick succession, Rutgers has firmed up Bailey and Harper, giving them one of the top recruiting classes in the nation and the best-ever signing class in program history.<\/p>\n<p>The final five for Harper included Duke, <a href=\"https:\/\/auburnwire.usatoday.com\/\">Auburn<\/a>, Kansas, and Indiana in addition to Rutgers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/basketball\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/250614\/dylan-harper\">ESPN ranks Harper as the second-best player in the nation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rutgerswire.usatoday.com\/gallery\/jersey-pride-dylan-harper-a-5-star-guard-commits-to-rutgers-basketball\/\">Harper&#8217;s commitment on Wednesday<\/a> marks the highest-ranked recruit to ever commit to Rutgers basketball. A 6-foot-5 guard for Don Bosco Prep, Harper had an impressive offseason where he performed well with the United States national team at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Don Bosco (N.J.) Prep guard Dylan Harper \u2014 the No. 2 prospect in the ESPN Class of 2024 \u2014 is committing to the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, he tells ESPN. Harper is making public that decision at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fanatics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Fanatics<\/a> offices in New York shortly. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lJxtxmcFtQ\">pic.twitter.com\/lJxtxmcFtQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1732510187414577485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a junior at Don Bosco, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/nj\/ramsey\/don-bosco-prep-ironmen\/athletes\/dylan-harper\/basketball\/stats\/?careerid=u3f67qi5ko4td\">he averaged 23.4 points per game.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The signing of Harper and Bailey gives Rutgers one of the top recruiting classes in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of Harper, Rutgers moved up eight spots in the national recruiting rankings according to 24Sports. The Scarlet Knights <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Season\/2024-Basketball\/CompositeTeamRankings\/\">now have the third-best recruiting class in the nation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The previous distinction for the highest-ranked recruit ever signed by Rutgers? The aforementioned Bailey, who held the distinction for two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Dylan Harper, a five-star guard, has committed to Rutgers.<\/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\/352128"}],"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=352128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352130,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352128\/revisions\/352130"}],"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=352128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}