{"id":353926,"date":"2023-12-15T11:43:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=353926"},"modified":"2023-12-15T13:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T13:00:58","slug":"dylan-harper-the-nations-second-best-high-school-recruit-puts-up-huge-numbers-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=353926","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Harper, the nation&#039;s second-best high school recruit, puts up huge numbers in season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five-star basketball recruit Dylan Harper certainly started the season off strong. The Rutgers basketball commit scored early and he scored often in his season opener.<\/p>\n<p>Harper, who committed to <a href=\"https:\/\/rutgerswire.usatoday.com\/\">Rutgers<\/a> just last week, showed efficiency in scoring in multiple ways and handling the offense well for Don Bosco Prep (Ramsey, New Jersey). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/nj\/ramsey\/don-bosco-prep-ironmen\/athletes\/dylan-harper\/basketball\/stats\/?careerid=u3f67qi5ko4td\">Don Bosco rolled to a 67-40 win over Eastside<\/a> (Paterson, New Jersey). Don Bosco was up 50-12 at halftime as they cruised to the win.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in just the first half, Harper was 9-of-12 for 22 points. The scoring from the guard started just 10 seconds into the game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It took Dylan Harper less than 10 seconds to score his first points of the high school season on this nice finish at the basket <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RUscarletnation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RUscarletnation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YZGGaFAdMK\">pic.twitter.com\/YZGGaFAdMK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Tsakonas (@tsakonas_chris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tsakonas_chris\/status\/1735466325672067099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harper made his commitment last week at the Fanatics headquarters building in New York City (fitting since <a href=\"https:\/\/rutgerswire.usatoday.com\/2023\/12\/13\/whats-the-deal-rutgers-basketball-commit-dylan-harpers-nil-deal-with-fanatics\/\">he signed a Name, Image and Likeness deal with Fanatics on the same day<\/a>). He had a final five that included Duke,<a href=\"https:\/\/auburnwire.usatoday.com\/\"> Auburn<\/a>, Kansas, and Indiana in addition to Rutgers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Halftime: Don Bosco 50, Eastside 12.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Harper has 22 points on 9\/12 shooting (8\/9 on 2s), 2 steals, 2 rebounds, one assist. Pretty good start to the season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qcqjmNBSMK\">https:\/\/t.co\/qcqjmNBSMK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eBnWa4zFhg\">pic.twitter.com\/eBnWa4zFhg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Fonseca (@briannnnf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/briannnnf\/status\/1735467613155647530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Don Bosco next plays McEachern (Powder Springs, Georgia) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/news\/RN_pwgbGeEWAO7n161qdgw\/high-school-basketball-tournaments%2c-showcases-and-events-to-watch-for-the-2023-24-season.htm\">in the City of Palms Classic in Fort Myers, Florida<\/a>. McEachern is powered by five-star forward Airious &#8216;Ace&#8217; Bailey, who committed to Rutgers in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Rutgers basketball commit Dylan Harper started the season off strong for Don Bosco Prep.<\/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\/353926"}],"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=353926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353928,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353926\/revisions\/353928"}],"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=353926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}