{"id":359662,"date":"2024-01-13T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=359662"},"modified":"2024-01-13T18:01:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T18:01:29","slug":"could-duke-basketball-be-close-to-adding-another-5-star-in-the-2024-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=359662","title":{"rendered":"Could Duke basketball be close to adding another 5-star in the 2024 class?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>V.J. Edgecombe has announced that he will commit this weekend, putting an end to the recruitment of one of the nation&#8217;s top guards. And Duke basketball is perceived to be the favorite in the race to land Edgecombe.<\/p>\n<p>A five-star guard from Long Island Lutheran (Glen Head, New York), Edgecombe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TiptonEdits\/status\/1745827276200059235\">announced that he will be making his announcement on Sunday night<\/a>. The announcement will be aired on ESPN2 and is scheduled for at halftime of the Hoophall Classic game between Montverde and Prolific Prep.<\/p>\n<p>The final three are slated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/other\/duke-recruiting-thrilling-talent-announces-decision-time\/ar-AA1mT2Hr\">to be Baylor, Duke and Kentucky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A 6-foot-4 prospect, Edgecombe is the second-highest ranked combo guard in the nation behind Dylan Harper (a Rutgers basketball commit). He is the No. 5 recruit in the nation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/basketball\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/253913\/vj-edgecombe\">according to ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Edgecombe ends up at Duke, it would be the likely cap to a recruiting class that is truly tremendous. His commitment would give the Duke class, which currently has six commitments, <a href=\"https:\/\/duke.rivals.com\/commitments\/basketball\/2024\">a total of five players ranked as five-star recruits.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Duke would also join <a href=\"https:\/\/rutgerswire.usatoday.com\/\">Rutgers<\/a> with two commitments from top-five players in the class. Rutgers has the aforementioned Harper as well as five-star forward Airious &#8216;Ace&#8217; Bailey in this class.<\/p>\n<p>Harper just returned from injury on Friday night <a href=\"https:\/\/rutgerswire.usatoday.com\/2024\/01\/13\/rutgers-basketball-how-did-dylan-harper-do-in-his-return-to-the-court\/\">and scored 21 points for Don Bosco Prep (Ramsey, New Jersey).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>V.J. Edgecombe is set to make his college announcement on Sunday.<\/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\/359662"}],"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=359662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359663,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359662\/revisions\/359663"}],"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=359662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}