{"id":362017,"date":"2024-01-23T01:39:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T02:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=362017"},"modified":"2024-01-23T03:01:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T03:01:57","slug":"top-10-national-recruit-and-5-star-guard-mikayla-blakes-makes-an-sec-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=362017","title":{"rendered":"Top-10 national recruit and 5-star guard Mikayla Blakes, makes an SEC commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikayla Blakes made her college decision on Monday as the five-star guard committed to Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n<p>She picked the Commodores from a final seven that also included Indiana,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rutgerswire.usatoday.com\/\">Rutgers<\/a>, Stanford,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/\">Tennessee<\/a>, UCLA and <a href=\"https:\/\/badgerswire.usatoday.com\/\">Wisconsin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the top guards in the nation, Blakes is a 2024 recruit who is having a tremendous final season at Rutgers Prep (Somerset, New Jersey). She entered the weekend with a <a href=\"https:\/\/highschoolsports.nj.com\/school\/somerset-rutgers-prep\/girlsbasketball\/stats\">scoring average of 20.8 points per game.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/high-school\/girls-basketball\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/244046\">A five-star according to ESPN<\/a>, Blakes checks in as the tenth-best recruit in the nation in the 2024 class.<\/p>\n<p>She made her commitment on Monday afternoon following school.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">And it\u2019s\u2026\u2026\u2026.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikaylablakes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mikaylablakes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FuyucYdc88\">pic.twitter.com\/FuyucYdc88<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Lynch (@klhoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/klhoops\/status\/1749527704482062338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the season, <a href=\"https:\/\/vucommodores.com\/sports\/wbball\/schedule\/\">Vanderbilt is currently 17-3<\/a>. They lost this weekend at Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Blakes is a versatile and athletic guard. Besides being a strong scorer who can drive to the basket or shoot from distance, she is a tough defender who is aggressive off the ball.<\/p>\n<p>She is the only Vanderbilt commit to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/high-school\/girls-basketball\/recruiting\/rankings\/_\/class\/2024\">the ESPNW 100<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Mikayla Blakes is heading to the SEC.<\/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\/362017"}],"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=362017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362019,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362017\/revisions\/362019"}],"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=362017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}