Missouri’s recruiting class surged to No. 1 within the 247Sports Class of 2024 Staff Rankings on Friday following the dedication of top-50 prospect Annor Boateng. The 6-foot-5 small ahead is taken into account a four-star prospect by 247Sports and is ranked a five-star prospect within the industry-generated 247Sports Composite rankings. He selected the Tigers over Auburn, Arkansas, Georgia Tech and LSU.
Boateng’s dedication is Missouri’s fourth of the 2024 recruiting cycle, as he joins fellow top-100 prospects Peyton Marshall, Marcus Allen and T.O. Barrett as a part of an spectacular haul for second-year coach Dennis Gates. The Tigers constructed on-court momentum with a 25-10 document and NCAA Match look in Gates’ first season, and recruiting success has adopted.
In Boateng, the Tigers are getting a bodily wing from close by Little Rock (Arkansas)-Central Excessive Faculty. He’s the No. 10 small ahead within the class and the highest prospect from Arkansas, in accordance with 247Sports.
“Boateng is without doubt one of the extra school prepared two-way wings within the nation,” 247Sports director of scouting Adam Finkelstein wrote. “He not solely has a university prepared physique, but additionally the mandatory motor to maximise his bodily instruments. In different phrases, he is robust and athletic with strong positional measurement on the wing. He additionally performs arduous and is clearly aggressive on each ends of the ground.”
If Missouri can maintain its class collectively and even add to it — the Tigers are pursuing five-star heart Jayden Quaintance — this system may end with simply its second top-10 class of the previous 20 years. This system’s final such class got here in 2017 below former coach Cuonzo Martin with a gaggle headlined by five-star brothers Michael Porter and Jontay Porter.