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Brad Stevens’ son Brady commits to Notre Dame for 2024

Another future get for the Irish.

The [autotag]Micah Shrewsberry[/autotag] era at Notre Dame seems to be defined early by luring the offspring of established basketball minds. Shrewsberry’s son, Braeden and Calvin Booth’s son, Carey, will make their Irish debuts this coming season. Recently, Nazr Mohammed’s son, Sir, committed for 2024. Now, the Irish can add Brad Stevens’ son, Brady, to the mix in 2024 after the following Instagram post was made:

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Not much seems to be known about the younger Stevens other than he plays for the high school in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He doesn’t even have a 247Sports profile, suggesting he was only lightly recruited if at all. However, Shrewsberry was an assistant for the elder Stevens with Butler and then, the Boston Celtics. That alone might have made Notre Dame the best college option for someone who clearly will be walking on.

While the 2023-24 Irish will struggle, there is hope that the 2024-25 Irish  will allow Shrewsberry to do more than try to patch something together with a makeshift roster. Do you have the patience for that? Well, you won’t have a choice regardless. After all, good things come to those who wait.

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Notre Dame dead last in Jon Rothstein’s ACC preseason power rankings

Oof.

Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports has begun his conference previews on his website, College Hoops Today. The ACC is the first conference he’s looking at, and you probably can guess where he has Notre Dame given the state of the program. Yes, he’s picking the Irish to finish last out of 15 teams in 2023-24.

It’s disheartening to see but also not a surprise. Virtually the entire roster is different with only a few bench holdovers from 2022-23. [autotag]Micah Shrewsberry[/autotag] is the new coach, and he had to pick from the transfer portal’s scrap heap just to have enough players to field a team. Even those players had little experience compared to your typical college basketball rotational player.

To be fair, it’s not completely terrible. Rothstein lists [autotag]Carey Booth[/autotag] as an impact freshman and [autotag]Kebba Njie[/autotag], who was with Shrewsberry at Penn State, as an under-the-radar transfer. But for everything else, this is going to be a rough season. In fact, it probably will take two or three years before Shrewsberry has the team he wants.

Here’s hoping the Irish do anything to make it worth everyone’s while to watch them this season. That’s going to be tough.

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Notre Dame lands 2023 forward recruit Carey Booth

Finally, some size.

Notre Dame desperately has been searching for size with very little of it returning in 2023-24. [autotag]Braeden Shrewsberry[/autotag], son of coach [autotag]Micah Shrewsberry[/autotag], committed to the Irish, but he merely was the latest entry on a long list of guards they’ve had lately. Finally, the program has a new forward in [autotag]Carey Booth[/autotag], who announced his own commitment to the Irish less than 24 hours after Shrewsberry.

Booth is a four-star recruit and fourth on the list of 2023 recruits in New Hampshire. At 6-foot-10, he fills the height left by [autotag]Nate Laszewski[/autotag] and likely the young forward role left by the transferred Ven-Allen Lubin. Depending on how the rest of the roster shapes up, he could be thrust into the spotlight immediately.

Like Braeden Shrewsberry, Booth appeared headed to Penn State. Instead, he also is taking his talents to South Bend so that he’ll play for Micah Shrewsberry after all. He also previously visited Marquette and California and received offers from 13 other Division I schools.

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Look at Notre Dame’s current 2023-24 roster

Do you have confidence in this group as it stands?

There still is time for Notre Dame to add to its 2023-24 roster, but don’t count on a game-changer suddenly emerging onto campus. Barring an unforeseen circumstance, the players the Irish have now figure to make up the core. That’s not a strong vote of confidence for Irish fans, but remember that first-year coach [autotag]Micah Shrewsberry[/autotag] practically has to start from scratch after the program lost all of its rotation players to graduation and the transfer portal.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this is going to be a very bad season for the Irish. The few holdovers from [autotag]Mike Brey[/autotag]’s tenure have played very little. While Shrewsberry was able to bring his 2023 Penn State recruiting class and one of his Nittany Lions starters from the 2022-23 season, that’s not a lot of college basketball experience coming in. He must be in one of, if not the least envious position in the country.

Hopefully, the day will come when Shrewsberry has built the Irish back into a winner. Until then, try and get behind these players who are just there to do their jobs and play basketball:

Notre Dame lands Zionsville combo guard recruit Logan Imes

Shrewsberry’s Penn State guys keep following him to South Bend.

Make that three 2023 recruiting class commits for Notre Dame in as many days. Also make three commits in as many days who were headed to Penn State but switched to the Irish, likely because of [autotag]Micah Shrewsberry[/autotag] leaving State College for South Bend. [autotag]Braeden Shrewsberry[/autotag] and [autotag]Carey Booth[/autotag] committed to the program earlier this week. Now, they are joined by Zionsville’s [autotag]Logan Imes[/autotag], who decommitted from the Nittany Lions shortly after the Irish hired Micah Shrewsberry:

Imes, a preseason pick for the Indiana Mr. Basketball honor that ultimately went to incoming Irish freshman [autotag]Markus Burton[/autotag], is the latest in a series of guards to call South Bend their home. What he brings that others can’t comes from the fact that he’s a combo guard. That could be critical whenever Micah Shrewsberry needs flexibility in the backcourt, crowded as it’s appearing to be.

Imes played varsity all four years at Zionsville, averaging 12.4 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.6 assists a game. During that time, he also had offers from Virginia Tech, Wake Forest and Creighton. The Irish surely have to be happy that the offers from the two ACC rivals never were seriously considered. Now, he’s all theirs.

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Crystal ball pick says former Penn State commit could follow Shrewsberry to Notre Dame

A crystal ball prediction yields ominous outcome for Penn State basketball

We probably should have seen something like this coming. Although nothing is officially a done deal by any stretch of the imagination, one recruiting analyst is calling for former Penn State commit [autotag]Carey Booth[/autotag] to end up at Notre Dame. And just as Booth was a big-time recruiting victory for [autotag]Micah Shrewsberry[/autotag] at Penn State, Shrewsberry could once again score a nice recruiting win involving Booth.

Booth is being predicted to end up at Notre Dame by 247Sports contributor Trevor Andershock. What makes this prediction so notable is Andershock’s perfect record in crystal ball predictions, as he is currently 44-for-44. So, on the surface, this does seem rather ominous for Penn State.

Booth committed to Penn State in August 2022 when Shrewsberry was still the head coach of the Nittany Lions. Booth, the son of former Penn State standout Calvin Booth, was the second highest-ranked recruit in the history of the Penn State basketball program.

Shortly after Shrewsberry left Penn State to become the new head coach at Notre Dame, Booth asked to be released from his national letter of intent so he could explore his opportunities once again. The four-star deciding to stick with Penn State seemed unlikely, and a move to Notre Dame would seem to be a likely scenario at this point in time.

Booth was the first of two players to ask for a release from his NLI since Shrewsberry’s departure for south Bend.  [autotag]Logan Imes[/autotag] is the most recent player to ask to be released from his NLI. The three-star Indiana native could also be on Notre Dame’s radar for Shrewsberry, although it is reported Imes could still end up at Penn State.

Penn State’s current roster for the 2023-24 season has five scholarship players at the moment. The class of 2023 has just one remaining player, for now, and it just so happens to be Shrewsberry’s son, [autotag]Braeden Shrewsberry[/autotag].

Penn State’s search for a new head coach to succeed Shrewsberry. Whoever is named the head coach will have a lot of work to do in filling out the roster for next season.

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Carey Booth asks for release from Penn State after Shrewsberry’s departure

Penn State’s top commit in 2023 has asked to be released from his NLI

To say this has been a challenging week for Penn State’s men’s basketball program would be an understatement.

After losing head coach Micah Shrewsberry to Notre Dame and seeing a pair of players enter the transfer portal, Penn State’s top commitment in the Class of 2023 has asked for a release from his national letter of intent. [autotag]Carey Booth[/autotag], one of the top recruits to commit to Penn State in program history, wants to explore anew his opportunities to play college basketball.

The news of Booth asking to be released from his letter of intent was first shared by his high school basketball coach, Jason Smith, via Twitter. The development has since been confirmed by multiple reports.

Booth, the son of former Penn State basketball star [autotag]Calvin Booth[/autotag], committed to the program in August 2022. The legacy commitment was considered a major recruiting victory for Shrewsberry, and the future of Penn State basketball was looking pretty bright with Booth coming in. But as so often happens in the world of college sports, a coaching change can happen at the worst possible time for a student-athlete.

With Shrewsberry moving on to Notre Dame, Booth has every right and reason to contemplate if Penn State is still the best spot for him. Without knowing for sure who the head coach will be for the Nittany Lions, it makes sense for Booth to want to step back and monitor the situation before going all in for the program his father played for. Maybe Penn State will still end up being the place Booth chooses to play for, but the cloud of uncertainty is ominous.

Penn State is continuing its search for a head coach to take over the program. No timeline has been announced for when a hire will be made.

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Penn State favored to land 2024 top 100 player

Penn State basketball a favorite to land this top 100 player in 2024

Penn State basketball has increased their level of recruiting in recent years. In 2015, they landed [autotag]Josh Reaves[/autotag] who was the first four-star recruit in program history. The next year, [autotag]Tony Carr[/autotag] and [autotag]Lamar Stevens[/autotag] were the only other four-star recruits to come to Penn State.

[autotag]Micah Shrewsberry[/autotag] has been able to land some high end talent since he’s taken over the reigns in State College. [autotag]Kebba Njie[/autotag] was a four-star in the class of 2022. [autotag]Carey Booth[/autotag] is a four-star commit from the 2023 class.

Now, it looks like another four-star might be coming to play for Penn State.

[autotag]Sir Mohammed[/autotag] is a 6’6″ wing player in North Carolina. He’s the son of former Kentucky and 18-year NBA player [autotag]Nazr Mohammed[/autotag].

Originally a native of Lexington, Kentucky, Mohammed now plays his high school basketball at Myers Park in Charlotte, NC. 247Sports has him ranked as the 73rd best player in the country for the 2024 class.

On Monday, Mohammed announced his top six schools.

He hasn’t ranked any of the schools on his list and is not excluding any of the other schools who are currently recruiting him.

There are 21 programs who have offered him a scholarship. Some of the top schools outside of his top six include Michigan, Providence, Georgetown, Ohio State, Xavier, NC State, Cincinnati and Notre Dame.

While Mohammed said his top six aren’t ranked in a particular order as of now, On3’s Recruiting Prediction Machine thinks Penn State will land the four-star recruit.

Right now, the Nittany Lions are given a 47.1% chance to land him. Stanford is second with a 32.1% chance.

Mohammed told On3’s Joe Tipton what he’s liked about Penn State so far saying, “The relationship made with the Coach Shrewsberry and Coach Aki and the rest of the staff has been amazing and both my unofficial and official visit were great.”

As Penn State fans wait to see if Shrewsberry will stay with the program, it’s good to see recruits are still in including Penn State on their lists.

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Penn State basketball recruiting 2024 3-star from Virginia

Penn State basketball looking to recruit three-star player from Virginia

It’s no secret that the success of basketball teams is built on the recruiting trail.

Talent wins in any sport, but it’s even more obvious in basketball at the high major level. It’s something that Penn State had struggled with over the years despite their close proximity to the hotbeds of Philadelphia, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia.

Since head coach [autotag]Micah Shrewsberry[/autotag] took over, his staff has been attacking the recruiting trail hard. They secured the highest rated class in program history in 2022. That was followed up by getting the second highest rated recruit in program history with the commitment of [autotag]Carey Booth[/autotag] from the 2023 class.

With that class being set, the attention has turned to 2024.

There are currently no commitments from any player in that class, however, there are certainly some targets.

One of those is a 6’11” big man from Fairfax, Virginia. [autotag]Garrett Sundra[/autotag] cracked the Top 150 of On3’s database and has garnered attention from programs across the country.

The 6’11” big man is a stretch forward who is great at shooting the ball. He also has a polished skill set with his back to the basket.

One of the reasons why he’s interested in Penn State is because of the emphasis that is put on shooting the ball.

He recently told On3’s Jamie Shaw, “they’ve been having a really good season so far; they’re playing really well. They shoot the ball well as a team and emphasis that.”

Sundra currently holds an offer from Penn State and nine other schools.

He’s taken one official visit so far and that was to Butler. It seems right now that they are the leaders in the clubhouse to sign Sundra, but it’s still early in the process.

Penn State is in communication with him to officially have him visit the campus and program.

Sundra would be a big get for Penn State as he continues to climb recruiting boards and has increased his overall level of play.

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Meet Penn State basketball’s second highest recruit ever: Carey Booth

Penn State basketball’s second highest-rated recruit is a legacy commit.

Head coach [autotag]Micah Shrewsberry[/autotag] has been attacking the recruiting trail hard since he’s come to State College.

The 2022 class was the highest-rated class in Penn State basketball program history. Headlined by four-star recruit [autotag]Kebba Njie[/autotag], there were five overall commits with the other players being three-start recruits according to 247Sports.

Njie, [autotag]Kanye Clary[/autotag] and [autotag]Evan Mahaffey[/autotag] were all in the rotation this season getting valuable experience as Penn State looks to rebuild their roster talent.

One of the things that has plagued the Nittany Lions in recent years is their lack of size and talent at the big man positions. Their inability to rebound and guard taller players in the Big Ten has been a big reason why Penn State has struggled during conference play.

It looks like Shrewsberry found his answer to those problems.

Four-star recruit and ESPN Top 100 player, [autotag]Carey Booth[/autotag], committed to Penn State in the Class of 2023.

He’s the son of former Penn State star, [autotag]Calvin Booth[/autotag], who is now the General Manager of the NBA’s Denver Nuggets.

Booth is the second highest-rated recruit in program history according to 247Sports. He ranks second behind [autotag]Tony Carr[/autotag] from the 2016 class.

Booth ranks 74th in the ESPN Top 100 for the class of 2023. He is listed at 6’10” and 190 pounds with a very advanced skill set.

He’s an athletic big who can attack and play above the rime. He also possesses the ability to dribble and create his own shot off the bounce. Booth is a natural athlete who is a shot blocker on the defensive end.

This is a major recruit for Shrewsberry and Penn State. Getting the son of a program legend is always a good sign about the health of the program overall.

It’s to be seen if Booth’s game at the high school level can translate to high major basketball in the Big Ten, but this is an exciting signing for Penn State as they continue to increase the level of athlete on the roster.

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