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Top 150 LSU basketball target set to announce commitment Wednesday

The Tigers could pick up their first commitment in the 2025 cycle on Wednesday evening.

LSU men’s basketball coach [autotag]Matt McMahon[/autotag] is still searching for his first commitment in the 2025 recruiting cycle, but that could be set to change on Wednesday.

Four-star power forward [autotag]Colt Langdon[/autotag] will announce his decision live on the On3 Recruits YouTube channel at 6 p.m. CT. The 6-foot-7 Millbrook (Raleigh, N.C.) prospect has narrowed his list of finalists down to LSU, Notre Dame and Butler.

Langdon ranks No. 123 nationally according to the On3 Industry Rankings and sits just outside the top 100 in On3’s own rankings. He recently discussed the Tigers with On3’s Joe Tipton.

“Coach (Ronnie) Hamilton talks with me almost every day,” he said. “I talk some with Coach (Casey) Long too. The head coach (Matt) McMahon calls me now almost every week. So they’re really consistent with their contact from the whole staff. I’m looking forward to taking another unofficial down there really soon.”

[autotag]Ronnie Hamilton[/autotag] has since left to be an assistant at Louisville.

Butler currently holds a crystal ball to land Langdon that was placed by 247Sports on Monday, but the Tigers are a slim favorite to land him according to the On3 recruiting prediction machine.

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LSU basketball coach Matt McMahon adds final assistant to complete staff

The Tigers added the final piece to their new coaching staff in Ole Miss assistant Ronnie Hamilton.

The Tigers have now completed their on-court basketball staff under new coach [autotag]Matt McMahon[/autotag]. The former Murray State coach already added Memphis assistant [autotag]Cody Toppert[/autotag] and former Racers assistant [autotag]Casey Long[/autotag].

On Friday, [autotag]Ronnie Hamilton[/autotag] agreed to join McMahon’s staff, providing the final piece of the puzzle. Hamilton has experience as an SEC assistant, coming from Ole Miss, where he spent the last four years and primarily worked with guards.

Hamilton followed coach Kermit Davis from Middle Tennessee State, where the pair worked together for an additional four years. Before that, he worked as an assistant at Houston, Tulane, The Citadel and Division II Tarleton State.

Hamilton has an undergraduate degree from Duke, where he was a four-year letterman for the Blue Devils in football rather than basketball, playing defensive back.

This new staff certainly has its hands full. Every player from last year’s team has now either entered the 2022 NBA draft or the transfer portal. McMahon and Co. have already added three players through the portal themselves, and they will need to add quite a bit more between now and the beginning of the season.

But with a full staff in place, the Tigers can hit the trail at maximum strength, which should help in convincing transfers to head to Baton Rouge despite potential impending sanctions.

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