Tag: USC Basketball Recruting

USC makes final five for four-star 2025 shooting guard

USC continues to be in play for some top hoops recruits.

Kayden ‘Bugg” Edwards released his top five schools with USC, LSU, Colorado, Oklahoma State and TCU making the cut. Edwards is a 6-foot-3 guard out of Duncanville, Texas, who is a four-star prospect from the 2025 class.

On3, 247Sports, ESPN and Rivals all list Edwards as a four-star prospect. 247Sports is the highest on Edwards among that group, listing him as the No. 56 player in the class. That makes him the No. 6 player out of Texas and the No. 12 shooting guard in the class.

According to On3, Edwards is expected to take official visits to each of his top five schools — with Colorado (Aug. 29), Oklahoma State (Sept. 7), TCU (Sept. 12), LSU (Sept. 21) and USC (Sept. 27).

Edwards averaged 23.2 points, 2.4 assists and 3.4 rebounds a game while shooting 35% from 3 point land in 2023.

There are no crystal ball projections for “Bugg” Edwards at this time but the TCU Horned Frogs are a 25% favorite to land him per On3’s recruiting prediction machine.

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USC basketball is a finalist for four-star small forward

Eric Musselman tries to land a California-based recruit with Oregon roots.

Winters Grady, a four-star small forward, was offered last month by the USC basketball program and Eric Musselman. Now Grady has the Trojans as a finalist for his choice of top schools.

The nine schools Grady has announced are USC, Oregon, Michigan, Oklahoma, Creighton, Iowa, New Mexico, Arizona State, and Colorado.

Grady is a 6-foot-7, 200-pound small forward who plays his high school basketball at Prolific Prep, a school in Napa, California, but originally, he’s from Lake Oswego, Oregon.

According to the 247Sports Composite Player Rankings, the world of recruiting sees Grady as the No. 81 overall recruit in the 2025 recruiting class. The four-star also rates as the No. 13 small forward nationally and the No. 6 player in the state of California. Eric Musselman has a national recruiting strategy at USC, but he does need to win his share of West Coast and California recruitments as well.

Grady has official visits remaining with the following schools listed below.

  • New Mexico – Aug. 22
  • Michigan – Aug. 29
  • Iowa – Sep. 7
  • Colorado – Sep. 11
  • Oklahoma – Sep. 21

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Eric Mussleman, USC extend offer to 2026 five-star guard

Eric Musselman is going after the top recruit in Arkansas.

USC head coach Eric Musselman has offered Little Rock Christian Academy (Ark.) five-star combo guard JaShawn “JJ” Andrews.

The Class of 2026 Arkansas native stands at 6-foot-6, 210 pounds, with an incredible 7-5 wingspan. His athleticism starts in his household. Andrews’ father, Shawn Andrews, was a two-time All America offensive lineman (2002 and 2003) at Arkansas, and he went on to star for the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL as a two-time Pro Bowler (2006 and 2007) and a first-team All Pro (2006).

He is rated as high as the No. 15 player in the nation, according to ESPN. On3’s Industry Ranking compiles each recruiting publication’s ranking into one; Andrews sits at No. 20 overall, the No. 9 small forward and the No. 1 player in Arkansas.

This summer in four games during the Nike E16 Peach Jam including the quarterfinals, semifinals, and title game, Andrews averaged 21.0 points and 8 rebounds per outing while shooting 68.3% from the field and 78.1% from the free throw line.

Along with USC, Andrews holds offers from Arkansas, Marquette, Illinois, Ole Miss, Indiana with many more to come.

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USC basketball offers four-star prospect Kaden Magwood

Eric Musselman is trying to build future USC rosters.

USC basketball recruiting target Kaden Magwood is getting plenty of attention. In addition to an offer from USC, he also holds offers from Ole Miss, Penn State, Rhode Island, Western Kentucky, West Virginia, Alabama, LSU, Louisville, Michigan, Marquette, Georgia Tech, Illinois, West Virginia and others.

The 6-foot-3, 170-pound point guard is regarded as a consensus four-star prospect in the 2025 cycle, No. 6 in the state of Virginia. He has been ranked as high as the No. 94 recruit in the nation according to247Sports

He averaged 13.7 points and 3.7 rebounds per game while shooting 51 percent from the field and 51.6 percent on threes for Western High School in Louisville.

He recently transferred to national powerhouse Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson (Virginia).

Magwood has been shining in this offseason’s AAU circuit. In eight games played so far for Team Loaded at the Adidas 3SSB event, he is averaging 24.1 points, 3.2 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.5 steals. That is hefty production.

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