We interrupt our coverage of Lincoln Riley’s first football season at USC to bring you a very important piece of basketball recruiting news.
We could soon get an announcement date and then a revelation of one top recruit’s choice for the 2023 class.
Isaiah Collier, a top-five 2023 national recruit in the eyes of nearly every recruiting service, is an elite high school player. More than that, however, he is a point guard.
USC basketball fans can tell you, as can we: The Trojans desperately need an equation-changing point guard if they really and truly want to become a Final Four-level program which gets high NCAA Tournament seeds and can regularly make the second weekend of the Big Dance every March.
It might seem like empty bluster or knee-jerk embellishment to call any recruit a game-changer. No, Collier truly would be a game-changer. That’s not hyperbole or lazy, hype-driven salesmanship. Give USC a point guard surrounding all the defensive length Andy Enfield puts on a court. That’s the missing piece, folks. USC has been looking for a special point guard since Jordan McLaughlin left the program to become a valuable NBA player.
There’s a lot to tell you about Collier’s recruitment: