Cassidy’s Takeaways: Two FutureCasts and more recruiting intel

Junfu Han-USA TODAY NETWORK

With prospects everywhere narrowing their list and making verbal commitments, the Rivals newswire has been busy in recent weeks. Today, national analyst Rob Cassidy looks ahead and examines a handful of prospects that could be coming off the board soon by making a couple of FutureCasts and sharing other intel related to the recruitments of various in-demand prospects.

RELATED: Recent commitments that could make big impacts as freshmen

*****

2025 Rankings: Rivals150 | Team | Position

2026 Rankings: Rivals150

Transfer Portal: Full coverage | Player ranking | Transfer tracker | Player search

*****

FUTURECAST: Darius Acuff Jr. to Arkansas

This embedded content is not available in your region.

Acuff has been trending toward landing at Arkansas since John Calipari took the reins of the program back in April. Now it seems as though the five-star’s college recruitment could be in its final days, as rumblings about a possible July decision have begun. There’s been no official word from Acuff or his camp about a decision date as of now, but it certainly feels like things are trending in that direction.

The quicker a decision comes, the better it will be for Arkansas, which is seen as the favorite to land the Michigan-born guard despite very real looming threats from Kansas as well as the in-state Wolverines.

SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS WITH ARKANSAS FANS AT HAWGBEAT.COM

*****

BONUS FUTURECAST: Meleek Thomas to UConn

This embedded content is not available in your region.

The defending champs have taken the lead in the race to land five-star guard Meleek Thomas, who says he hopes to have a commitment made prior to the start of his senior season in the Overtime Elite League, for which he left his Pittsburgh high school this summer.

While this recruitment doesn’t seem quite as open-and-shut as Acuff’s at this point, Thomas’ June official visit to Storrs triggered serious buzz of a possible impending commitment in the grassroots basketball world. It’s worth keeping in…

Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/cassidys-takeaways-two-futurecasts-more-001903699.html

Author : NBC Sports

Publish date : 2024-07-10 00:19:03

Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.