to follow up on
@MomentInTheSun 's post.
TOOS just posted this:
AUBURN, Alabama — Auburn football’s annual Big Cat Weekend starts next week.
It’s the biggest recruiting weekend of the year for the football program, and usually leads to several commitments over the summer months. It’s a weekend filled with fun activities and players changing their minds about the Tigers.
Maybe the Auburn basketball program needs to think about calling its first weekend in June its Big Baller Weekend. That seems to be the approach coach
Bruce Pearl is taking this year, Auburn Undercover has learned.
At least seven recruits, including three 5-star prospects and three more players rated as the top player in their respective states, will visit with and coaches during a weekend of visits June 1 in Auburn, Auburn Undercover has learned. More players are expected to be added to the list in the coming days.
The stellar group is led by 5-star point guard
Sharife Cooper, 5-star shooting guard
Brandon Boston Jr. and 5-star center
Walker Kessler. Cooper and Boston have emerged as Auburn’s top two targets over the last calendar year, with the two players out of Georgia garnering offers from the bluest of blue-blood programs, with the primary threat to Auburn being SEC rival Kentucky.
Auburn, fresh off its first Final Four appearance, is on a roll on the recruiting trail garnering interest from blue-chip prospects across the country, and not just in the Alabama and Georgia region, where the Tigers continue to focus most of their energy on the recruiting trail.
Kessler is an interesting prospect because of his strong ties to Georgia, where head coach
Tom Crean is earning commitments from blue-chip prospects of late. Kessler’s father, brother and uncle played basketball at Georgia, and his mother attended Georgia in college. The prospect is an unabashed fan of Georgia sports, but has become a huge target for Pearl to try to convince to come to Auburn, where a low-post presence may be missing in 2020 and beyond.
Meanwhile, the No. 1 player in the state of Kentucky, Alabama and Mississippi are set to visit as well.
Two players in the class of 2021 are scheduled to visit, including 4-star point guard
Daeshun Ruffin, who is the No. 1 player in Mississippi. He resides at Callaway High in Jackson. Forward
Terran Williams out of Lee High in Marianna, Arkansas is not yet rated by major recruiting services for the class of 2021, but he will also visit, Auburn Undercover has learned.
3-star shooting guard
Justin Powell is the state of Kentucky’s No. 1 player in the class of 2020. 3-star power forward Ronnie Gordon out of Lanier High in Montgomery is the No. 1 player in Alabama, and is actually rated a 4-star prospect by 247Sports analysts.