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2023 Recruiting. Orig Post Updated Jan 1. ZERO Scholarships Currently Available. 34 Offers So Far (incl. Pryce Sandfort, Owen Freeman, Brock Harding)

Here are the 10 prospects Fran has offered who are still undecided.

4 of the 10 have visited Iowa City.


(Offer #32) Drew Fielder (Iowa offered August 30, 2022)




(Offer #30) Miles Heide (Iowa offered June 28, 2022)




(Offer #28) Kaden Cooper (Iowa offered June 7, 2022)




(Offer #24) Papa Kante (Iowa offered on Jan 27, 2022)




(Offer #23) Boden Kapke (Iowa offered on Jan 19, 2022)

He visited on October 16, 2021 (Purdue game)

Boden, Taison Chatman and Pryce Sandfort were teammates on D1 Minnesota 17U.




(Offer #19) Onyekachi Nzeh (Kachi Nzeh) (Iowa offered on Sep 27, 2021)




(Offer #17) Parker Friedrichsen (Iowa offered on July 25, 2021)

He visited on October 16, 2021

He originally had committed to Oklahoma State.




(Offer #10) Aaron Clark (Iowa offered on June 15,2021)

Aaron, Carey Booth, Matas Buzelis, Reid Ducharme, JP Estrella and Taylor Bowen all will be attending the same high school (Brewster Academy) in 2022-2023 as 2022 commit Dasonte Bowen.




(Offer #7) T.J. Power (Iowa offered on Aug 27, 2020)

He officially visited the weekend of Oct 8, 2021. He unofficially visited on June 10, 2022.

According to Rivals, Iowa is the first school he visited.

TJ (2023), Dasonte Bowen (2022), Josh Ogundele (2020) & Iowa Assistant Coach Courtney Eldridge (1998) are all part of BABC (Boston Amateur Basketball Club).




(Offer #6) Taison Chatman (Iowa offered on Aug 13, 2020)

He was quoted as saying that he and his dad visited on a Friday for the preseason opener (assuming this was Fri, Nov 5 vs Slippery Rock).

Taison, Boden Kapke and Pryce Sandfort were teammates on D1 Minnesota 17U.

 
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Franisdaman said:
Here are the 11 prospects Fran has offered who are still undecided.

5 of the 11 have visited Iowa City.


(Offer #32) Drew Fielder (Iowa offered August 30, 2022)

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(Offer #30) Miles Heide (Iowa offered June 28, 2022)

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(Offer #28) Kaden Cooper (Iowa offered June 7, 2022)

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(Offer #24) Papa Kante (Iowa offered on Jan 27, 2022)

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(Offer #23) Boden Kapke (Iowa offered on Jan 19, 2022)

He visited on October 16, 2021 (Purdue game)

Boden, Taison Chatman and Pryce Sandfort were teammates on D1 Minnesota 17U.

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(Offer #19) Onyekachi Nzeh (Kachi Nzeh) (Iowa offered on Sep 27, 2021)

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(Offer #17) Parker Friedrichsen (Iowa offered on July 25, 2021)

He visited on October 16, 2021

He originally had committed to Oklahoma State.

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(Offer #14) Matas Buzelis (Iowa offered on June 15, 2021)

Matas, Carey Booth, Reid Ducharme, Aaron Clark, JP Estrella and Taylor Bowen all are attending the same high school (Brewster Academy) in 2022-2023 as 2022 commit Dasonte Bowen.

He visited on October 16, 2021

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(Offer #10) Aaron Clark (Iowa offered on June 15,2021)

Aaron, Carey Booth, Matas Buzelis, Reid Ducharme, JP Estrella and Taylor Bowen all will be attending the same high school (Brewster Academy) in 2022-2023 as 2022 commit Dasonte Bowen.

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(Offer #7) T.J. Power (Iowa offered on Aug 27, 2020)

He officially visited the weekend of Oct 8, 2021. He unofficially visited on June 10, 2022.

According to Rivals, Iowa is the first school he visited.

TJ (2023), Dasonte Bowen (2022), Josh Ogundele (2020) & Iowa Assistant Coach Courtney Eldridge (1998) are all part of BABC (Boston Amateur Basketball Club).

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(Offer #6) Taison Chatman (Iowa offered on Aug 13, 2020)

He was quoted as saying that he and his dad visited on a Friday for the preseason opener (assuming this was Fri, Nov 5 vs Slippery Rock).

Taison, Boden Kapke and Pryce Sandfort were teammates on D1 Minnesota 17U.

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FWIW, Buzelis committed to the G League awhile ago. Rivals just never updated it.

 
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Iowa offered Drew Fielder 6 days ago, on August 30, 2022. He was offer #32 of 32.

The Southern California kid just got done visiting USC today. It's been reported that he will take an official visit to Providence September 16-18.





 
Probably an unpopular sentiment, but if McCaffery can't sign a real game changer like Power at this point, just bank the schollie. We don't really need another bench player and Fran seems to be getting closer and closer to actually landing one of these big fish. Maybe next year.
 
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Ronman said:
Probably an unpopular sentiment, but if McCaffery can't sign a real game changer like Power at this point, just bank the schollie. We don't really need another bench player and Fran seems to be getting closer and closer to actually landing one of these big fish. Maybe next year.
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I hear what you are saying....and I think it's valid. I also think that when looking at the next year, we have a number of roster openings. SO...with Fran's eye for talent I have no problem if he finds a recruit that isn't highly rated, that he thinks would add to this class.

And yes....he does appear to be getting closer and closer to adding one of the top recruits.
 
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Ronman said:
Probably an unpopular sentiment, but if McCaffery can't sign a real game changer like Power at this point, just bank the schollie. We don't really need another bench player and Fran seems to be getting closer and closer to actually landing one of these big fish. Maybe next year.
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Pryce Sandfort is in the category of game-changer. There are very few kids out there with his skillset.
 
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Franisdaman said:
Yep. Estrella to Tennessee.

Unfortunately, it looks like we will finish 2nd for TJ Power as well (Duke appears to be the leader there).

But don't forget; Fran has landed 3 good players so far for this class. Officially he only has 1 scholarship left to hand out (but most likely he will have another when Kris declares for the NBA Draft and/or someone else leaves the program early).
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Three solid, but not elite players. It's so frustrating because I feel like the staff works so hard and just can't get the big ones. Maybe it is an "Iowa" thing.
 
Hawkfan_08 said:
Three solid, but not elite players. It's so frustrating because I feel like the staff works so hard and just can't get the big ones. Maybe it is an "Iowa" thing.
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There's few players that become a top 5 NBA draft pick, and very few 5 star players can say they were drafted in the top 5 in the NBA draft, so saying the Iowa staff works hard but never gets the big ones can't be said any more.
Keegan may not have been rated a 5 star player but even the rating services doesn't get them all right. Keegan proved them all wrong....and Kris may follow suit.
 
IllQChawk said:
There's few players that become a top 5 NBA draft pick, and very few 5 star players can say they were drafted in the top 5 in the NBA draft, so saying the Iowa staff works hard but never gets the big ones can't be said any more.
Keegan may not have been rated a 5 star player but even the rating services doesn't get them all right. Keegan proved them all wrong....and Kris may follow suit.
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You are right on this. It speaks to Fran's eye for talent and his development of that talent.

However, I'm talking major recruiting battles. Although the sites certainly get them wrong at times, 5* guys seem to usually be pretty freaking good.
 
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Onyekachi (Kachi) Nzeh was offer #19 of 32 for the 2023 class. Iowa offered on Sep 27, 2021.

It's been reported that Kachi will be visiting Iowa City next month.

Here is a Dec 25, 2021 article written by Jack McCaffery. As you will read, when Kachi was a sophomore in high school, he was running track and only playing "a little" basketball.

The article says he is 6'8 with a 7-foot-3 wing-span. Rivals, of course, lists him at 6'9.

The story:

www.delcotimes.com

Upper Darby’s Nzeh on fast track from runner to national hoops prospect

NEWTOWN — Kachi Nzeh was running track and playing a little basketball as a sophomore at Upper Darby High when he realized he had to make a choice. He could continue to run in circles, or he could …
www.delcotimes.com www.delcotimes.com


 
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I do think that it will be very hard for Iowa to recruit Top 50 players moving forward unless they are inside the state. Those level of recruits will ALWAYS elicit NIL money at some point, in addition to Blue Blood offers. Very hard to overcome despite all the hard work Fran and staff did.

What makes it worse is that Fran was in on them BEFORE they were Top 50-60 players, and then as they rose in the rankings it killed our chances.
 
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We have lost out in the transfer portal because of NIL.

I believe JP is the first high school prospect Fran has lost out on most likely because of NIL.

The joys of recruiting.

This is from tonight. I wonder what exactly was in that "bag."


 
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Hawkfan_08 said:
Three solid, but not elite players. It's so frustrating because I feel like the staff works so hard and just can't get the big ones. Maybe it is an "Iowa" thing.
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I think it's several things:

* NIL. We couldn't compete with what Tennessee offered.

* Championship history. Sure, we just won a B1G Tournament Championship, but when prospects visit Duke, they take pictures with National Championship trophies in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

* Fan support and game day atmosphere. Students at Duke and at other universities camp out for prime seats. Compare that to Iowa students & the Iowa student section. I think we were lucky to land Cooper Koch because he commented several times how impressive the game day atmospheres were at Mackey and at the Kohl Center. Cooper was at the Kohl Center when Wisconsin clinched the B1G regular season championship and he stormed the court with the fans.
 
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be even a bigger deal if he's already committed to Iowa when he visits?

He's announcing his commitment this afternoon
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interesting. he only visited 2 of his 4 final schools. On Sep 3 he was at Xavier. On Aug 26 he was at St Louis. He did not visit Iowa or VCU.

he was supposed to visit Iowa sometime next month.




 
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I think it's several things:

* NIL. We couldn't compete with what Tennessee offered.

* Championship history. Sure, we just won a B1G Tournament Championship, but when prospects visit Duke, they take pictures with National Championship trophies in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

* Fan support and game day atmosphere. Students at Duke and at other universities camp out for prime seats. Compare that to Iowa students & the Iowa student section. I think we were lucky to land Cooper Koch because he commented several times how impressive the game day atmospheres were at Mackey and at the Kohl Center. Cooper was at the Kohl Center when Wisconsin clinched the B1G regular season championship and he stormed the court with the fans.
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Yeah, those are all fair but that's what makes things so hard. You have to get the guys to win the trophies. We did win one last year and it was awesome but looking at Duke's 5 * lineup... I just get jealous. That's nothing to take away from the kids that want to be Hawks though. Still will support them no matter what.
 
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Ronman said:
It will be a major surprise to me if he gets inland as far as Iowa.
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Do you think Fran should just not try to recruit players from far away such as Washington DC, Boston, New York and London? Because we have players on the roster from these places now. Is California too far away to try? What would you suggest?
 
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Iowa in to see Fielder this morning.
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It will be a major surprise to me if he gets inland as far as Iowa.
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Since Fran offered Drew just 10 days ago (on Aug 30), I like our chances. ;)

And his offer list is not all that "great," so who knows. There's no blue blood in the mix. Syracuse offered after Iowa. Rivals lists his other Power 6 offers as Miami (FL), Maryland, Nebraska, Washington State, Creighton, USC and Arizona State.
 
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Franisdaman said:
Since Fran offered Drew just 10 days ago (on Aug 30), I like our chances. ;)

And his offer list is not all that "great," so who knows. There's no blue blood in the mix. Syracuse offered after Iowa. Rivals lists his other Power 6 offers as Miami (FL), Maryland, Nebraska, Washington State, Creighton, USC and Arizona State.
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According to Drew's own Twitter, Rivals also is missing his offers from: Boston College, St John's, Providence, and TCU. He's reportedly visiting Providence later this month.
 
HawkHoops80 said:
According to Drew's own Twitter, Rivals also is missing his offers from: Boston College, St John's, Providence, and TCU. He's reportedly visiting Providence later this month.
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I posted on Sep 1 that it was being reported that morning that he would take an official visit to Providence September 16-18.

I have not seen any other visits lined up.
 
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I posted this story on Aug 30 but in case anyone missed it, some interesting points on Drew Fielder:

* He dealt with a back injury that kept him out for 6 months. Drew said that I couldn’t play and nobody knew about me, so it was just a matter of time.

* In July, Providence, USC and St Mary's were the only schools heavily involved. He's visited USC. Next weekend he's visiting Providence.

* The story lists him at 6'10

* He has a high motor, running the floor at a great pace, on top of being physical, and a smooth offensive game. Fielder thrives around the rim, but what adds to that, is his touch from beyond the arc.

* Fran has a relationship with the high school coach so maybe that will pay off. Jaxon Kohler (Class of 2022), who Iowa offered, goes to the same high school.




LINK to that Story:

stockrisers.com

Drew Fielder is breaking out in the 2023 class, talks offers, game

The West Coast has another dominant big man approaching... his name is Drew Fielder
stockrisers.com stockrisers.com
 
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