Ranking recruits is not an exact science. If it was, former Duke basketball UFO Zion Williamson would have been the unanimous No. 1 prospect from the 2019 class (one ranking inexcusably had him as low as No. 7).
Basketball is an art form, meaning a player’s on-court beauty is in the eye of the beholder (that being said, it’s unfathomable for anyone to have not instantly realized the unparalleled beauty of a 285-pound unexplainable flying object with guard-like speed, linebacker-like fire in the belly, and superhero-like strength).
The latest examples of how one set of “expert” eyeballs can judge ballers differently from another set came in the form of updated rankings this week from the two juggernauts of recruiting sites: 247Sports and Rivals.