With five of 247 Sports’ Top 25 2023 recruits committed, it would have been reasonable to think Duke’s Jon Scheyer had already finalized his second recruiting class. That changed when Duke offered Xavier Booker last week in the hopes of securing a sixth member of what could be a historic group.
Until that point, Booker’s recruitment was a largely mid-western affair, with Michigan State seen as the favorite for his services (Spartan fans see him in the mold of Jaren Jackson Jr., who impressed in his one year at Michigan State before excelling in the NBA alongside Ja Morant in Memphis), and Indiana, Ohio State, and Illinois also pursuing him strongly.