BATON ROUGE – Coach Will Wade and the LSU Compliance office announced on Wednesday that it had received and confirmed the national letter-of-intent signing papers from nationally-ranked point guard Ja’Vonte Smart of Scotlandville Magnet High School in Baton Rouge.
Smart is the two time winner of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Insurance/Louisiana Sports Writers Association Mr. Basketball award as well as the Gatorade Louisiana Boys Basketball Player of the Year. He was MVP of the Louisiana Sports Writers Association Class 5A team for the second time as well.
The four-star point guard, who is ranked No.