Class of 2017 power forward and longtime Marquette target Xavier Tillman announced today that he will be taking his talent to Michigan State, turning down Marquette and Purdue.
Marquette put a full-court press on Tillman’s recruitment, stopping in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the first day of the fall recruiting period and later visited him the day before his official visit to Michigan State.
At Michigan State, Tillman will join AAU teammate and 26th-ranked recruit Jaren Jackson, Jr. Some speculated that Jackson’s commitment would lessen Tillman’s interest since they play the same position, but Tillman told MLive that the commitment had “no effect.