Jeff Capel and the Pitt coaching staff kicked off their week with a coup on the recruiting trail, as Brandon Weston, a blue-chip prospect currently enrolled at Hillcrest Prep in Phoenix, Arizona, placed the program in his top six. The other five schools still in contention to land Weston include Illinois, Michigan, Seton Hall, Wake Forest and Western Illinois.
The 6’5”, 195-pound small forward is a consensus four-star recruit, and each of the three major recruiting outlets ranks him among the top 80 prospects in the 2021 class. ESPN places him at No. 78 in the class, while Rivals has him at No.