Elite hoops guard commits to Vols
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🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from the Fort Rucker Sun Room Alternate Studio) and Grant Ramey (from the GoVols247 Blount County Satellite Office in Maryville) convened through the majesty of Al Gore’s Internets to break down a huge day for the Tennessee basketball program.
Elite shooting guard Keon Johnson from The Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tenn., announced his commitment to the Vols, giving Rick Barnes and his staff a second elite commitment in what’s shaping up to be a blockbuster 2020 class.
Johnson — the nation’s No. 31 overall prospect in the industry-generated 247Sports Composite, and the nation’s No. 27 overall prospect according to 247Sports analysts — ultimately chose Tennessee over Ohio State but could have gone anywhere in the country. He’s been on the national radar for years and his stock has continued to rise, especially after a dominant performance at a recent Team USA event.
Tennessee now has two elite prospects in the 2020 class — a class Barnes and his staff pegged as potentially a special one not long after they arrived in Knoxville. Versatile Florida wing Corey Walker — the nation’s No. 34 overall prospect in the 247Sports Composite — committed to the Vols on March 3, and Tennessee is still in on some of the nation’s biggest prospects in that class.
What does the Johnson commitment — and the 2020 class in general — mean to Barnes and Vols? That’s the main subject of this breaking-news pod.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, I do like lanes. Sup y'all. West Rucker here from Go Valls 24-7 welcoming you to the |
| 0:18.5 | Go-Valls 24-7 podcast got another one of our breaking news additions here for you. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm joined in the Blunt County Satellite Office, of course, |
| 0:26.3 | by Grant Ramey. |
| 0:27.0 | And Grant Ramey, it is football camp time in Tennessee, |
| 0:31.3 | and you and I are about to talk basketball. Why are we talking |
| 0:33.6 | basketball? We're talking about basketball and the only thing that could |
| 0:38.0 | interrupt football camp news and stuff like that. It's an elite basketball commitment four-star shooting guard |
| 0:44.4 | Keon Johnson commits to Tennessee. On Tuesday, picking Tennessee over Ohio State, |
| 0:49.9 | he had Virginia as is one of his finalists not too long ago and another really |
| 0:54.9 | really good basketball player that that Rick Barnes is adding to this |
| 0:57.8 | 20 class he's the number one player in the state he's the number 27 overall |
| 1:02.1 | player in the class to tell you kind of context where how highly rated he is as a four star according to 24-7. |
| 1:10.0 | He's the third rated highest rated four star in the top two four seven so he's |
| 1:14.8 | he's an inching closer and closer to a five star and this is another recruitment |
| 1:19.3 | where they've just played the long game with this kid they've been after him |
| 1:22.0 | consistently since he popped up on the radar is one of the elite prospects. |
| 1:27.0 | In this class a couple years ago, multiple unofficial visits in Oxford took an official visit in October, |
| 1:33.5 | and they played the long game, and it worked. |
| 1:36.0 | And they're adding him to a class that already includes |
| 1:38.1 | Corey Walker, the four-star small forward |
| 1:40.9 | out of Jacksonville who's been committed since March and they got two elite basketball players and they're still chasing more. |
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