Syracuse basketball offers Gavin Griffiths, Donovan Clingan AAU partner

Syracuse basketball continues to expand its offer sheet in the 2023 class, pledging a scholarship to promising prospect Gavin Griffiths.

Gavin Griffiths is a talented wing in the 2023 class who runs on the AAU circuit with 2022 four-star center Donovan Clingan, and now they both have a scholarship offer from Syracuse basketball.

For some time, the Orange has made the 7-foot-1 Clingan, a junior at Bristol Central High School in Bristol, Conn., a high-priority target within the ‘Cuse 2022 recruiting cycle.

Clingan also competes for AAU squad Team Spartans, a Boston-based group. One of his colleagues on Team Spartans is Griffiths, a 2023 shooting guard/small forward. By the way, here’s a recent article on this AAU crew.

Griffiths, a 6-foot-7 sophomore who attends the Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford, Conn., landed his offer from Syracuse basketball earlier this week, he disclosed on his Twitter page.

Per his bio on the Verbal Commits Web site, as well as his Twitter account, Griffiths’ other offers to date, besides from the Orange, are from Massachusetts and Siena.

Syracuse basketball has offered to 2023 wing Gavin Griffiths, an AAU teammate of high-priority 2022 target Donovan Clingan.

Griffiths isn’t currently ranked by the primary recruiting services on a national scale, but from what I’ve read about him, his recruitment is just starting to take off.

That he and Clingan, a top-50 player across the country in the 2022 class, suit up together for Team Spartans could prove beneficial as Syracuse basketball attempts to secure either or both of these prospects.

With the Griffiths development, the ‘Cuse has offered four high-school players in the 2023 recruiting cycle, at least as far as I can tell. The others are five-star wing Elijah Fisher with Crestwood Preparatory College in Toronto, Ontario, four-star power forward G.G. Jackson out of Ridge View High School in Columbia, S.C., and point guard Aden Holloway, who attends the Covenant Day School in Matthews, N.C.

In the inaugural 247Sports national rankings for the 2023 class that recently got disclosed, Fisher is No. 3 and Jackson is No. 29.