Syracuse basketball high-priority 2022 target Brandon Huntley-Hatfield is one of the elite prospects across the country in this cycle, however, he is no longer a consensus top-10 recruit.
The 6-foot-9 Huntley-Hatfield, a junior at Scotland Campus in Scotland, Pa., just received a scholarship offer from the Orange last month, but the ‘Cuse is in his top six, along with Ole Miss, Kansas, Wake Forest, Tennessee and Auburn.
Rivals.com has updated its national ratings for the 2022 class, a list that features the top-150 players. Huntley-Hatfield is still highly ranked, although he did slide six placements, from No. 8 overall to No. 14 nationally.
In these newly released ratings from Rivals.com, the five-star Huntley-Hatfield is also noted as the No. 2 power forward in all of high-school basketball within the 2022 cycle.
His new rankings from Rivals.com don’t in any way diminish how talented of a player Huntley-Hatfield is, yet it’s worth passing along where he stands in the most recent ratings from this recruiting service.
See where Syracuse basketball five-star target Brandon Huntley-Hatfield is rated elsewhere.
Huntley-Hatfield is keeping his options open as it pertains to possibly heading straight from high school to the NBA, assuming that is a feasible strategy.
That being said, even though other college teams in his top six have recruited Huntley-Hatfield longer than the Orange, he has spoken quite highly of head coach Jim Boeheim and the ‘Cuse program of late.
Huntley-Hatfield says that Boeheim and his assistants consistently make communication with the high-school prospect, and Huntley-Hatfield appreciates that Syracuse basketball isn’t recruiting any other 2022 players at his position.
Huntley-Hatfield is a five-star prospect from Rivals.com and other recruiting services. ESPN has him the highest, at No. 4 overall in the 2022 class, followed by the 247Sports Composite at No. 5, 247Sports at No. 7, and Prep Hoops at No. 7.
He’s also the No. 1 power forward and No. 1 high-school prospect in Pennsylvania within the 2022 cycle, according to both the 247Sports Composite and 247Sports.