Syracuse Basketball: Elijah Fisher top 5, G.G. Jackson top 30 in rankings

Syracuse basketball targets Elijah Fisher, G.G. Jackson highly rated in new 2023 national ratings.

Syracuse basketball, so far, has offered scholarships to five high-school players in the 2023 class, and two of them made the cut in the first national rankings of this cycle by recruiting service Rivals.com. They are five-star Elijah Fisher and four-star G.G. Jackson.

Fisher, a 6-foot-7 wing who plays balls in Canada, is deemed by the majority of recruiting Web sites as a top-five prospect in the 2023 class, at least as it pertains to the recruiting services that rank Canadian players.

Rivals.com has Fisher at No. 4 overall in its inaugural ratings of the 2023 cycle. He is a sophomore at the Crestwood Preparatory College in Toronto, Ontario, and the Orange offered a scholarship to him last summer.

Some recruiting analysts, by the way, have opined that Fisher could ultimately contend for the No. 1 ranking in this class, which speaks to his talent level and why ‘Cuse fans would love to see him on the Hill down the road.

Meanwhile, Jackson is a 6-foot-8 power forward and a sophomore at Ridge View High School in Columbia, S.C. Rivals.com arranges him at No. 26 in its initial national ratings for the 2023 class.

Jackson, who received an offer from Syracuse basketball last summer as well, also recently landed an offer from former Big East Conference rival Georgetown.

Additionally, he’s reportedly garnering interest from a blue-blood program in fellow Atlantic Coast Conference squad North Carolina, according to recruiting guru Jake Weingarten, the founder of Stockrisers.com.

Over at 247Sports, Jackson is rated four stars and No. 29 nationally in the 2023 class, as well as No. 4 at power forward and No. 2 in the state of South Carolina.

Fisher, on the other hand, is a five-star prospect per 247Sports, as well as No. 3 overall and No. 1 at shooting guard within this cycle.

Besides Fisher and Jackson, in the 2023 class, the Orange has offered 6-foot-1 point guard Aden Holloway with the Covenant Day School in Matthews, N.C., 6-foot-8 guard Matas Buzelis from the Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H., and 6-foot-7 wing Gavin Griffiths out of the Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford, Conn.