Syracuse Basketball: 5-star Brandon Huntley-Hatfield has new ACC suitor

Some recruiting analysts have said of late that Syracuse basketball is in a great position to possibly land elite 2022 prospect Brandon Huntley-Hatfield, although it seems that a new team has entered the fray for the five-star power forward.

Jason Jordan, the director of basketball recruiting for Sports Illustrated, tweeted out, “Miami has jumped in the mix for 2022 F Brandon Huntley-Hatfield.”

I looked around on several of the main recruiting Web sites, and I’m not seeing anything on them about fellow Atlantic Coast Conference member Miami having offered a scholarship to Huntley-Hatfield.

However, this doesn’t mean that the Hurricanes haven’t offered him. Jordan is one of the best in the business, so it does appear that Miami at the very least is showing interest in Huntley-Hatfield, who is rated in the top 10 nationally in his class by the bevy of recruiting services.

This is an interesting development in the recruitment of Huntley-Hatfield. The Orange coaching staff offered him last December, and Huntley-Hatfield then included the ‘Cuse in his top six, along with Ole Miss, Kansas, Wake Forest, Tennessee and Auburn.

Syracuse basketball 2022 target Brandon Huntley-Hatfield has a new interested squad.

Huntley-Hatfield, a junior at Scotland Campus in Scotland, Pa., recently penned a blog post for SI All-American, in which he said, “Tennessee, Syracuse, Ole Miss and Auburn have been keeping in touch with me the most consistently right now.”

Southeastern Conference member Ole Miss has gotten buzz as it pertains to Huntley-Hatfield for a while now. Ole Miss has landed numerous analyst predictions for Huntley-Hatfield on both the 247Sports Web site and Rivals.com.

Jerry Meyer, a 247Sports national analyst, recently wrote in an article that he is “slightly leaning” toward Ole Miss for Huntley-Hatfield, “but Syracuse is definitely right in there with Ole Miss. It looks like they are the two strongest schools with him now.”

Since the Orange offered Huntley-Hatfield, who is the No. 1 power forward and the No. 1 player in Pennsylvania in the 2022 cycle, he has spoken positively about the ‘Cuse coaching staff and the program in general.

He would prove a game-changer for the Syracuse basketball 2022 class, and if he committed to the Orange, Huntley-Hatfield would represent one of the highest-rated recruits for the team in recent history.

But competition for Huntley-Hatfield is fierce, and we will have to wait and see how Miami will now factor into the equation.