Syracuse Basketball: Here’s why 4-star Chance Westry visit is big-time

Syracuse basketball high-priority 2022 target Chance Westry is scheduled to make a trip to the Hill beginning this Thursday, according to multiple reports, and that’s a really encouraging sign for the Orange’s chances.

The 6-foot-5 Westry, a four-star combo guard and consensus top-55 prospect in his class, is slated to be on the ‘Cuse campus starting on June 17 and going through the weekend, per an article by Mike McAllister, the publisher of SyracuseOnSI. Pro Insight director of scouting Andrew Slater first reported the Westry development via Twitter.

We discussed in a recent column whether Westry, who received a scholarship offer from the Orange nearly two years ago, would end up traveling to Central New York.

He’s already made official visits to Southeastern Conference member Auburn and Big Ten Conference participant Nebraska. The NCAA allows five official visits per recruiting cycle.

Syracuse basketball is welcoming four-star Chance Westry to the Hill.

Not only has the ‘Cuse been recruiting Westry for a while now, but there appeared to be some buzz between the team and this elite 2022 player last year.

The rumblings that I heard on social media and in chat rooms is that Westry potentially even thought about committing to Syracuse basketball in the early part of 2020, but this is speculation and obviously didn’t happen.

Regardless, that Westry has elected to make one of his five officials visits to the Orange is exciting. He wouldn’t waste an official visit on Syracuse basketball if he didn’t have solid interest in the program.

Of course, this trip in no way signifies that Westry will pledge his services to the ‘Cuse, but I think that if he didn’t take an official visit to CNY, that would have provided some indication that perhaps Westry wasn’t going to select Syracuse basketball.

Westry, one of the top combo guards in the country within the 2022 class, has a boatload of high-major offers. He recently told Tipton Edits that the eight teams recruiting him the hardest were the Orange, LSU, Nebraska, Auburn, Maryland, Florida State, Marquette and Connecticut.

The junior recently left the Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, Calif., and Westry moved back to Pennsylvania, where he is a native of Harrisburg, according to reports.

On the AAU circuit, Westry suits up for the New York City-based NY Renaissance. One of his teammates there is another Syracuse basketball 2022 target, four-star power forward Kyle Filipowski.