Syracuse Basketball: Slew of visits culminates with 2022 four-star wing

Syracuse basketball has hosted a string of official visits with stellar 2022 prospects in the month of June. That calendar will culminate, at least for the month of June, with a visit to the Hill by 2022 four-star target Chris Bunch.

The 6-foot-7 wing, a junior at De La Salle High School in Concord, Calif., is slated to make a trip to Central New York on June 28-30, according to recent media reports.

He is a top-100 prospect in his class, according to numerous recruiting services. And multiple national analysts have said of late that Bunch is poised for a massive rankings jump in the future.

He boasts a range of high-major scholarship offers, more than two-dozen in fact. That being said, 247Sports national basketball director Eric Bossi recently wrote a piece in which he detailed that the Orange, Florida State, Oregon, Seton Hall and USC were recruiting Bunch the hardest, although that of course could change as his recruitment carries onward.

Additional offers for Bunch have come in from teams such as Arkansas, Ole Miss, San Diego State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Maryland, Rutgers, Creighton, Iowa State, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Massachusetts, per his Twitter page and bios on recruiting Web sites.

Syracuse basketball is welcoming four-star target Chris Bunch to town.

Toward the beginning of June, four-star power forward Kyle Filipowski and four-star wing Justin Taylor took official visits to the ‘Cuse. Others to travel to the Hill include four-star center Donovan Clingan and four-star point guard Chance Westry.

Most recently, four-star point guard Quadir Copeland and J.J. Starling, a fellow four-star point guard and CNY native, had their official visits to the Orange program.

By my count, that’s official visits from seven elite 2022 players, and hopefully those trips to Syracuse basketball will go a long way toward some of these guys committing to the ‘Cuse.

As for Bunch, he received an offer from the Orange in April of 2020. His recruitment, at least as it pertains to Syracuse basketball, has flown a bit under the radar when compared to other ‘Cuse 2022 targets.

I’ve likened Bunch’s recruiting process, in some ways, to that of four-star wing Kamari Lands, a junior at Prolific Prep in Napa Valley, Calif., who gave a verbal commitment to the Orange this past April.

However, I think that the ‘Cuse has an excellent chance at picking up Bunch. He’s spoken highly of the team, and more and more Syracuse basketball fans on social media and in chat rooms are believing that Bunch will eventually don an Orange uniform.