Syracuse Basketball: Visit from 4-star, top-25 commit soon would rock

In June, Syracuse basketball welcomed numerous 2022 targets to the Hill for official visits, including four-star wing Justin Taylor, who committed to the Orange at the end of that month.

What I’d love to see is a visit to Central New York soon by another commit of the team’s in the 2022 cycle, fellow four-star wing Kamari Lands.

Lands is a junior at Prolific Prep in Napa Valley, Calif., and he is poised for a stellar senior year there. Prolific Prep has a loaded roster ahead of the 2021-22 stanza, and the team is certainly being viewed as a national-title contender in the upcoming term.

A recent post on Lands’ Instagram page could prove an indication that he is thinking about taking an official visit to Central New York in the near future. We’ll obviously keep tabs on this.

Syracuse basketball 2022 commit Kamari Lands may visit the Hill in the coming months.

The 6-foot-8 Lands, who can reportedly suit up at small forward as well as both guard positions, represents one of the highest-rated recruits for the ‘Cuse in recent program history.

He’s also one of numerous top-flight talents to commit to the Orange between the team’s 2021 and 2022 classes, which is an encouraging sign that Syracuse basketball recruiting efforts are trending in a positive direction.

Not too long ago, Lands performed quite well for the Los Angeles-based Team Why Not during Nike’s Elite Youth Basketball League, which culminated at the 2021 Peach Jam tournament in North Augusta, S.C.

All of the main recruiting services rate Lands as four stars. If he shines in his senior season for Prolific Prep, I believe that he will merit five-star consideration.

Presently, Lands is No. 24 nationally in the 2022 cycle at ESPN, followed by No. 30 at Rivals.com, No. 37 at the industry-generated 247Sports Composite and No. 64 at 247Sports, which is way too low, in my humble opinion. His ESPN ranking is on the cusp of five stars.

Besides Taylor and, hopefully, Lands at some point, other 2022 four-star players to have made recent trips to the ‘Cuse are wing Chris Bunch, power forward Kyle Filipowski, guard Chance Westry, point guard Quadir Copeland, center Donovan Clingan and guard J.J. Starling, who is a Central New York native.