Syracuse Basketball: Brewster pipeline loaded with 4-star, 5-star targets

The Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H., is one of the premier prep-school squads around the country, and in recent years several of its players have gone on to suit up for Syracuse basketball.

These Brewster Academy alumni to play on the Hill include senior shooting guard Buddy Boeheim, C.J. Fair, Chris McCullough and Taurean Thompson, among others.

It’s entirely possible that, in the somewhat near future, the ‘Cuse could witness more Brewster Academy products who elect to don a Syracuse basketball uniform.

By my count, at least four 2023 prospects who attend the Brewster Academy either have scholarship offers from the Orange, or ‘Cuse coaches are displaying interest in them.

All of these 2023 players are in the top-100 national rankings from at least one primary recruiting service. Three of them are in the top 50. Two of them are in the top 20. That’s pretty cool stuff.

Syracuse basketball coaches recently visited these Brewster Academy prospects.

According to several tweets from journalists and national recruiting analysts, Orange coaches visited four Brewster Academy juniors of late, and they are five-star wing Matas Buzelis, five-star wing Taylor Bowen, four-star shooting guard Aaron Clark and four-star combo guard Reid Ducharme.

Mike Waters of Syracuse.com tweeted out that ‘Cuse head coach Jim Boeheim and assistant coach Gerry McNamara recently visited Brewster Academy to see Buzelis, Bowen and Ducharme.

Additionally, Boeheim visited Clark, according to a tweet from 247Sports national analyst Dushawn London. The 6-foot-6 Clark, not too long ago, transferred to the Brewster Academy from the St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, N.J.

A top-50 prospect in the 2023 cycle, according to the industry-generated 247Sports Composite, Clark holds offers from high-majors such as Mike Hopkins-led Washington, VCU, Xavier, Marquette, Kansas State, Rutgers, Iowa, LSU, Creighton, TCU, St. John’s and Seton Hall, per various recruiting Web sites.

The 6-foot-10 Buzelis, a top-10 player according to ESPN, has an offer list that includes North Carolina, Kansas, Florida State, Illinois, Florida, Purdue, Oklahoma, Arizona, UCLA, Maryland, Connecticut, DePaul, Providence, Wake Forest, Nebraska and Western Illinois.

The 6-foot-8 Bowen is a top-20 prospect in the 2023 class, per the 247Sports Composite. Among the teams that have offered him are Dayton, Marquette, Southern California, Maryland, Penn State, Connecticut, LSU, Arkansas, Providence, Rutgers, Iowa, Vermont and George Mason.

Finally, the 6-foot-6 Ducharme is a top-100 player, according to Rivals.com. His offers include from UConn, Providence, Stanford, Iowa, UMass, DePaul, Harvard and Brown.

All of these Brewster Academy guys are excellent prospects, and Syracuse basketball would prove lucky to land one or two of them.