Syracuse basketball showing interest in elite sophomore point guard

A stellar point guard in the 2024 class is receiving offers and interest from a range of big-time college teams, including Syracuse basketball, according to a recruiting service.

Curtis Givens III, a 6-foot-2 point guard, is a sophomore who attends the Memphis University School, a prep school located in Memphis, Tenn.

Some of the primary recruiting services haven’t come out with national rankings for the 2024 cycle, but based on his early offer sheet, Givens can flat-out play.

According to his bio on recruiting Web sites, Givens has scholarship offers from high-major programs including Memphis, Maryland, Georgetown, Illinois, St. John’s and Florida.

Syracuse basketball has interest in an excellent 2024 point guard.

According to Givens’ bio on the 247Sports Web site, among those squads displaying interest in him are the Orange, Kansas, Houston, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Oklahoma State and Vanderbilt.

That’s a pretty impressive range of suitors for Givens, who is only a sophomore and will earn many, many more offers throughout his recruiting process. Hopefully, one of those offers will arrive for Givens from Syracuse basketball.

Orange coaches are getting into a groove with their recruiting efforts in the 2024 cycle. In August, the ‘Cuse made its first offer within this class, to Donnie Freeman from the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

Freeman is a 6-foot-9 wing in his sophomore year at St. John’s College High School in the District of Columbia. Syracuse basketball coaches offered him in August at the team’s annual Elite Camp.

When ESPN recently updated its national ratings for the 2024 cycle, Freeman checked in as four stars and No. 20 overall. He has a handful of other offers, including from Maryland, Georgetown, Virginia Tech, Xavier and George Mason.

Additionally, the ‘Cuse is showing interest in 2024 five-star power forward Derik Queen from Baltimore. The 6-foot-8 Queen is a top-five overall player in this recruiting class, according to ESPN.

He is a sophomore at the powerhouse Montverde Academy in Montverde, Fla., which is one of the best prep-school teams nationwide and should enter the 2021-22 stanza as the pre-season No. 1 group across the country.

As we noted in a column not too long ago, Queen detailed his recruitment in a recent interview with Pro Insight. He did mention that he is garnering interest from Syracuse basketball, along with Florida State and Pittsburgh.

His offers include from Indiana, Auburn, DePaul, Maryland, Texas, Virginia Tech, Georgetown, LSU and Arizona State.