Syracuse Basketball: City Rocks guard ‘the new national name,’ per expert

Throughout the spring and extending into the summer, physical and underrated 2024 guard Kayvaun Mulready has performed at a stellar level, and I’d really love to see Syracuse basketball extend him a scholarship offer.

We’ve written a handful of times in the past about the 6-foot-4 Mulready, who reportedly has received some level of interest from the Orange coaching staff at one time or another.

Mulready, for my money, is a four-star, top-100 prospect in the rising-junior class, despite a lack of national rankings at this juncture from the primary recruiting services.

He suits up for the Albany City Rocks in Nike’s EYBL league and is a rising junior at the Worcester Academy in Worcester, Mass.

Amid a recent NCAA live period on the AAU circuit, Mulready put forth some monster EYBL games in Kansas City, Mo., in front of college coaches, earning him a bunch of praise from national analysts and scouts.

Syracuse basketball, I hope, will end up offering 2024 guard Kayvaun Mulready.

According to theseasonticket.com and the EYBL Web site, Mulready had some big outputs during the latest stop in Kansas City. Among them:

Game 1: 26 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists
Game 2: 6 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals
Game 3: 15 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists

To date, Mulready has picked up offers from teams including Boston College, Wake Forest, Providence, Nebraska, Georgia Tech, Iona, St. Bonaventure, Northwestern, Bryant, UMass, Fairfield and Siena, per recruiting services and media reports.

Pro Insight director of scouting Andrew Slater had tweeted out last November that Syracuse basketball had interest in Mulready.

https://twitter.com/Andrew__Slater/status/1463671486816956422

With college coaches able to start making direct contact with 2024 players this past June 15, I had recently opined that I thought Mulready’s list of offers would grow. I also think he will enter the national rankings for this cycle sooner rather than later.

Brandon Jenkins, a 247Sports national analyst, recently wrote an article that included a headline, “KAYVAUN MULREADY IS THE NEW NATIONAL NAME.”

"The analyst wrote in part about Mulready, “There is a lot to like with his mindset of knowing how to play with others as he provides effort guarding the basketball, competing on the glass, and reading penetration drives for freed spot-up kickout jumpers.”"

According to Jenkins, the college squads that Mulready presently communicates with the most are Virginia Tech, Virginia, Pittsburgh, Penn State, Boston College, UConn, Colorado, Georgia Tech, Nebraska and N.C. State.

The ‘Cuse, a few weeks ago, offered 2023 three-star combo guard Elijah Gertrude, who plays for the Albany City Rocks and Hudson Catholic Regional High School in Jersey City, N.J.

Another Albany City Rocks guy, 2024 wing Damarius Owens, got a Syracuse basketball offer in April. He is out of the Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio.