Syracuse basketball enters recruitment of 4-star PG who just won AAU title

Syracuse basketball has extended a scholarship offer to a talented and fast-rising point guard in the rising-senior class, according to recruiting services and media reports.

That offer by the Orange coaching staff recently went out to the 6-foot-4 Mike Williams, who is a member of the 2023 recruiting cycle and was ranked as a four-star prospect at the time of this writing by the industry-generated 247Sports Composite.

Williams attends the Bishop Walsh School in Cumberland, Md., which is one of 10 squads in the loaded National Interscholastic Basketball Conference (“NIBC”), a super league that includes top prep schools and independent basketball academies.

In grassroots basketball, Williams recently helped lead the Baltimore-based Team Thrill out of the Under Armour Association league to the UAA championship in the main division. Last weekend, Team Thrill defeated the Los Angeles-based West Coast Elite in the UAA final, 51-49, in Bedford Park, Ill.

Syracuse basketball has gotten into the fray for 4-star point guard Mike Williams.

Williams is listed as either a point guard or a shooting guard by the primary recruiting services, so I guess we should consider him a versatile combo guard.

According to his Twitter page, recruiting services and reports, other teams that have offered Williams include Illinois, Houston, Clemson, Maryland, LSU, DePaul, VCU, George Mason, George Washington, Mount St. Mary’s, the College of Charleston, Towson, UMass, East Carolina and McNeese State.

Not too long ago, before his Syracuse basketball offer was made public, Williams told 247Sports national analyst Brandon Jenkins that he may be looking at official visits to Clemson, VCU and Wake Forest this coming fall.

We’ll certainly monitor whether Williams ends up deciding to take an official visit to the Hill at some point in the future.

When I penned this column, the 247Sports Composite had rated Williams as four stars, No. 134 nationally, No. 18 at point guard and No. 2 in Maryland.

In mid-July, 247Sports director of scouting Adam Finkelstein wrote a story where he ranked the top guards in the Under Armour Association league who are in the 2023 class.

Finkelstein placed Williams at No. 3, with the expert saying that this new Orange recruiting target has improved his shooting, is an excellent defender, and has a proficiency for finishing through contact, among other positive attributes.

"Added Finkelstein: “Overall, (Williams) has developed himself into a versatile two-way guard with good positional size who impacts the game both in half-court and open-court situations.”"