As 5-star wing sets Syracuse basketball official visit, who else is visiting the Orange?

For several weeks, sources had been telling Inside the Loud House that Syracuse basketball was expected to get an upcoming official visit from 2027 five-star wing/small forward Moussa Kamissoko, a priority recruit for the new Orange staff in this cycle.

On Friday, word came that the 6-foot-8, 180-pound Kamissoko has locked in nine official visits to various programs, including the 'Cuse. A consensus top-20 national prospect in the high school senior class who is ranked as high as No. 8 overall by Rivals, Kamissoko will officially visit Syracuse men's basketball from September 3 to September 4, a source confirmed to Inside the Loud House on Friday.

His other official visits are Florida State, Virginia (where former SU head coach Adrian Autry is an assistant), Oklahoma State, BYU, Illinois, UConn, Louisville and Baylor. News of Kamissoko's official visit schedule was first reported by scout/analyst Tobias Bass, who is also a staff editor for The Athletic.

The Orange has pursued Kamissoko for a while, first offering him a scholarship in late December 2024, when Autry was still at the team's helm. First-year head coach Gerry McNamara and his staff have continued that aggressive push for Kamissoko, whose AAU head coach recently chatted with Inside the Loud House about this 'Cuse 2027 priority target.

On Saturday morning, the Rivals Recruiting Prediction Machine ("RPM") had Syracuse basketball out in front at 41 percent for Kamissoko, followed by fellow Atlantic Coast Conference school Florida State, at 36 percent.

Candidly, it's probably too early to start thinking that any one suitor is the runaway favorite for Kamissoko, who had a strong spring and summer for the 17U team of the Bronx, N.Y.-based PSA Cardinals in Nike's EYBL league, where he averaged 16.3 points, 7.2 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.4 steals per game while connecting on 51.2 percent from the field, 35.3 percent from beyond the arc and 69.7 percent from the free-throw line.

Earlier this week, Philip Kirsch, a basketball analyst at media outlet Pro Insight, dished on the skill sets of Kamissoko and other Orange priority recruiting targets in the 2027 class. Last month, 247Sports and CBS Sports director of scouting Adam Finkelstein also published an evaluation of Kamissoko that you can read here.

Who else is visiting Syracuse basketball coming up?

The Orange's 2027 priority targets include Kamissoko, five-star point guard Nasir Anderson from Georgia, four-star wing/forward Ian Condon from the DMV, four-star point guard J'Lon Lyons from the DMV and five-star wing/forward Ahmed Nur from Minnesota. Another name to watch is four-star guard Devin Cleveland from Chicago.

Besides Kamissoko's trip to the Hill, Nur officially visits from August 28 to August 30; Condon officially visits from September 1 to September 2; and Lyons is officially visiting from September 11 to September 13.

Cleveland has said he wants to visit all seven of his finalists before making a college decision and has already set a few official visits. The SU staff is working to get Anderson on an official visit to the Orange at some point, Inside the Loud House has reported.

The sole 'Cuse verbal commit in 2027 so far is three-star wing Jack Donohue from Albany, N.Y., who took an unofficial visit to SU in late June. He is likely to go on an official visit to Syracuse at some point later this year, Inside the Loud House is told.

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