New Syracuse basketball target Ryder Frost is blowing up; 'shot is automatic,' per expert

Earlier this week, Syracuse basketball coaches offered a scholarship to fast-rising Ryder Frost, who is playing at an ultra-high level on the AAU circuit this spring and has seen his recruitment blow up lately.

The 6-foot-6 Frost is a 2025 three-star wing, although based on his recent play in grassroots basketball and comments from national experts, I envision Frost making a move to four stars sooner rather than later.

Frost attends the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H. On the AAU circuit, this spring and summer, he's running with the 17U team of the Boston-based Middlesex Magic in the Under Armour Association league.

In recent days, beyond the 'Cuse, Frost has picked up new offers from schools including Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, N.C. State, Minnesota and Nebraska, according to his X page.

His full offer sheet, per social media and recruiting services, also includes college squads such as Iowa, West Virginia, the University of Illinois Chicago, Penn State, Harvard, Vermont, Rhode Island, Brown, UMass, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Fairfield and Le Moyne.

Syracuse basketball recently got into the mix for 2025 three-star wing Ryder Frost.

So far this spring, the Under Armour Association league has conducted two sessions, first in South Carolina in late April and then, this past weekend, in Ohio, amid a NCAA live period.

Following the first session, the experts at The Circuit named Frost to their All-UAA Session I first team, as he averaged 16.3 points, 8.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists per contest.

Last weekend in session two, per a post on X from the Middlesex Magic, Frost in one game dropped 32 points and made nine shots from beyond the arc. Per the Under Armour Association Web site, in other session-two affairs, Frost tallied 10 points, 16 points and 19 points.

Collectively, in both sessions, Frost is connecting on 45 percent from the field, 45 percent from 3-point land, and 83 percent from the free-throw line.

After the Orange offered him, top writer Zach Smart of NYCHoops.net and Rivals.com wrote in a post on X that Frost is a "3pt shot maker with significant elevation on his shot. Pure stroke."

Smart said to me directly that Frost's skill set and scoring prowess are "high level," adding, "his shot is automatic."

As I noted, several recruiting Web sites currently have Frost as a three-star prospect. Via 247Sports, he's listed as the No. 60 small forward and the No. 5 player in Massachusetts within the 2025 class.

In total, Syracuse basketball coaches have offered more than 20 prospects in the rising high school senior cycle. But amid former associate head coach Gerry McNamara leaving to be the head coach at Siena, and former Mount St. Mary's head coach Dan Engelstad joining the 'Cuse as an assistant, the Orange has doled out a handful of offers in recent weeks to various 2025 players.

Besides Frost, those newer offers to 2025 prospects have gone out to four-star guard Acaden Lewis from Washington, D.C., three-star power forward/center Asher Elson from New York City, four-star shooting guard Dante Allen from Miami, and four-star small forward Shon Abaev, who also hails from Florida.