Pitt basketball will undoubtedly lean on its young freshmen this season, as the Panthers lost several key veterans to the professional level last year.
Both Carlton Carrington and Jaland Lowe are expected to play major roles for Pitt this year, while Marlon Barnes Jr. will likely come off the bench at a crowded wing position and Papa Amadou Kante is sidelined for the year with a knee injury.
Let’s take a look at the best freshmen in the league and where Carrington and Lowe fit into the conversation. The following list is in order, from highest to lowest, of 247 Sports Composite recruiting ranking. These are all of the freshmen in the ACC ranked in the top 130. Check out the full rankings here.
Elliot Cadeau – North Carolina
Cadeau was ranked as the No. 11 player in the country according to the 247 Sports Composite. The five-star guard will have a big role for the Tar Heels.
Jared McCain – Duke
McCain is another five star who will certainly be in the Blue Devils’ rotation. The 6-foot-2 combo guard had a stellar prep career in California.
Sean Stewart – Duke
Stewart is another five-star headed Jon Scheyer’s way. 6-foot-8 forward.
Caleb Foster – Duke
Foster is the third Duke five star on the list, coming to Durham as the No. 19 player in the nation. He’s a 5-foot-5 guard.
TJ Power – Duke
Power was a late-blooming forward who Pitt reached out to as he was exploding on the recruiting scene. The Worcester Academy product is a 6-foot-9 forward who was ranked as a five-star prospect.
Dennis Evans – Louisville
Evans was the No. 27 player in the nation, per 247’s composite. Evans is a 7-foot-1 big man.
Carey Booth – Notre Dame
Booth, the son of Denver Nuggets GM Calvin Booth, is a 6-foot-10 forward who was the No. 59 player in the class, per 247 Sports’ composite.
Elijah Gertrude – Virginia
Gertrude, a 6-foot-3 guard out of Hudson Catholic (NJ), was ranked as the No. 63 overall prospect in 2023.
Zayden High – North Carolina
High is a 6-foot-9, 225-pound rookie forward for the Tar Heels. Ranked as the No. 70 prospect in 2023.
Taylor Bol Bowen – FSU
Bowen is a 6-foot-9 forward out of basketball powerhouse Brewster Academy. No. 73 nationally.
Kaleb Glenn – Louisville
Glenn is a physically-imposing wing out of Louisville Male and La Lumiere. No. 75 nationally.
Blake Buchanan – Virginia
Buchanan is a 6-foot-11 forward out of Idaho who ill fill into UVA’s back court behind transfer Jordan Minor.
Curtis Williams Jr. – Louisville
Williams, out of Bloomfield Hills, MI, was ranked as the No. 79 prospect in the class.
Ty-Laur Johnson – Louisville
Johnson, a former Pitt target prior to Lowe’s commitment, was ranked as the No. 80 prospect in the class.
Jaland Lowe – Pitt
Lowe, out of Houston, checked in at No. 82 in the composite rankings.
Carlton Carrington – Pitt
Carrington, a Baltimore native, is ranked as the No. 119 player in the class, per 247 Sports’ Composite.
Parker Friedrichsen – Wake Forest
Friedrichsen was ranked as the No. 124 player in the nation, coming out of Bixby, Oklahoma. He’s a lanky 6-foot-3 guard.
Dennis Parker Jr. – NC State
Parker, out of John Marshall (VA), is a 6-foot-6 wing who was ranked as a four-star (No. 126) prospect.
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The 2023 ACC coach of the year is Still living well in your head. Don’t worry though, because he is NOT thinking about you. Why don’t you worry about your boy Pat Narduzzi?
So easy to trigger the mental midgets on this board. You are truly a simpleton
When Narduzzi becomes a whiny bi$&h and throws his players under a bus and starts recruiting felons. then I’ll start to worry skippy! Enjoy your day!
Narduzzi is a whiny bi$%h though. Whether the slide rule needs changed, deion doing it wrong, psu won’t play pitt & runs a hs offense, officials are all out to get pitt, nil, transfer portal, etc. He’s complained mightily. He has done nothing but throw kedon slovis under the bus. Despite nearly getting him killed in the tenn game. The felons I can give you. But he is an awful recruiter. Somehow he couldn’t piggyback an acc championship to better recruiting classes. And now pitt is a laughingstock and can’t even beat a team playing a qb whose never played… Read more »
Hey RaDICK , you’ll always be a little troll loser …. All you have in life is to be a troll …..we all wish you would just go away …… Get out of moms basement
See above. Simpleton.
MA THE MEATLOAF ,!
Correct punctuation would be “Ma, the meatloaf!” Dumbass.
That’s all you got ? You’re down to worrying about punctuation…… lol ….your a bigger jerkoff than we all thought !
“That all you got? ” From the cretin who repeats the same tired line over and over. Ironic…………
RaDICK it’s not even fun anymore, your low hanging fruit …… it’s too easy ….. your simply a joke !