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Pitt Target Beginning Official Visit with Duke
One of the Pitt Panthers’ high school recruiting targets will be in Durham this weekend, according to reports.
Pitt target Braydon Hawthorne took an official visit to Pitt earlier this week. Before that, he was at Kentucky. Now, he is going to be visiting the Duke Blue Devils this weekend.
The 6-foot-8, 175-pound wing is one of the top-75 players in the nation, according to 247 Sports. He is from Huntington, West Virginia, and is the No. 1 overall player from West Virginia.
Weeks ago, Pitt reportedly hired former West Virginia’s former Director of Recruiting Jay Kuntz, who was on staff at WVU when they landed Hawthorne initially. However, that hire has not been announced officially by the University yet. Pitt does not have any commitments locked up in the class of 2026. The Panthers brought in just one high-school player in the class of 2025, adding Omari Witherspoon out of Washington, D.C. to the roster for this upcoming season.
In other recruiting news, Pitt offered a pair of twins on Thursday.
Pitt offered the Ratliff brothers, Adonis and Darius, who are twins. The Ratliff twins are the sons of former NBA standout Theo Ratliff.
According to 247 Sports, Adonis holds offers from Mississippi State, Rutgers, Texas, UCF, Stanford, Saint Bonaventure, and others. Darius holds offers from all of those schools as well as California, per 247 Sports. They play for Archbishop Stepinac in New York.
Pitt visited the twins’ school this week, checking out Stepinac’s team.
Pitt was one of many programs represented at Stepinac on Thursday. The full list, according to the school’s twitter account, follows: Alabama, NC State, St. Bonaventure, Iona, Boston University, Oral Roberts, Pitt, Illinois, Yale, Manhattan, Brown, Arkansas, Creighton, UConn, Stetson, Texas, Louisville, Michigan, Boston College, Northwestern, UMass, Rutgers, Quinnipiac, Fordham, Saint John’s, Columbia, and Hofstra.
