A key Indiana basketball target has set up another official visit to an emerging school involved in their recruitment.
Reported on Twitter by Trilly Donovan of Full Ride Network, 2024 five-star center Derik Queen has set up a official visit to Houston in early October. Queen just wrapped up his second official visit to Indiana over the weekend alongside his Montverde teammates, five-star wing Liam McNeeley and four-star guard Curtis Givens.
Along with Indiana and Houston, schools such as Kansas and Maryland are key programs involved with Queen.
For most of Queen’s recruitment, Indiana and Maryland have always seemed to the frontrunners as the potential landing spots for the five-star center. The Baltimore native has the clear ties to Maryland and throughout the majority of his recruitment, he has been a Maryland-lean. Earlier this summer, however, the main assistant recruiting Queen for the Terps left the program leaving the door more open than previously thought.
Houston is making up serious ground and this will be a critical visit on the calendar.
Queen and McNeeley are good friends, and sources have indicated to HoosierIllustrated.com that it could ultimately play somewhat of a role in his recruitment. The programs that are recruiting both Queen and McNeeley are Indiana and Kansas. They have taken back-to-back visits to Kansas and Indiana the first two weekends of September.
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The 6-foot-9 big man made significant strides over the last year in his overall game. As a junior at Montverde, Queen averaged 11.8 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.2 assists while shooting 61 percent from the field. Playing for Team Thrill on the Under Armor AAU circuit, Queen averaged 19.7 points per game.
“Opposing bigs hate to see Queen coming; his versatility and quickness as a scorer and rebounder are next level. Queen has some of the best footwork of any big in the country, uses his 6-foot-10, 220-pound frame to create separation in the paint and has an IQ that reads off the charts as one of the best passers in the country,” Rivals national analyst Jason Jordan wrote back in July.
Derik Queen is ranked as the No. 10 overall player in the 2024 247Sports Composite Rankings and the No. 3 center.
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