{"id":102509,"date":"2025-07-29T16:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/102509\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T16:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:33:11","slug":"four-star-7-foot-center-marcis-ponder-commits-to-florida-state-basketball-tar-heel-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/102509\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-Star, 7-foot center Marcis Ponder commits to Florida State Basketball &#8211; Tar Heel Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nPosted Jul 29, 2025<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMarcis Ponder, a 4-star center in the 2026 basketball recruiting class, committed to Florida State on Tuesday. Along with the Seminoles, the 7-foot rising senior of Gillion Basketball Academy (VA) received offers from Cincinnati, Illinois, Indiana, Miami, Providence, and Texas. Ponder, a native of Miami, is ranked as the nation&#8217;s No. 69 overall recruit.&#13;<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/news\/four-star-7-foot-center-marcis-ponder-commits-to-florida-state\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>On3.com<\/b><\/a>)&#13;<\/p>\n<p><b>Related:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/college-basketball-recruiting.aspx\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">College Basketball Recruiting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article160062.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top-40 recruit Billy White III down to 10 schools<\/a><br \/>Billy White III, a four-star small forward in the 2026 class, has narrowed his list of schools down to ten. Moving forward, the 6-foot-8 rising&#8230;<br \/>Sun Jul 27, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article160055.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top-20 prospect Ikenna Alozie schedules first official visit, breaks down eight finalists<\/a><br \/>Class of 2026 point guard Ikenna Alozie will visit Alabama the weekend of Sept. 6, he told ZAGSBLOG. Alozie, the 6-foot-2 guard out of Dream&#8230;<br \/>Sat Jul 26, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article160049.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lack of talent in 2026 class creates unique recruiting and roster-building strategy for colleges<\/a><br \/>From my standpoint, this class has some highly talented long-term prospects and some prospects who are very impactful players right now. They don&#8217;t have many&#8230;<br \/>Sat Jul 26, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article160024.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top-50 national 2026 recruit Bo Ogden discusses his top six<\/a><br \/>Bo Ogden, the No. 49 overall recruit in the national 2026 class, has announced that he is down to six schools. A 6-foot-5 wing who&#8230;<br \/>Thu Jul 24, 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/90B97EAF-12B3-4F06-AF04-98676D7D28D6.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Four-Star, 7-foot center Marcis Ponder commits to Florida State Basketball\" title=\"Four-Star, 7-foot center Marcis Ponder commits to Florida State Basketball\" onerror=\"this.style.display = 'none'\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0; overflow:hidden;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Posted Jul 29, 2025&#13; Marcis Ponder, a 4-star center in the 2026 basketball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-102509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114937489409097721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}