{"id":257198,"date":"2025-09-26T22:50:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257198\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T22:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:50:20","slug":"oklahoma-state-lands-no-44-basketball-recruit-jalen-montonati-tar-heel-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257198\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma State lands No. 44 basketball recruit Jalen Montonati &#8211; Tar Heel Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nPosted Sep 26, 2025<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSenior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/recruitprofile2459.aspx\" title=\"Jalen Montonati Recruiting Profile\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Montonati<\/a>, the No. 44 player in the 2026 SportsCenter NEXT 100 basketball rankings, announced his commitment to Oklahoma State on Thursday, giving head coach Steve Lutz his first top prospect since taking over the Cowboys in 2024. The 6-foot-6 wing opted to play where his father suited up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/bio1332.aspx\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eddie Sutton<\/a> in the late 1990s.&#13;<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/recruiting\/basketball\/story\/_\/id\/46379840\/oklahoma-state-lands-no-44-basketball-recruit-jalen-montonati\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>ESPN.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\/article161260.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Five-star PG Dylan Mingo visiting Penn State this weekend<\/a><br \/>Dylan Mingo, a five-star point guard in the 2026 class, is taking an official visit to Penn State this weekend. He is the younger brother&#8230;<br \/>Fri Sep 26, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article161257.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Four-star wing Maximo Adams talks Kansas visit<\/a><br \/>Four-star Sierra Canyon (CA) wing Maximo Adams took an official visit to Kansas this past weekend. \u201cThe visit went great,\u201d he told ZAGSBLOG. \u201cTheir message&#8230;<br \/>Thu Sep 25, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article161243.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Five-star Caleb Holt \u2018impressed\u2019 by Providence visit<\/a><br \/>Five-star Prolific Prep (CA) guard Caleb Holt took an official visit to Providence this past weekend and came away impressed. \u201cThe Providence visit went extremely&#8230;<br \/>Thu Sep 25, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article161238.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Five-star small forward Anthony Thompson visiting Kentucky for third time<\/a><br \/>For the third time in an 11-month span, one of the top basketball prospects in the high school senior class is taking a trip to&#8230;<br \/>Wed Sep 24, 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/i\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Oklahoma State lands No. 44 basketball recruit Jalen Montonati\" title=\"Oklahoma State lands No. 44 basketball recruit Jalen Montonati\" 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 Sep 26, 2025&#13; Senior Jalen Montonati, the No. 44 player in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257199,"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-257198","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\/115273048276508984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257198","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=257198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}