{"id":283233,"date":"2025-10-07T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283233\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:48:10","slug":"four-star-class-of-2026-prospect-jayden-hodge-commits-to-northwestern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283233\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-star Class of 2026 prospect Jayden Hodge commits to Northwestern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY ALEJANDRO LOPEZ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Northwestern has secured a top-80 recruit in the Class of 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Four-star prospect <strong>Jayden Hodge <\/strong>will play for the Wildcats in the 2026-27 season, he announced on Monday. The 6-foot-6 wing chose Northwestern over Old Dominion, where his father<strong>, Odell Hodge<\/strong>, is on staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be taking my talents to Northwestern University and I believe that that\u2019s the right place for me because they play my style of play,\u201d he told ZAGSBLOG. \u201c[I am] quick and position-less, and they are not scared to play young guys. I will bring being a winner, doing the small things like diving on the floor, creating for others and most importantly [make] the plays that are going to help the team win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey native plays high school basketball for Montverde Academy (FL) and is the No. 79 player in his class, according to 247Sports. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamZagoria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Follow Adam Zagoria on Twitte<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>r<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Follow ZAGSBLOGHoops on Instagram<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZagsBlog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>And Like ZAGS on Facebook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alo_hoops\" rel=\"nofollow\">Follow Alejandro Lopez on Twitter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BY ALEJANDRO LOPEZ Northwestern has secured a top-80 recruit in the Class of 2026. Four-star prospect Jayden Hodge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":283234,"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-283233","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\/115331078838328512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283233","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=283233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}