{"id":310253,"date":"2025-10-17T08:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/310253\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T08:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:21:20","slug":"4-star-small-forward-includes-miami-hurricanes-in-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/310253\/","title":{"rendered":"4-star small forward includes Miami Hurricanes in final four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6c\">Montverde Academy (Fla.) wing Kevin Thomas, a four-star small forward in the 2026 class, has trimmed his recruitment to Miami, Auburn, LSU and Florida State and will announce his college choice Friday at 3:30 p.m. ET on the CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube channel. Thomas, listed at 6-foot-7, 190 pounds, is a consensus top-100 prospect and one of the Southeast&#8217;s most coveted two-way wings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">4\u2b50\ufe0f Kevin Thomas is down to four schools, he tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rivals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Rivals<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>Miami, Auburn, LSU and Florida State <\/p>\n<p>The 6-7 small forward is a top-80 recruit in the 2026 class. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rt7kCHAboD\">https:\/\/t.co\/Rt7kCHAboD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F6Fykpttdl\">pic.twitter.com\/F6Fykpttdl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Tipton (@TiptonEdits) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TiptonEdits\/status\/1976717242210615676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6i\">247Sports&#8217; scouting report describes Thomas as a &#8220;dynamic transition finisher&#8221; who &#8220;rises with force,&#8221; noting strides as a spot shooter to the arc and outlining next-step refinements in shot balance and consistency.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6l\">The decision comes after a busy late-summer\/early-fall stretch that elevated Thomas&#8217; national status. On3 ranks him a four-star and has tracked interest from multiple high-majors; 247Sports currently slots him No. 72 overall in the 2026 cycle. With three in-region options alongside Miami, the Hurricanes&#8217; case rests on development, fit and a pathway to minutes on the wing.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6o\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caneswarning.com\/jai-lucas-is-establishing-an-identity-at-miami-ahead-of-first-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jai Lucas<\/a> was hired in the offseason and completely remade the Miami Hurricanes basketball team with an all-new roster. There are 13 new players on the team and the Hurricanes look to be much improved after their disaster season in 2024-25. Still, no matter how this season plays out, Lucas is a fine recruiter, known for his previous work at stops such as Duke where he was a part of bringing in future No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg and the Boozer twins.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6r\">Thomas will reveal his choice Friday (Oct. 17) at 3:30 p.m. ET on the CBS Sports College Basketball channel. For Miami, landing Thomas would add a top-100, multi-positional defender\/finisher to the 2026 board and continue the program&#8217;s recent run of recruiting nationally for athletic wings. If he opts elsewhere, the Hurricanes remain firmly involved with other high-end 2026 perimeter targets and can pivot with a full winter and spring evaluation window ahead.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montverde Academy (Fla.) wing Kevin Thomas, a four-star small forward in the 2026 class, has trimmed his recruitment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":310254,"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-310253","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\/115388539721862005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310253","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=310253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}