Georgetown got a head start on its 2017 recruiting class on Wednesday when it landed a pledge from Tyler Foster, a 6-foot-5, 175-pound shooting guard from Baltimore (MD) Gilman.
VCU, Dayton and Southern Miss were also involved, but Georgetown was the heavy favorite.
“I picked Georgetown because I feel like it was a perfect fit on and off the court,” he told SNY.tv by text. “I’m going to try to do a little of everything when I get there just like I do now.”
“He always loved Georgetown,” Robert Foster, a former Dunbar star and the player’s father, told the Baltimore Sun. “He’s been a big Georgetown fan, a big Allen Iverson fan, so naturally he gravitated toward Georgetown early on. It was too good to be true for him. That’s really why he’s getting it done so early.”
Foster recently dropped 31 points for Bmore’s finest against Team Breakdown on the Under Armour circuit, leading to a Georgetown offer.
“His ceiling is tremendously high right now,” Bernie Vaughn, Foster’s AAU coach, told the Sun. “He’s only a sophomore, but the way he puts the ball in the hole right now, offensively the sky’s the limit. He can do it in so many ways. He has two more years of high school, so it’s up to him because offensively he’s very gifted.”
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