Georgetown picked up its first verbal of the fall recruiting season with a commitment by Tremont Waters, a guard from New Haven, CT.
"I didn't go in looking at just the basketball aspect or just the books or personnel there," said Waters. "At every school I went to, I wanted to see if everything was balanced...I wanted to look at the best fit all around."
Waters, ranked #32 nationally by ESPN and #37 by the RSCI composite index, had also been considering Kentucky, Kansas, and Indiana, but appreciated Georgetown's patience in the process, and made a second unofficial visit to Georgetown last weekend during the school's Hoya Madness practice event.
"They were my first visit," he said. "To have me visit Kentucky, Indiana and Kansas after, they had to wait four weeks and they didn't message me a lot. They were just being patient. I was all in after I went back."
Waters is the 11th consensus top 50 recruit of the John Thompson III era, joining Vernon Macklin (#16, 2006), Dajuan Summers (#26, 2006), Austin Freeman (#14, 2007), Chris Wright (#31, 2007), Greg Monroe (#6, 2008), Nate Lubick (#42, 2010), Otto Porter (#34, 2011), D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera (#37, 2012), Isaac Copeland (#28, 2014), and Jessie Govan (#42, 2015).
Georgetown has three open scholarships in 2017-18 following the graduations of Bradley Hayes, Reggie Cameron, and postgraduate student Rodney Pryor but cannot comment on recruits until a letter of intent is signed. (An earlier verbal commit, Tyler Foster, decommitted over the summer.)
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