Dylan Harper has a decision date.
Rutgers basketball’s top remaining target in the 2024 recruiting cycle will announce his commitment to one of his final five options — the Scarlet Knights, Duke, Kansas, Auburn and Indiana — on Wednesday, December 6, he announced Monday night.
Harper will announce his decision at 4:30 p.m. from Fanatics in New York City.
The younger brother of Rutgers great Ron Harper Jr. and the son of five-time NBA champion Ron Harper Sr., the five-star guard is ranked No. 2 nationally in the 2024 recruiting class in the 247Sports Composite rankings. If he follows in his brother’s footsteps, he would be the highest-ranked recruit to ever commit to the Scarlet Knights, surpassing current 2024 commit Ace Bailey, a five-star forward who ranks third in the class on the composite rankings.
Harper took three official visits throughout his recruitment, most recently stopping at Rutgers during its Homecoming weekend in mid-October alongside Bailey, Sommerville, Dortch and 2025 five-star guard Trey McKinney. It was one of dozens of stops for Harper in Piscataway, where he watched his older brother build a memorable career. Harper also officially visited Duke and Indiana in 2022.
Dylan Harper took multiple unofficial visits to Rutgers throughout his recruitment, most recently during the football program’s season-opening win over Northwestern on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend.
Rutgers currently has a quartet of commits in its 2024 class, which currently ranks 11th nationally in the 247Sports team composite rankings: Bailey, four-star center Lathan Sommerville, three-star forward Bryce Dortch and three-star forward Dylan Grant. Adding Harper would push the group up to third nationally, landing behind Duke (three five-star commits, including No. 1 overall recruit Cooper Flagg) and Kentucky (two five-stars, two four-stars).
Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell and his assistant coaches have worked tirelessly to convince Harper to become the crown jewel of that vaunted 2024 class. They have trailed Harper practically everywhere they could this summer: Rutgers was four-deep courtside for multiple games at Peach Jam in July after doing the same at a high school game against Camden in January. Pikiell and top assistant Brandin Knight attended games as local as Roselle Catholic and as far as Hungary.
As college basketball insider Trilly Donovan put it: “If Dylan had a game on Mars, Steve would hop in one of those space rovers to make sure he’s courtside.”
The efforts have put the Scarlet Knights in a favorable position in Harper’s recruitment.
On Monday, Harper shared when he will commit. Rutgers will hope that, on Wednesday, he announces he is headed to Piscataway.
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