Jerry Stackhouse's Vanderbilt basketball program lands pair of elite commitments
Jerry Stackhouse’s Vanderbilt basketball program landed a pair of huge commitments from Texas on Wednesday night. Greenhill School standouts Lee Dort and Noah Shelby are each taking their talents up to Nashville.
Dort, a center prospect listed at 6-9, 240, pounds is rated the No. 59 prospect overall in the class of 2022 on the industry-generated 247Sports Composite which factors the rankings of multiple services. On 247Sports, he is a 5-star prospect.
Shelby is listed at 6-2, 175 pounds and rated the No. 104 overall recruit on the Composite.
With Knoxville Catholic product Presley Patterson also on board, Vanderbilt’s 2022 recruiting class is ranked No. 1 in the SEC and No. 3 nationally on the Composite.
BREAKING: Noah Shelby & Lee Dort commit to Vanderbilt 🎓
“I think Vanderbilt was the best fit for both of us…We get the best of both worlds with academics and athletics.”
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— The Circuit (@TheCircuitHoops) April 8, 2021
Very nice gets for Stackhouse. Congrats Vandy.
This would be great if the head coach wasn’t trying to take other positions every season. I would not be the least bit surprised if the Hawks job comes open, that Stackhouse won’t be lobbying with players he knows on that team to put in a good word for him, like he did last year with New Orleans.
Now, that he knows he won’t be the head coach at North Carolina probably ever, he will be applying to every NBA job opening.
Will these two commits for two years down the road ever end up in black and gold? I’d say it’s probably 50-50 that either plays at Vandy, because it is less than 50-50 that Stackhouse is still the head coach in November of 2022.