Five-star junior B.J. Boston discusses early official visits
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The 2020 class is the first class that has the opportunity to take five official visits as juniors along with taking five more as seniors. One prospect who has taken advantage of this new rule is five-star shooting guard B.J. Boston.
The Georgia native has already used three of his five official visits for the year on trips to Alabama, Auburn, and Duke. He had an official visit planned with Florida, but he’ll be rescheduling it. Ohio State is another school that could get a visit before the end of his junior year.
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IN HIS OWN WORDS
Boston talks about the schools he’s visited or plans to visit.
Alabama: “It was fun. I got to hang out with the staff, the team, and see the football game. I like Coach Avery (Johnson) and have a good relationship.”
Auburn: “I liked it down there. Coach (Bruce) Pearl is selling all us Georgia kids on going there together like me, Sharife Cooper and all them.”
Duke: “It was cool. It was a lot of fun. I liked it a lot. Coach K and his staff do a really good job.”
Florida: “I went there a year or so ago. I liked it. They have a young and energetic staff, and I like them.”
Ohio State: “I like Ohio State. I have a really good relationship with Coach (Chris) Holtmann. He always tells me how he can’t wait to coach me someday."
RIVALS REACTION
Since the start of his sophomore year, Boston’s recruitment has been on a steady rise with dozens of scholarship offers coming in as he surged in the rankings all the way up to No. 8 overall in his class.
A lot of the speculation around his recruitment has been that Duke is in a great spot to eventually land him, but it’d be crazy to count out any of the other schools involved. No school has recruited the Peach State better than Auburn in the past few years, and Alabama just recently signed five-star guard Collin Sexton out of Atlanta.
He’s also very intrigued by Florida and Ohio State, and visits to those schools could help them surge. Boston says all the schools are pretty even and doesn’t plan on committing any time terribly soon.