{"id":712847,"date":"2026-06-03T15:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712847\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:37:11","slug":"uva-basketball-odom-gets-commitment-from-class-of-2027-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712847\/","title":{"rendered":"UVA Basketball: Odom gets commitment from Class of 2027 center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/uva-basketball-floor.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img data-no-lazy=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/uva-basketball-floor.jpg\" alt=\"uva basketball floor\" width=\"555\" height=\"312\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>Photo: Mike Ingalls\/AFP<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"general-link\" href=\"https:\/\/virginiasports.com\/sports\/mbball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">UVA Basketball <\/a>coach Ryan Odom has his first recruit in the Class of 2027, in the form of 6\u201911\u201d center Mahamadou Landoure, a native of Mali and alum of NBA Academy Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Landoure will spend the 2026-2027 academic sports year at Bridgton Academy, a prep school in Maine that regularly features a roster of D1 prospects.<\/p>\n<p>The big\u2019s most recent on-court action came in the Basketball Africa League with Dar City, where he averaged 9.0 points and 3.0 rebounds in 16.3 minutes per game over his last three.<\/p>\n<p>Landoure, at 17, is the only teen on the Dar City roster \u2013 among his teammates is 39-year-old Hasheem Thabeet, the second overall pick in the 2009 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I bring that up to emphasize, that\u2019s nine points and three boards a game for a 17-year-old against grown-ass men.<\/p>\n<p>Landoure comes across as a grown-ass man himself \u2013 he\u2019s a solid 260, and looks more than capable of handling himself in the post.<\/p>\n<p>He was 7-of-10 from the field in that three-game run in BAL, all around the rim.<\/p>\n<p>His potential as a perimeter shooter is evident in his free-throw numbers \u2013 13-of-15 (86.7 percent).<\/p>\n<p>ICYMI: UVA Basketball recruiting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Mike Ingalls\/AFP UVA Basketball coach Ryan Odom has his first recruit in the Class of 2027, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,306238,85,306239],"class_list":["post-712847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-go-hoos","tag-sports","tag-uva-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}