{"id":44071,"date":"2025-07-29T02:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44071\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T02:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:37:08","slug":"iu-basketball-among-five-finalists-for-class-of-2026-guard-junior-county-inside-the-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44071\/","title":{"rendered":"IU basketball among five finalists for class of 2026 guard Junior County &#8211; Inside the Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"featured\">\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/07072025.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Class of 2026 guard Junior County is down to five schools and Indiana is among his finalists.<\/p>\n<p>County, a 6-foot-4 guard who plays at Wasatch Academy in Utah, is down to Arizona, Indiana, Maryland, Purdue and UConn.<\/p>\n<p>He is the No. 41 prospect nationally, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. <\/p>\n<p>County announced a scholarship offer from the IU basketball coaching staff on July 7. \u201cI am blessed to receive an offer from Indiana University,\u201d County wrote on Instagram after receiving the offer. \u201cThank you Coach Clark and the rest of the staff for the opportunity!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"filed\">See More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidethehall.com\/category\/recruiting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Recruiting<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidethehall.com\/tag\/junior-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Junior County<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Class of 2026 guard Junior County is down to five schools and Indiana is among his finalists. County,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,35119,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-44071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-junior-county","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaabasketball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}