{"id":84214,"date":"2025-08-15T07:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/84214\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T07:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:34:09","slug":"marcus-spears-jr-son-of-espn-analyst-named-no-1-hoops-prospect-in-class-of-2027-tar-heel-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/84214\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Spears Jr., Son of ESPN Analyst, Named No. 1 Hoops Prospect in Class of 2027 – Tar Heel Times"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n
\n <\/p>\n


\n
\nPosted Aug 14, 2025

\nESPN announced the new No. 1 men’s basketball prospect in its recruiting class of 2027 on Thursday, with Marcus Spears Jr.<\/a> earning that honor. His name may sound familiar, because he is the son of ESPN NFL analyst Marcus Spears. Both of Spears Jr.’s parents were standout basketball players in their own rights, too.
\n(Sports Illustrated<\/a>) <\/p>\n

Related: College Basketball Recruiting<\/a><\/p>\n

5-star guard Caleb Holt schedules Kentucky visit, sees himself in Otega Oweh’s role<\/a>
Kentucky is looking to make a push with five-star recruit Caleb Holt. Holt, ranked No. 4 overall in the 2026 cycle, has locked in an…
Thu Aug 14, 2025<\/p>\n

Five-star guard Deron Rippey Jr. reschedules Kentucky visit<\/a>
Five-star guard Deron Rippey Jr. of Blair Academy (NJ) has rescheduled his Kentucky visit. Rippey will now visit Oct. 3-5 after having to postpone his…
Thu Aug 14, 2025<\/p>\n

Four-star guard Katrelle Harmon picks Creighton<\/a>
Katrelle Harmon the No. 55 ranked player in the class of 2026 announced on the CBS College Basketball Youtube channel that he’s headed to Creighton…
Tue Aug 12, 2025<\/p>\n

A look back at the top storylines from the week of basketball recruiting<\/a>
Anthony Thompson, the nation’s 10th ranked senior announced six official visits during the week, and UNC will get one of them on August 22. Four-star…
Mon Aug 11, 2025<\/p>\n

\"Marcus<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Posted Aug 14, 2025 ESPN announced the new No. 1 men’s basketball prospect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-84214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84214","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=84214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}