{"id":427848,"date":"2024-09-15T21:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T01:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=427848"},"modified":"2024-09-16T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T13:50:16","slug":"mississippi-state-gains-2025-commitment-from-elite-top-10-shooting-guard","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/mississippi-state-football\/mississippi-state-gains-2025-commitment-from-elite-top-10-shooting-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi State gains 2025 commitment from elite Top 10 shooting guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi State has received their third commitment for the 2025 class, as Dallas shooting guard King Grace pledged to Chris Jans and the Bulldogs on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Grace, a 4-star recruit who transferred from Waxahachie (Tex.) to Dallas&#8217;s Faith Family Academy, is considered a top 50 player by 247Sports&#8217; composite rankings, as well as the No. 8 shooting guard in the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">4\u2b50\ufe0f King Grace (no. 67 ESPN 100) has committed to Mississippi State! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HailState?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HailState<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/King_Grace1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@King_Grace1<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HailStateMBK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HailStateMBK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jijyvfpkNA\">pic.twitter.com\/jijyvfpkNA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsCenter NEXT (@SCNext) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCNext\/status\/1835470497779241075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Along with Mississippi State, Grace took <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LeagueRDY\/status\/1821195601507410172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official visits<\/a> to Cincinnati, Oklahoma, SMU, Texas A&amp;M, and TCU. Ultimately, the Bulldogs were the team to gain his commitment.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs gained their 1st pledge of the class on Aug. 21, as another DFW product, DeSoto High School&#8217;s Cameren Paul, announced his commitment. The small forward is ranked as the nation&#8217;s No. 24 player at his position. They also have a pledge from North Carolina big man Chol Machot, a former 2023 recruit that reclassified to 2025. Now, with Grace in the fold, Mississippi State now has the No. 11 recruiting class in the country and the No. 5 class in the SEC.<\/p>\n<p>Below, you can take a look at Grace&#8217;s highlights from YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"King Grace 2025 6&#039;5 Waxahachie High School, Texas\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sQJF0Ejbg5c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi State received a big addition to its 2025 class on Sunday as one of the country&#8217;s top shooting guards committed to the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":348993,"featured_media":348079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-427848","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-mississippi-state-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/427848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/348993"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}