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Cincinnati Offers Five-Star 2024 Center Somtochukwu Cyril

He would be the second-highest rated recruit in team history were he to sign.

CINCINNATI — Cincinnati made a couple of recent offers in the 2024 class—one to a guard—and one to arguably the best high school shot-blocker in the country. Somtochukwu Cyril is UC's latest target out of Hamilton Heights Christian Academy (Tn.).

According to 247Sports, Cyril is a five-star center ranked 20th in the class of 2024. He is the third-ranked center nationally and a walking black hole on defense. Cincinnati is just the eighth school to offer him as they try to get in on the ground floor of his recruitment.

With a 247Sports composite ranking at 99.25, Cyril would be the second-highest ranked recruit in the 247Sports era behind Lance Stephenson in 2009.

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