Indiana basketball gets another 4-star recruit to commit

Jordan Geronimo must have fallen in love with Bloomington quickly. The 6-foot-6 prep school small forward announced late Monday night that he was committing to Archie Mille and the Hoosiers after visiting the school this weekend. He announced the news on social media and later confirmed in interviews with several outlets.

Geronimo is a 4-star recruit according the the 247Sports composite rankings, and the 98th ranked player in the country. He is the third recruit in Miller's 2020 class, joining 4-star Anthony Leal of Bloomington South and 3-star Trey Galloway of Culver Academies.

With Geronimo's news, the Hoosiers jumped from 14th to No. 4 overall in the 247Sports national team rankings, behind only Virginia, Xavier and Utah, and head of Duke (No. 6), Kentucky (No, 7) and Butler (No. 10).

Geronimo had dozens of Power 5 school offers, and had trips planned to Boston College and Georgia this month as well, which are likely to be cancelled now. Virginia was also rumored to be be heavily in the mix with him.

He had a huge summer on the Adidas Gauntlet tour playing for the Mass Rivals AUU team. He was called "the fastest riser in the country'' by one recruiting service,with his athleticism standing out all summer. It looks like he's a quality kid, too. His athleticism and leaping ability remind some of former Hoosier great Victor Oladipo, who was also a fast-riser in high school who didn't really blossom as a player until he got to Indiana. (He was a 3-star recruit, by the way.)

"Indiana's a special place, and I guess he fell in love with Indiana and didn't want to take any more visits,'' his Mass Rivals coach Vin Pastore said. Pastore also coached former Hoosier Noah Vonleh in the same program. "That was on him. He just fell in love with Indiana.''

Watching your rise to the highest levels has been amazing but not as amazing as getting to know a person like you. Don't change and you have no ceiling my friend just the sky. It's been a real pleasure in getting to coach you. Thank you @JordanGeronimo2 pic.twitter.com/tHrPDuPQth
— Tom Nelson (@NEBallAcademy) August 1, 2019

Geronimo is also excited to be a Hoosier.

“You should see me right now. I’m in my backyard just jumping around,” Geronimo told Jeff Rabjohns of 247Sports late Monday night. “I’m excited to be a Hoosier.”

Geronimo was accompanied by his parents for his official visit, and they were all blown away by the campus, and the tradition and history of Indiana basketball.

"After my family checked into the Graduate Hotel, we looked up and saw basketball chandeliers. There were old-school bleachers decorating the walls. We were blown away by how deep and rich the basketball history at Indiana was," he told Jon Blau of the Herald-Times late Monday night.

Blau also shared this interesting nugget: Jordan is named after basketball great Michael Jordan, and here is a tie there. His mother, Dawn Royster, played women's basketball at North Carolina the same time as the basketball legend.

Miller and the Hoosiers still have room for one more recruit in this class, and maybe two depending on how the roster shuffles out in the next 12 months. There are still a few point guard and post targets that Indiana is interested in before this class is complete.

But so far so good for Indiana.