Syracuse Women's Basketball Lands Two Elite Recruits

Syracuse women's basketball has been one of the best recruiting programs in the country over the last several years. They continued that streak over the weekend with two more pledges.

Syracuse was the only women's basketball program in the country to land two top 10 players in the 2020 recruiting class. They finished with seven players overall, including three in the top 100. They are looking to build on that in the 2021 class and are off to a great start. Saturday night, the Orange added two elite players in the 2021 class in five star forward Latasha Lattimore and four star point guard Shayeann Day-Wilson. 

Lattimore is a 6-foot-4 five star forward who picked Syracuse over Cal, UCLA, Florida, Notre Dame, Kentucky, Baylor and Tennessee, according to ESPNW. She is ranked as the 11th best player overall in the 2021 class. Dan Olson, who covers women's basketball recruiting for ESPNW, breaks down Lattimore as follows:

"Athletic front court performer brings superior length, wingspan, defensive presence in the paint; rebounds and initiates the fast break, runs the floor like a guard and finishes the play in traffic; soft touch in the paint, plays near the rim; continues with a dominant interior game; a difference maker on both ends of the floor."

Day-Wilson is a 5-foot-5 four star point guard who is ranked as the 73rd best player in the 2021 class. She chose the Orange over Florida, Notre Dame and Michigan. Olson breaks her down as follows:

"Athletic floor-leader with a scorer's mentality in the back court; a penetrator, collapses the defense and distributes with flair; elusive floor game, 1 on 1 creator with offensive game beyond the arc; best in uptempo; a disruptor, gambler on defense."

Lattimore and Day-Wilson are high school teammates at Crestwood Secondary School in Canada. They are the second and third player to join Syracuse's 2021 recruiting class. Four star guard Nyah Wilson committed to the Orange in April.