5-star center Ugonna Kingsley announcing decision Aug. 1

On3 imageby:Peter Warren07/25/22

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Oakdale (Conn.) Putnam Science Academy five-star center Ugonna Kingsley will announce his college commitment Aug. 1, On3’s Joe Tipton reported Monday.

He took official visits to Kentucky, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.

Kingsley is currently the No. 18 overall recruit in the 2023 cycle, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He is the No. 4 prospect in the 2023 On3 rankings.

Kingsley has an On3 NIL Valuation of $5.5k. The On3 NIL Valuation is an index that looks to set the standard market value for both high school and college-level athletes. The NIL valuation does not act as a tracker of the value of NIL deals an athlete has completed to date. It rather signifies an athlete’s value at a certain moment in time.

The Wildcats have a 97.2% chance of landing Kingsley, according to the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine.

RPM was released to the public in December. The On3 engineering group teamed up with Spiny.ai to create the industry’s first algorithm and machine learning-based product to predict where athletes will attend college. 

It factors in machine learning, social sentiment, visits and historical trends. However, expert predictions are still a big piece of the RPM equation.