Impact Analysis: What Tennessee basketball is getting in 4-star PG Bishop Boswell
Tennessee basketball is on the board in the 2024 recruiting class, adding its first commitment on Thursday in four-star point guard Bishop Boswell. The 6-foot-4, 195 prospect out of Charlotte, N.C., picked the Vols over Xavier, Wake Forest, Georgia and Missouri.
Boswell, out of Myers Park High School, is ranked as the No. 61 overall prospect in the country in the On3 Ratings. He’s the No. 9 point guard in the class and the No. 6 overall player in the state of North Carolina.
“It was a summer of separation for four-star PG Bishop Boswell,” Jamie Shaw, On3’s senior national recruiting analyst, told Volquest. “On a Team CP3 travel team that had multiple top-50 players, it was Boswell who led them in points, rebounds, assists, and steals during Nike’ EYBL Circuit regular season.”
Bishop Boswell: No. 61 overall, No. 9 PG, No. 6 NC
Boswell took official visits to all five of the finalists in his recruitment. He was at Tennessee on September 8 and Georgia on September 15. He went to Wake Forest in late August, after trips to Xavier and Missouri in June.
In Boswell, the Vols are getting a guard that can play on both ends of the floor.
“(He’s) a former football player, has a strong frame with long arms,” Shaw said. “He can be a very good defender both on or off the ball. Offensively, Boswell is an aggressive player, touching the paint in straight lines and absorbing contact in the paint. He also developed the jump shot, shooting 36.5 percent on 3.7 attempts during the EYBL’s regular season.”
Boswell stopped playing football after the 2021 season and started focusing more on basketball. He led Myers Park to a state championship despite the program previously not appearing in a state title game since 1966.
“He was a central figure in Myers Park’s run to the North Carolina state championship,” Shaw wrote, “as one of the team’s leading scorers throughout the playoffs as well as handling the ball and guarding the opposing team’s top perimeter threat.”
What’s Next: Tennessee basketball recruiting
Tennessee is one of six finalists for 2024 four-star small forward Chase McCarty, with Georgia Tech, Houston, Kansas, Missouri and Texas Tech also making the cut.
McCarty, a 6-foot-6, 200-pound prospect and Huntsville, Ala., native, attends IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. He’s ranked No. 73 overall in the On3 Industry Ranking. He’s the No. 26 small forward in the 2024 class and is the No. 13 overall prospect in the state of Florida.
He’s taken official visits to Georgia Tech, Ole Miss, Kansas, Houston and Oklahoma, along with Tennessee. McCarty has not yet set a decision date for his commitment.
The Vols will also focus heavily on the transfer portal in the spring to fill remaining spots in the 2024 class.
