Trae Hannibal is ranked by 247Sports as the No. 204 recruit in the 2019 class. Wildens Leveque comes in at No. 318 on that list. Neither of the South Carolina signees are ranked nationally by Rivals.
Not that Frank Martin really cares.
“I’m not into recruiting to satisfy recruiting websites,” said the seventh-year USC coach, “to satisfy people to sell subscriptions to people that don’t know, to make them think that they know who I should recruit. I’m going to recruit who fits South Carolina.
“I’m going to recruit who fits (Carolina athletics director) Ray Tanner, who fits (president) Harris Pastides and who fits our program.