With Jeremy Fears Jr.’s commitment this past week, Tom Izzo landed an essential piece to the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 roster puzzle. As I have written about previously when discussing Tre Holloman’s commitment, Izzo has clearly decided that having at least three point guards on the roster at all times should serve as his cardinal rule of roster construction (I will return to “cardinal rules of roster construction” below).
Fears, and both Jaden Akins and Max Christie from the 2021 class, are the best NBA guard prospects that Izzo has recruited since Gary Harris and Marcus Taylor.