Mississippi State basketball recruiting: Four-star SF Kimani Hamilton commits to Bulldogs on CBS Sports HQ

Mississippi State landed a coveted small ahead from the Class of 2022 on Wednesday when four-star small ahead Kimani Hamilton introduced his dedication to the Bulldogs stay on CBS Sports activities HQ. Hamilton selected Mississippi State over Alabama to offer this system its third dedication of the category, which bumps from 83rd nationally to forty sixth. 

“It is the teaching workers. Simply how a lot love they confirmed me,” stated Hamilton of Mississippi State. “It was actual shut, it was a really onerous choice, however I really feel like I made the precise alternative.”

Hamilton is ranked because the No. 2 participant in Mississippi, the No. 25 small ahead and the No. 87 total participant within the class by 247Sports. He joins three-star guard Riley Kugel and junior faculty prospect Jaykwon Walton in Mississippi State’s 2022 class. The 6-foot-8 recruit from Clinton, Mississippi, averaged 16.2 factors and eight.1 rebounds for a state championship-winning Clinton Excessive College staff final season.

As a late-bloomer, Hamilton climbed the recruiting rankings in latest months after a powerful efficiency on the AAU circuit with Staff Thad. “Hamilton is a plus athlete with size who is among the extra versatile defenders within the class,” 247Sports nationwide basketball director Eric Bossi wrote in Might. “He may be moved round on the offensive finish, performs above the rim and makes open pictures.”