Breakdown: Purdue recruiting targets on Wednesday at the adidas 3SSB event
ROCK HILL, S.C. — Day 2 at the adidas 3SSB Palmetto Road championships event is in the books here in Rock Hill, as college coaches are set to pour through the doors Thursday as the July evaluation period begins.
Here are four thoughts and/or notes on the day’s action.
BO OGDEN OUGHT TO BE A MAJOR PURDUE PRIORITY
It’s really too early in the 2026 recruiting cycle for Purdue, or any school for that matter, to have a complete board or hierarchy of targets, but if Boilermaker coaches had one, here’s guessing Texas’ Bo Ogden would be near the top of that list.
Matt Painter has coveted skilled forwards, as so many college coaches have, and the 6-foot-6 Texan is precisely that, if you’d even call him a forward at all. He’s as much a wing or guard as he is a 4. For his grassroots team, he initiates offense, he uses ball screens, he posts up, shoots threes, facilitates, all of it. Defensively, he guarded on the ball at times Wednesday morning, and figures to project long-term as a viable multi-positional and interchangeable defender.
“I’m a bigger 3,” Ogden said after scoring 21 points in his ASAK 17U team’s — he’s playing up a year — win this morning over Utah Prospects, “but I can really play all positions. I’m a bigger guard, so I can post up. I’ve worked on that a lot. And I’m always trying to guard the best player. I think I can play anywhere.”
The smarts are there, as well.
Coaches’ kids tend to be advanced and there’s a history of them thriving at Purdue.
Ogden’s father is long-time college head coach and current Texas staffer Chris Ogden.
Purdue offered Bo Ogden in June and seems likely to have him on campus for a junior-year official visit in the fall.
“I really like Coach Painter and Coach (Paul) Lusk, the ones recruiting me,” Ogden said. “They’ve been telling me I’d fit well in their system, playing hard, shooting, rebounding.
Providence is Ogden’s other really early high-major offer, but needless to say, Ogden has Texas’ attention given his connections to the program.
BRAYLON MULLINS COMMITS TO A RETURN VISIT TO PURDUE
Make no mistake here: Surging in-state wing Braylon Mullins is going to be an up-hill battle for Purdue as the whole country is suddenly recruiting the four-star recruit after an emergent spring.
But a recent unofficial visit to West Lafayette compelled Mullins to tentatively plan a return trip of the official variety. When remains to be seen, and Mullins will have a breakneck schedule to keep, as he has already reportedly put on the books officials to Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee, North Carolina and Michigan State, and that list doesn’t include likely strong considerations Connecticut, Notre Dame and Kentucky, a new offer. Mullins, though, has made a slew of official visits.
See what Mullins said about Purdue in the video below.
ANOTHER 2025 POSSIBILITY EMERGING
As Purdue keeps expanding its Class of 2025 pool — Mullins, Trent Sisley and Antione West are really its only three known offered priorities at this point — you can expect coaches to take a peek this week in Rock Hill at Minnesota’s Chase Thompson, a 6-8 skilled forward who doubles as a standout quarterback, though he’s fully committed to basketball long-term now.
Thompson said he hasn’t heard directly from Purdue yet, but that it has been in touch with his coaches from D1 Minnesota, the program Camden Heide played for.
Thompson just took an official visit to West Virginia and has a trip planned to Iowa in September. Nebraska is among the others who’ve offered.
PURDUE REACHING WEST
Class of 2026 Utah Prospects standouts Jamyn Sundrup and Junior County have each been hearing from Purdue since mid-June, both being recruited by assistant coach P.J. Thompson.
No offers yet from Purdue, but that’s what evaluation periods are for. Both have already been highly pursued, with Utah, BYU, Cal and Arizona State among those that have already offered both of them. County has a Houston offer, too, and Sondrup has Washington.
Purdue may really like what it sees from Sundrup, a powerful 6-8, 230-pounder who is a natural shooting from three-point range, a load on the block with soft touch around the rim and a skilled passer. Purdue compared him to Trevion Williams.
“They said they’ve been watching me, they like me and they think I’d fit their program,” Sondrup said.
County is a big combo guard ranked 73rd nationally in ’26 by On3. (Sondrup is ranked 150th. at least for the time being.)
“‘I’ve just been getting close with Purdue and their family and P.J.,” County said. “We’re talking weekly and building a relationship.”
Purdue has been involved thus far with a number of 2026 prospects from western states, likely coincidental and no reflection of the expanding Big Ten changing anything.
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