Breakdown: An eventful day at Palmetto Road for Purdue recruiting
ROCK HILL, S.C. — As the adidas 3SSB Palmetto Road championship event winds down leading into Sunday’s championship round, it was a big day for long-standing Purdue recruiting targets and a day on which a new target may have joined the fray.
Tre Singleton
TRE SINGLETON: REMEMBER THE NAME
One thing appeared certain on Sunday as Tre Singleton tore up Palmetto Road: Purdue would be remiss to not recruit, perhaps offer, the Class of 2025 forward from Jeffersonville, a previous unknown who may have just essentially jumped into the top 100-150 nationally once rankings are revised post-July.
After drawing coaches’ attention — Matt Painter’s included — on Friday with an 18-point, seven-rebound game against Virginia’s star-studded Team Loaded, Singleton kept it up Saturday, especially in the evening, totaling 22 points, seven rebounds and four assists in Indiana Elite Team Tradition’s win over the Atlanta Celtics.
Northwestern offered Singleton before July. Butler and DePaul have done so since, but more will come. Purdue seems like it will take a long look here the next few days and weeks as it keeps assessing its options for the 2025 class. Painter watched the 6-foot-8, 220-pounder during the weekend and Boilermakers assistants have been constants at his games since.
Purdue needs a skilled forward in the 2025 class, and Singleton would fit that category, as he is an excellent ball-handler who has shot the ball the best he ever has this weekend, either a temporary heater or, more likely, the enduring outcome of his work on that area of his game.
“I’ve been working on (shooting threes), getting reps up every day,” Singleton said. “I think that’s one thing I’ve really improved, but other than that I think I’m the same player. I’ve always been versatile. People are just seeing me.”
Meanwhile, whereas stretch 4s normally give something up in terms of foot speed or brawn/ruggedness, Singleton has shown eye-catching quickness, which would translate beautifully to switching defenses in college, along with a college-ready body.
INDIANA ELITE WILL PLAY FOR THE TITLE
Indiana Elite’s 17-and-under team, with Boilermaker targets Trent Sisley and Braylon Mullins, will meet Utah Prospects Sunday for the event’s championship, thanks to a riveting overtime win over a loaded Compton Magic team that held a healthy lead late in regulation, before going cold from the floor and foul line alike.
But Malachi Moreno totaled 21 points and 16 rebounds and guard Luke Ertel, a 2026 prospect for Purdue, came up huge with a pair of big crunch-time shots, before he then followed his own miss and turned it into an assist to Moreno for another critical play. Notre Dame football recruit Mark Zackery also loomed large at point guard; he’d be a high-major basketball prospect if he wasn’t playing football.
Compton Magic actually did as good a job as can be bottling up Mullins, who capped off a 13-point game with a number of late free throws. Sisley scored 11 points.
Compton has blue-chippers Koa Peat and Alijah Arenas, among others, the reasons Jon Scheyer and Tommy Lloyd were courtside.
Head coaches relevant to Mullins and/or Sisley: Mark Pope, Mike Woodson and Micah Shrewsberry.
WHERE WAS PURDUE?
Matt Painter left adidas on Friday to hit the Peach Jam in Augusta. He joined Brandon Brantley there.
Paul Lusk and P.J. Thompson patrolled Palmetto Road today, keeping an eye on Mullins, Sisley and Ertel; Singleton; 2026 targets Taylen Kinney and Steven Reynolds; and 2026 offer candidates Jamyn Sondrup and Junior County.
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