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Indiana basketball: 2023 Five-star Xavier Booker includes IU in top 10 schools

By Connor O’Keefe

Cathedral basketball player Xavier Booker, at home with his parents Fred and Demetric Booker, in Fishers, Tuesday, April 19, 2022.
Cathedral basketball player Xavier Booker, at home with his parents Fred and Demetric Booker, in Fishers, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. /
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#1B. Michigan State Spartans

This might be perfect timing as the Cathedral big man would be the focus of the offense for Tom Izzo, who has pretty good experience with forwards who have gone on to have solid NBA careers, Draymond Green (Warriors), Jaren Jackson Jr. (Grizzlies), and Xavier Tillman (Grizzlies), as Malik Hall (senior) should be on his way out and Joey Hauser (RS senior) will finally be moving on from college basketball.

Jaxon Kohler, a four-star 6-foot-10 power forward from California, is heading to East Lansing this season and seems to have a hold on the starting big man job for the Spartans but with the potential addition of Xavier Booker, Kohler and Booker could become the best one-two big man punch in college basketball for 2023-24.

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