St. John’s basketball offers five-star New Jersey prospect

The St. John’s basketball program has offered a five-star prospect from New Jersey. 

After creating a strong relationships with New York City high schools, the St. John’s basketball program is trying to dip into the pool of talent in New Jersey.

Andrew Slater was the first to report that the Red Storm have offered five-star prospect Elliot Cadeau of Bergen Catholic High School (NJ).

Cadeau is a point guard in the Class of 2024 and has elevated his game over the course of the summer to an elite level player that schools are rushing to Oradell, New Jersey to get their eyes on.

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The 6-foot, 175-pound guard is currently No. 7 in the ESPN Top-25 while being ranked as the top player at his position and the No. 2 player in the state of New Jersey, only trailing Naasir Cunningham of Gil St. Bernard’s, who also holds a St. John’s offer.

Elliot Cadeau also holds offers from Seton Hall, Providence, TCU, Massachusetts, and Sienna while schools such as UConn, Virginia, Rutgers, and Wake Forest also also showing interest in the high school sophomore.

St. John’s basketball trying to continue recruiting hot streak

Since mid-July, the Johnnies have landed commitments from Kolby King, AJ Storr, and Jaquan Sanders.

King is unranked by many recruiting sites while Sanders is listed as a three-star player and Storr comes in as a four-star target.

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The trio have combined to give St. John’s the No. 28 recruiting class, according to 247 Sports, in the Class of 2022 and the No. 4 class in the Big East Conference.

Head coach Mike Anderson does not have any players committed in the Classes of 2023 or 2024 but the Johnnies aren’t quite done in the Class of 2022 yet as Our Savior Lutheran (NY) prospect Sadiku Ayo has yet to announce his college decision.

The three-star recruit seems to be narrowing his decision between St. John’s and Seton Hall, similar to his teammate Jaquan Sanders.