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2025 Five-Star C Alier Maluk Visits Pitt

The Pitt Panthers are getting an unofficial visit from one of 2025's best.

Stephen Thompson

2025 Five-Star C Alier Maluk Visits Pitt
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers welcomed very special unofficial visitor from right in their own backyard to campus this week as they look forward to filling the 2025 recruiting class. 

Five-star center Alier Maluk, a 6'10 blue-chipper from Imani Christian Academy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was in Oakland to check out the Panthers up close and personal, according to a report from Rivals' Rob Cassidy. 

Maluk told Stockrisers' Jake Weingarten in January that Pitt is among the four schools recruiting him the hardest, alongside Auburn, LSU and West Virginia and added that he speaks with assistant head coach Jason Capel regularly. 

Rivals considers Maluk a five-star prospect and the No. 16 player in the class, while On3, ESPN and 247Sports hold him as a four-star player. They all still rank him as a top-50 player in the class, top five power forward and the No. 2 player in Pennsylvania. 

He holds offers from Ohio State, Penn State, NC State, Seton Hall, Oregon and Texas A&M in addition to those four pursuing him the most aggressively. 

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Stephen Thompson
STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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