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Five-Star 2025 PG Darius Acuff Hopes to Visit Pitt

The Pitt Panthers could have a blue-chip visitor soon.

Stephen Thompson

Five-Star 2025 PG Darius Acuff Hopes to Visit Pitt
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers were among the first to extend an offer to 2025 five-star point guard Darius Acuff and have kept up contact with him throughout the spring in summer. 

Those efforts appear to have paid off, as the blue-chip target told Wyatt Huff of KY Insider that he hopes to visit Pitt, along with a selection of other schools, sometime this fall. 

Acuff led Class Technical High School to its first state championship win last season, finishing with a 27-1 record while averaging 21.4 points and 5.7 assists per game. He was ultimately named 2022-23 MaxPreps Michigan High School Basketball Player of the Year. For his AAU team, The Family, he was named the top underclassman of the Nike EYBL Circuit's Session I after averaging 18.2 points on 60% shooting, 4.2 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game.

Acuff is ranked as high as the No. 1 player in Michigan (247Sports) and the No. 1 point guard in the class of 2025 (247Sports and On3). 247Sports ranked him the No. 11 player overall in his class and each of the four major recruiting services consider him a top-20 player in the class as well. 247Sports, ESPN and Rivals all consider him a five-star prospect. 

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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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