Five-Star Pitt Target Maleek Thomas Adds Elite New Offers

The Pitt Panthers are facing an uphill battle to keep the best in the state at home.

PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers have an elite basketball prospect residing in their own backyard and they've been able to build a relationship with him, but the blue bloods have come storming in to try and pull the Midland, Pennsylvania native out of his home state. 

UConn, Tennessee and Duke are the latest to have offered Thomas, who visited Pitt last summer. The Panthers will face increasingly stiff competition for one of the best players in the junior class. Villanova, Indiana, Xavier, Kentucky and Michigan are also serious contenders for the blue-chip class of 2025 prospect. 

Thomas, a 6'5, 175-pound wing from Lincoln Park Performing Arts Academy in Pittsburgh, is the unanimous No. 1 player in Pennsylvania and No. 1 shooting guard in the class of 2024. On3 has him ranked as high as the No. 3 player in America while 247Sports and Rivals rank him No. 7. 

He is a teammate of Pitt's lone commit in the class of 2024 - four-star guard Brandin Cummings, who is the brother of former Panthers point guard, Nelly Cummings. 

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