Myles Colvin Signs National Letter of Intent With Purdue Basketball
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Myles Colvin, a four-star guard out of Heritage Christian High School in Indianapolis, officially signed his national letter of intent with the Purdue basketball program on Wednesday.
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Colvin is the son of former Boilermaker football star Rosevelt Colvin and the younger brother of Raven Colvin, a sophomore who plays for the Purdue volleyball team. But the young basketball player will look to start his own legacy when he takes the floor in West Lafayette and is a huge signee for coach Matt Painter and the Boilermakers.
“I think our staff has done a very good job of evaluating talent in this state and Myles is another example of that," Painter said in a release. I feel he is the best player in the state and one of the top-25 players in the country. He has a tremendous upside and is going to be very functional in today’s game with his athleticism and skill level.
"He’s going to have a tremendous career at Purdue. He has great positional size and he has really worked on his skill from shooting 3s, making pull-ups and getting to the basket. He has an extremely high ceiling and he is going to only get better.”
The 6-foot-5, 190-pound Colvin is a top-75 prospect in the nation, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. He is rated as the eighth-best player at his position and ranks as the third-highest recruit in the state of Indiana for the class of 2023.
Entering his junior season of high school basketball, Colvin has received a total of four offers, those coming from Purdue, Indiana, Butler and Miami (Ohio). The touted recruit pledged a verbal commitment to the Boilermakers back on July 7, 2021.
As it currently stands, Colvin is the only player in Purdue's 2023 recruiting class after fellow four-star recruit Dravyn Gibbs-Lawhorn decommitted from the program in early August and announced he would continue his basketball career at Illinois.
As a sophomore at Heritage Christian, Colvin averaged 18.5 points alongside 6.2 rebounds per game and has proven to be a talented scorer score from all three levels. He is also a member of the 2023 Indy Nets Basketball Club.
Colvin was the first player that Painter extended a scholarship to among last year's incoming junior class. Assistant coach Brandon Brantley has also been involved in the recruiting process.
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D.J. Fezler is a staff writer for BoilermakersCountry.com. Hailing from The Region, he is from Cedar Lake in Northwest Indiana and has spent the last two years covering Purdue football and basketball.