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Marcus Adams Jr. decides to reclassify, join KU men’s basketball’s 2023 recruiting class

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Jordan Guskey, Topeka Capital-Journal
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Kansas coach Bill Self reacts to a play during the first half of a game earlier this season against Kansas State inside Allen Fieldhouse. Self's 2023 recruiting class is now set to include Marcus Adams Jr.
Kansas coach Bill Self reacts to a play during the first half of a game earlier this season against Kansas State inside Allen Fieldhouse. Self's 2023 recruiting class is now set to include Marcus Adams Jr.

LAWRENCE — Kansas men’s basketball’s 2023 recruiting class grew by one Sunday.

Less than a day after the Jayhawks’ 2022-23 season ended in the round of 32 of the NCAA tournament, a prospect originally set to be in the 2024 recruiting class announced his decision to reclassify. Marcus Adams Jr. now intends to be a part of the 2023 recruiting class. And that now puts Kansas at four incoming freshmen for the 2023-24 campaign.

“I’m coming home soon,” Adams posted on Twitter, in part.

When Adams originally announced his commitment to Kansas earlier this month, he was a 247Sports Composite three-star small forward out of the state of California. He was listed at 6-foot-8 and 200 pounds. And he’d chosen to spend his collegiate career with the Jayhawks over the likes of UCLA and Syracuse, a final three that showcases the likelihood that the consensus on his potential will rise in time.

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The three signees Adams is now set to join are guards Jamari McDowell, Chris Johnson and Elmarko Jackson. Jackson is a 247Sports Composite five-star talent, and Johnson and McDowell both four-stars. Jackson is also a McDonald’s All-American.

All four add size to Kansas’ roster. Considering the impending departures of redshirt junior forward Jalen Wilson and redshirt senior guard Kevin McCullar Jr. to the professional ranks, among other upcoming decisions to return next season or seek a change, all four add to the group that’ll look to earn key roles for a team that will attempt to defend its Big 12 Conference regular season title. It’s just a matter of how ready Adams and the rest are to assume those kind of roles.

“It’s been a long, hard journey,” Adams said during the Instagram live stream of his commitment earlier this month. “Came up from the bottom, and I’m up right here. It’s a blessing to be here. I thought I would never make it, and I’m here now. Just got to enjoy it.”

Jordan Guskey covers University of Kansas Athletics at The Topeka Capital-Journal. He is the National Sports Media Association’s sportswriter of the year for the state of Kansas for 2022. Contact him at jmguskey@gannett.com or on Twitter at @JordanGuskey.

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