WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Purdue basketball program’s 2022 recruiting class has been filled out, and head coach Matt Painter will be bringing in four new faces to campus as freshmen next season.
Recruits Fletcher Loyer, Braden Smith, Camden Heide and William Berg will step foot on campus and join redshirts Trey Kaufman-Renn and Brian Waddell to form a group of six members in the class.
Without taking into account Berg’s recent commitment, the Boilermakers boast the 26th-ranked recruiting class in the nation, good for sixth in the Big Ten. The program is also poised to bring in the No. 4 overall recruit class in 2023, which tops the conference.
Here’s a full breakdown of all the incoming freshman for Purdue basketball:
Fletcher Loyer, Homestead High School
Position: SG
Height: 6-foot-5
Rating: 4-star recruit
Hometown: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Loyer headlines the Boilermakers’ incoming 2022 recruiting class, rated as a four-star recruit and the No. 84 overall recruit in the nation, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. He is ranked as the 17th-highest recruit in program history and chose Purdue over offers from Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Utah and Missouri.
He is the No. 3 overall prospect in the state of Indiana and No. 8 among shooting guards. During his junior season, Loyer led Homestead High School to a 25-1 record and the No. 1 ranking in Indiana. He originally lived in Clarkson, Michigan, before moving to Fort Wayne for his final two years of high school.
Loyer’s brother, Foster, played at Michigan State before transferring to Davidson before the 2021-22 season. Foster was Michigan’s Mr. Basketball in 2018. However, Fletcher ended up as…