NCAA Basketball Recruiting: Analyzing 2021 PG Angelo Brizzi top 8 teams

Northwestern Wildcats

After winning only eight total games last season, Northwestern Basketball is clearly in rebuilding mode. However, there are positive signs for the program that Brizzi may be interested in. Most of the key returning players are all underclassmen and will be around for a couple more years. That includes talented players such as Boo Buie and returning leading scorer Miller Kopp.

Then there’s the current top-5 recruiting class in 2021, led by four-star shooting guard Casey Simmons. Five-star prospect Patrick Baldwin, Jr. currently has the Wildcats as a contender and could lift them into being contenders in the 2021-22 season. Add a capable shooter and scorer in Brizzi, who’d still find a way to be part of the rotation as a freshman, and Northwestern all of a sudden looks quite intriguing.

Villanova Wildcats

I have a feeling that Brizzi would love to have a career arc of a Collin Gillespie, who went from a bench role as a freshman to a national champion starter and All-Big East performer. He’ll be gone after next season, meaning that Villanova will need to find a ready replacement at the point guard position.

The Wildcats already have a pair of four-star class of 2021 commits in Trey Patterson and Nnanna Njoku but will need to find a point guard. Bryan Antoine, a sophomore guard who can play both positions, may possibly be a starter. And the chances are good that someone ranked in the top-50, or a top-tier transfer could join the program next offseason.

But Brizzi probably wouldn’t start regardless of who ends up on the 2021-22 roster. And that’s okay. If the three-star recruit picks the Big East juggernaut, he can wait his time and slowly develop under head coach Jay Wright before becoming a future star in his own right.