{"id":334837,"date":"2025-10-11T09:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/334837\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T09:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:11:13","slug":"wayne-tinkle-oregon-state-secure-highest-rated-high-school-commit-since-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/334837\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Tinkle, Oregon State secure highest-rated high school commit since 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IP3COKJ7JFDJDIXIKJUZY5NP6U\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/beavers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/oregonlive.com\/beavers\">Oregon State<\/a> men\u2019s basketball has its first commit from the Class of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CMPYULQD5NAFVJYZV7FX36MRO4\">Three-star power forward Drew Anderson announced his commitment to the Beavers on Friday. Anderson \u2014 standing at 6-9, 215 pounds \u2014 hails from Rancho Santa Margarita, California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OJWLE5SYDNFJLOYW7WE4VG7LZM\">Rated the No. 28 power forward and No. 166 overall player in the 2026 class by 247Sports, Anderson is Wayne Tinkle\u2019s highest-rated commit since 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5QTGJ2EY4BELXNXJJYKL52YX6I\">Anderson is lanky and athletic, described as having a soft touch that extends to the perimeter and possessing the ability to defend both at the rim and in space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"J6MHSN5I5FCHHFI64BUTDIOVTU\">\u201cI picked Oregon State because I really felt the love from the staff and Coach Tinkle has had a lot of success with players in my position,\u201d Anderson <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/article\/oregon-state-lands-power-forward-drew-anderson-256137200\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/article\/oregon-state-lands-power-forward-drew-anderson-256137200\/\">told 247Sports<\/a>. \u201cI felt now was the right time because I knew Oregon State was where I wanted to be and it felt like home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oregon State men\u2019s basketball has its first commit from the Class of 2026. Three-star power forward Drew Anderson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,33630,14067,53539,1825],"class_list":{"0":"post-334837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-oregon-mens-basketball","10":"tag-oregon-state-beavers","11":"tag-oregon-state-mens-basketball","12":"tag-oregon-ducks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115354762176175860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}