{"id":735536,"date":"2026-05-16T02:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/735536\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T02:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:42:19","slug":"top-15-overall-recruit-isaiah-hill-a-7-foot-center-commits-to-purdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/735536\/","title":{"rendered":"Top-15 overall recruit Isaiah Hill, a 7-foot center, commits to Purdue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isaiah Hill<\/a>, the No. 1 ranked center in the 2027 class, has committed to Purdue<\/a>, he told Rivals.<\/p>\n

The 7-foot big man out of Pike High School (IN) is the No. 12 overall prospect nationally \u2014 per the Rivals Industry Ranking<\/a> \u2014 making him one of the highest-ranked prospects to commit to the Boilermakers in the modern recruiting era.<\/p>\n

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Hill, a high four-star recruit, also received offers from Indiana, Louisville, Illinois, Notre Dame, Oregon, and others.<\/p>\n

He becomes Matt Painter\u2019s first commitment in the 2027 class.<\/p>\n

Hill discusses his commitment to Purdue<\/p>\n

Isaiah Hill went in-depth on his decision with Rivals.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost importantly, I feel like it\u2019s a good school for me. They\u2019ve been recruiting me since eighth grade and have always believed in me. I wasn\u2019t that good back in eighth grade compared to where I am today. Now I\u2019m one of the top players in the country, so they\u2019ve just believed in me since eighth grade.\u201d<\/p>\n

I asked Hill if the success that Matt Painter has had with seven-footers was one of the reasons he chose Purdue and he responded:<\/p>\n

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\u201cYeah, they can help me with my post work a lot. I know I\u2019ve been more of an outside player, but I want to be able to do both when I get to college. That\u2019s one of the reasons I liked Purdue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hill has a strong relationship with lead recruiter and assistant coach PJ Thompson, along with Painter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it\u2019s a very, very good relationship. Me and PJ (Thompson) play the game with each other, we laugh and joke around, and we\u2019ve been talking almost every day. Me and Coach Painter have a very good relationship as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his own words, what type of player is Purdue getting in Isaiah Hill?<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019m a versatile player because I block shots, play outside, rebound the ball, rim run, and shoot it. But most importantly, I\u2019m trying to work on my post work as well so I can do both. I\u2019ve actually been working on that a lot lately.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaiah Hill, the No. 1 ranked center in the 2027 class, has committed to Purdue, he told Rivals.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,38958,28001,11446,231,772,1544,91055,2467,91056],"class_list":["post-735536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-eighth-grade","tag-isaiah-hill","tag-matt-painter","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaab","tag-pike-high-school","tag-purdue","tag-rivals-industry-ranking"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116581953935511774","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735536","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=735536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}