{"id":791953,"date":"2026-07-21T06:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/791953\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:57:13","slug":"washington-state-lands-first-mens-basketball-commitment-in-2027-class-wsu-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/791953\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington State lands first Men&#8217;s Basketball commitment in 2027 class | WSU Cougars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">PULLMAN, Wash. &#8211; Washington State men\u2019s basketball has picked up its first commitment for the 2027 recruiting cycle, as three-star guard Jaylen McLaughlin announced his pledge to the Cougars on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Bothell native is listed at 6-foot-3, 160 pounds and chose WSU over offers from Arkansas State, Eastern Washington, Toledo and Cal State Fullerton.<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin becomes the first player to join Washington State\u2019s 2027 recruiting class, giving the Cougars an early addition from one of the state\u2019s top high school prospects. His commitment continues WSU\u2019s effort to keep talented in-state players in Pullman as the program builds for the future.<\/p>\n<p>COPYRIGHT 2026 BY KXLY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PULLMAN, Wash. &#8211; Washington State men\u2019s basketball has picked up its first commitment for the 2027 recruiting cycle,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,4251,85,67,66,83413,1974,14155],"class_list":["post-791953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-local-sports","tag-national-sports","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-storytracker","tag-top-stories","tag-wsu-cougars"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116956669117267260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791953","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=791953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}