Shaka Smart landed the biggest target of his short tenure with the Texas Longhorns on Friday with the commitment of five-star power forward Jarrett Allen.

Allen, who is from Austin, is the highest-ranked recruit in Texas' class and the No. 17 overall prospect in the country. His addition is big for the Longhorns for a number of reasons on the court, but it also provided quite the boost to the team's 2016 class rankings. Texas, with three 2016 commits, sat at No. 18 overall in the 247Sports class rankings prior to Friday. After Allen's commitment, the Longhorns' class is ranked at No. 6 behind just Duke, Kentucky, Arizona, Michigan State and UCLA.

The Longhorns landed four Top 100 prospects in the 2016 class, including two five-stars, Allen and Irving MacArthur shooting guard Andrew Jones. Texas' other two prospects, four-star guard Jacob Young and four-star center James Banks, were also highly regarded by the recruiting industry.

Smart arrived in Texas with very few ties to the state. At the end of his first cycle, Smart landed two of the state's Top 5 prospects and three of the Top 10.