Four-star senior Aidan Igiehon verbally committed to Louisville, Chris Mack on Friday, he tells 247Sports.

“Coach Mack has been recruiting me since he was at Xavier and I saw what he did with that program,” Igiehon told 247Sports. “He turned them into a yop 10 program in the country, competing in the NCAA Tournament.”

“Now that he has the job at Louisville, historically with his programs, it’s just great to see what he can do in the future when he’s getting five stars and four stars and stuff like that. I see what he has been doing with Xavier players, turning them into pros or close to it.”

Igiehon, a 6-foot-10, 215-pound center prospect, took an official visit to Louisville the weekend of Sept. 28. He also visited Oregon the weekend of Sept. 14 and also strongly considered St. John’s and Kentucky.

What pushed Louisville over the top with Igiehon?

“It’s one thing to be wanted and another thing to be needed and I kind of felt like I was needed when I went on my visit,” Igiehon said. “Coach Mack showed me the roster and the blueprint he had setup. When I went on my official the city embraced me and they kind of like exploded the second I was there.”

“My other officials were nice but the Louisville visit was crazy,” he added. “Fans everywhere going crazy and with the basketball team it’s just the beginning. The ability of them to develop players, their staff is well-equipped to develop a player such as myself.”

To go with Mack’s accomplishments and the visit to Louisville, Igiehon also pointed to the relationships with their staff.

“Coach Luke Murray and coach Mack were the two coaches, but coach Murray was the one keeping in contact with me most of the time,” Igiehon said. “It became more of a, not so much of a coach and player but a friend to friend or brother to brother, that’s how close we got and it got to the point where the calls weren’t about basketball but would be about how my day is, school, how my mom is, like we got that close. It felt natural.”

When Igiehon took his official visit to Louisville, he spent quite a bit of time with fellow commits David Johnson and Josh Nickelberry, but he also got to know their whole recruiting class throughout the recruitment.

“Josh Nickelberry, Samuell Williamson, Jaelyn Withers and David, they’re all great guys and they visited Louisville before I did and as soon as I did, they all went after me. You could tell it wasn’t the coaches that were like, 'go get Aidan.' It was like they genuinely wanted to play with me and with them doing that we became close.”

His peers also used social media as a way to try and steer the Woodmere (N.Y.) Lawrence Woodmere Academy standout their way.

“On social media they would comment funny things like ‘card nation’ and things like that on my comments and doing that brought a lot of attention towards me and possibly going to Louisville because you have all of these committed players commenting but behind closed doors we’re all boys. It’s just love and it’s really cool man and now that I have a chance to play with them I think we can do something special.”

Igiehon gives Louisville their fifth four-star pledge and sixth overall commitment in the 2019 recruiting class. Igiehon ranks No. 44 overall and No. 12 at the center position in the 247Sports Composite Rankings.

Louisville maintains their position at No. 2 in the 247Sports Team Rankings with the addition of Igiehon to Williamson, Johnson, Wither, Nickelberry and Quinn Slazinski. Five of their six pledges rank in the 247Sports Composite Ranking top 100.