Mason’s First 2026 Visit, Shane Pendergrass

Mason is bringing in 6’8 forward/wing Shane Pendergrass on an unofficial visit, their first one for a 2026 prospect.

2026 @MZPAHoops/@DC_Premier_ F Shane Pendergrass will take an unofficial visit to George Mason tomorrow, per source. 6’8” F has put together a strong spring & continued into the early summer by catching eyes at UA Future 60 pic.twitter.com/BxXWt4hL6L

— Colby Giacubeno (@ColbyGHoops) June 13, 2024

Pendergrass is attending Mount Zion, but he previously went to Gwynn Park, assistant coach Louis Hinnant’s alma mater.

Shane took two unofficial visits to Penn State, and another to Georgetown. He has offers from Mason, St. Bonaventure, Bryant, NJIT, Norfolk State, Bethune-Cookman, San Diego, and reportedly has interest from Illinois, Notre Dame, Marquette, Maryland, Iowa, Boston College, UVA, Virginia Tech, and of course, Penn State and Georgetown.

Pendergrass had big performances at the UA Future 60 that put a lot of eyes on him.

Per Rivals, Shane averaged 19.6 points and 7 rebounds for DC Premier, his UAA team, and 18 and 7.6 for Mount Zion this season.

He also made the All-MPSC Team, the team that recognizes the best players from the DC Metro Private School Conference.

It seems like Pendergrass reclassified from 2025 to 2026, as I found some older stuff on him that calls him a 2025 guy.

Mason’s visitor has a pretty well-rounded game. He’s able to shoot it from the perimeter, is a big energy and effort guy, a lob threat, and has a nice mid-range game that I could see being used to break zones.

Shane used to be more forward-y, but it seems like he has now slimmed down a bit and can play either wing or forward. On his social media, the 6’8 Mount Zion prospect calls himself a wing. Whatever Pendergrass is, he is probably playing at the four.

The wing/forward hybrid is probably an average-ish A10 athlete, as nothing stuck out to me in a positive or negative way.

I watched a couple of minutes of Mount Zion’s game against Bullis School to get a feel on his defense. In that time, he grabbed a tough rebound and didn’t give anything up in a zone defense. Since they played zone defense, it was a bit tough to evaluate Shane’s man-to-man skills, but it looked like he was putting in a lot of effort on that end, and that is all you can ask for.

Pendergrass seems like a very capable defender that has the potential to be a plus defender.