USC lands 4-star shooting guard Jonah Mathews

Four-star shooting guard Jonah Mathews has verbally committed to USC, according to Evan Daniels of Scout.com.

Mathews is ranked 70th on ESPN's top-100 high school prospects for the class of 2016 and the 19th-best shooting guard.

The native of Santa Monica, Calif., was said to be considering Gonzaga, San Diego State, and to a lesser extent Utah, in addition to USC.

Mathews is listed at 6-foot-1 and 175 pounds and currently attends Santa Monica High School.

"I wanted to stay home," Mathews said of his decision to commit to the Trojans. "Plus USC is in the Pac-12, they play a great schedule all year plus they can do a lot for me after basketball."

Mathews added that his comfort level with assistant coach Jason Hart was a significant factor.

"Ever since my sophomore year he’s been good," he said. "We’ve had a connection and a strong one. It wasn’t one of those weird connections, where I wouldn’t want to take his calls. I would always pick up for him. It was a good relationship between us from the start."

Mathews is known for being a balanced scorer that can shoot from behind the arc, in the mid-range, and off the dribble.

He joins three-star shooting guard De'Anthony Melton and three-star power forward Harrison Henderson in USC's 2016 recruiting class.

Mathews comes from a basketball family, as his older brother, Jordan, plays for rival California and his father is the head coach at Riverside Community College.