The nation’s best basketball prospect for the class of 2025 is headed to the Big 12, but it’s not to one of the traditional powers that you might expect.
Despite receiving offers from Kansas, Baylor, Houston, and a host of other blue bloods like North Carolina and Duke, AJ Dybantsa, the No. 1 overall player in the class of 2025, is headed to BYU.
Dybantsa is BYU’s first five-star commit of the modern era, and this isn’t just a guy that many believe is going to be good — everybody agrees that he’s going to be great.
The Cougars’ latest commitment isn’t just the No. 1 player in the class by one recruiting service’s estimation, he’s the No. 1 overall player in the country according to On3, Rivals, ESPN, and 247Sports.
Dybantsa is listed at 6-foot-9, 200 pounds, and has exhibited elite basketball acumen since he was young. According to 247Sports’ Director of Scouting Adam Finkelstein, Dybantsa is the best prospect in high school basketball, not just the 2025 class.
A 6-foot-9 jumbo wing with a wingspan exceeding 7-feet, an emerging 200-plus-pound frame and an advanced understanding of how to get to his spots and create his own shot in a half-court game, AJ Dybantsa is the best prospect in high school basketball,” Finkelstein writes.
“The bread-and-butter of his individual offense has always been his mid-range pull-up. From an early age he was able to rise-up into a high release with good rotation on his ball. Over the years, that trademark of his arsenal has only become more dangerous as he’s developed the handle and footwork to consistently create space. Simultaneously though, he’s expanded his offensive game, begun to utilize his length and athleticism to put more pressure on the rim, and extended the consistency of his shooting range out to the arc. He’s, of course, also capable of getting loose for some extremely explosive plays in the open floor…”
