AJ Dybantsa, the No. 1-ranked participant within the class of 2025, is down to only seven faculties. Dybantsa’s father Anicet Dybantsa confirmed Friday morning to 247Sports that the 6-foot-9 small ahead, who will play his senior season at Hurricane (Utah) Utah Prep, is right down to a closing listing of Alabama, Auburn, Baylor, BYU, Kansas, Kansas State and North Carolina.
Up to now, Dybantsa has taken an official go to to Auburn and seen BYU unofficially. Now, he is within the means of organising visits to the faculties that he is but to see and will probably be making a return to BYU for an official go to.
Earlier this summer season, Dybantsa recapped his visits to Auburn and BYU with 247Sports analyst Dushawn London.
“My BYU unofficial was good,” stated Dybantsa. “I used to be already in Utah, so I’d as nicely take that go to because it’s proper up the road. On the go to, coach Kevin Younger went by a quick imaginative and prescient of what he sees me as. He advised me about his NBA background and a number of the guys that he is coached and thinks I play much like. He stated if I had been to go on an official, he’ll go deeper into context.”
In the course of the Auburn journey, Bruce Pearl centered on Dybantsa’s potential function.
“Bruce was primarily telling me that I might play a Jabari Smith or Isaac Okoro function,” he recalled. “I might play the wing or two function in faculty and that is what they did, in order that’s comparability.”
A particular prospect who has great dimension, athleticism and scoring means, Dybantsa is coming off an epic summer season. He was a significant piece of USA Basketball’s dominant gold medal run by the FIBA U17 World Cup and he then helped to guide his summer season staff the Oakland Troopers all the way in which to the finals of Nike’s Peach Jam.
Subsequent up, Dybantsa and his Utah Prep teammates will probably be taking a visit to China to play in a sequence of video games subsequent week.
Probably the No. 1 decide within the 2026 NBA Draft, Dybantsa has definitely caught the eye of 247Sports director of scouting Adam Finkelstein, who wrote this scouting report through the summer season.
“A 6-foot-9 jumbo wing with a wingspan exceeding 7 toes, an rising 200-plus-pound body and a complicated understanding of easy methods to rating from his spots (even in a half-court sport), AJ Dybantsa is the most effective prospect in highschool basketball.
“Dybantsa possesses a deadly pull-up sport with a excessive launch and a easy ball rotation. He is been a celebrated prospect since earlier than he entered highschool. But he has averted the pitfalls of early stardom by persistently bettering his sport at every degree. He was the main scorer within the 2023 Peach Jam as an underclassman and exhibits flashes of untapped potential on protection because of his dimension and motion expertise.
“The underside line is that this: Dybantsa controls his personal future. If he continues on his present path, then there isn’t any one in highschool basketball with extra potential than him.”
