In late May, some eyebrows were raised in the Beehive State when AJ Dybantsa, the top high school basketball prospect in the class of 2025 and the presumptive first pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, announced that he had been offered a college scholarship. the Utah Runnin’ Utes, would be playing his senior year at Utah Prep in Hurricane and then received a scholarship offer from the BYU Cougars.
Shortly after, Dybantsa made an unofficial visit to the BYU campus, and on Sunday, college basketball expert Sam Lance of Zagsblog reported that the 6-foot-2, 200-pound Dybantsa will reveal the final 10 schools he is considering attending before the NBA by the end of this month.
As part of Lance’s story, he got information from Dybantsa on 10 of the schools that are recruiting him the hardest, and BYU made the list.
“I mean, it’s three hours from Utah Prep, so I want to say it’s a little far, but I want to say it was good,” Dybantsa said. “Seeing the campus, I just saw the general view, seeing the gyms and everything.”
BYU and Auburn are the only two schools Dybantsa, who was born in Massachusetts, has visited at this point, and he has made it widely known that his father, Ace, handles all communication with college coaches.
Of his visit to BYU, Dybantsa told Lance, “It was good, that’s when I took my visit to Utah Prep. Since I was there, I took an unofficial visit there. The coach (Kevin Young) said he can hopefully bring me back to an official to show me the full profile of the visit and what he has in store for me.
Kentucky (coached by former BYU head Mark Pope), Alabama, Auburn, USC, Duke, Arkansas, Baylor, UConn and Georgia Tech are the other nine schools listed in Lance’s story.
Ace Dybantsa told Lance that his son will visit all the finalists once he has his list narrowed down.
Landing Dybantsa would certainly be a huge coup for the Cougars, who have had big recruiting wins in recent months since Young became head coach by signing NBA prospects Egor Demin and Kanon Catchings.
