It is as large of a win for BYU basketball as this system has ever had. AJ Dybantsa, the nation’s top overall basketball recruit, has dedicated to the Cougars.
Dybantsa is a five-star small ahead from Hurricane, Utah, so the Cougars have at all times had considerably of a home-field benefit for the 6-foot-9, 210-pounder from Utah Prep. Nonetheless, North Carolina, Kansas and Alabama have been all additionally within the operating for his dedication, so the enormity of this choice cannot be understated for BYU males’s basketball coach Kevin Younger.
Younger is in his first season with the Cougars after a stint within the NBA from 2016-23, which noticed him develop into among the finest younger assistant coaches within the recreation. He was born in Salt Lake Metropolis and the Cougars introduced him again house to interchange Mark Pope — who changed John Calipari at Kentucky.
Thus far so good for Younger. His Cougars are 6-2 on the court docket on the time of this writing and he is now placing collectively an elite 2025 recruiting class. Dybantsa joins four-star heart recruit Xavion Staton and four-star energy ahead Chamberlain Burgess in Younger’s 2025 class.
“It is an up-and-coming program and clearly my objective is to get to the NBA. (BYU has an) NBA employees from the pinnacle coach right down to the dieticians and the analytics — I feel that was an enormous half,” Dybantsa told 247sports relating to his dedication to the Cougars.
“Coach Younger, the way in which he offered his program, he is not going to sugarcoat something and he will maintain me to requirements, NBA requirements, and he is coached a few of my favourite gamers within the league in order that was all a plus,” the five-star stated.
Merely put, this can be a huge pickup for BYU. The Cougars’ 2025 class is now ranked No. 11 nationally.