AJ Dybantsa’s recruitment will be wrapping up this week.
On Monday, 247 Sports’ Travis Branham reported that Dybantsa, the top high school basketball player in the country in the Class of 2025, will announce his commitment to a school this week.
Later, it was announced that Dybantsa will deliver the news Tuesday morning on ESPN’s “First Take.”
The 6-foot-9, 210-pound Dybantsa, who hails from Massachusetts but is playing his senior year of high school basketball at Utah Prep in Hurricane, was long thought to be headed to BYU, but Branham reported Monday that such an outcome is not so sure anymore.
“In late October, I placed a 247Sports Crystal Ball for Dybantsa in favor of BYU but the water has become murkier over the last two weeks as conflicting information swirls around the recruitment,” Branham wrote.
By Monday afternoon, however, Branham had once again logged his prediction for BYU to land Dybantsa.
Last week, Dybantsa formally narrowed the list of schools he is considering to four — in alphabetical order, those are Alabama, BYU, Kansas and North Carolina.
On Monday, Branham reported that, according to his sources, “(Alabama), BYU and UNC were all feeling pretty good about their chances.”
That said, though Branham wrote that he feels all three have a good shot, unlike when BYU was seen as the clear leader, he concluded his Monday story by writing, “I do think the likeliest right now is BYU.”
Dybantsa, in addition to being the top player in his high school class, is also widely considered the front-runner to be the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NBA draft.