It is as massive 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 all the time had considerably of a home-field benefit for the 6-foot-9, 210-pounder from Utah Prep. Nonetheless, North Carolina, Kansas and Alabama had been all additionally within the working for his dedication, so the enormity of this determination 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 the most effective younger assistant coaches within the recreation. He was born in Salt Lake Metropolis and the Cougars introduced him again residence to exchange Mark Pope — who changed John Calipari at Kentucky.
Up to now so good for Younger. His Cougars are 6-2 on the courtroom 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 aim is to get to the NBA. (BYU has an) NBA employees from the top coach all the way down to the dieticians and the analytics — I feel that was an enormous half,” Dybantsa told 247sports concerning 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 mentioned.
Merely put, it is a large pickup for BYU. The Cougars’ 2025 class is now ranked No. 11 nationally.
