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AY2024-25 MBB Recruiting @2025-04-07
4 months 3 weeks ago - 3 days 15 hours ago #33153
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
This Origin Post is updated throughout the year with the latest summary data for Kansas Men's Basketball recruiting as of the date shown in the Subject line. This one post gives the reader a snapshot of the known and rumored status of KUMBB recruiting as of that date. Subsequent posts in this thread will contain later information or comments as events unfold, but the data those posts contain will be summarized in this origin post as appropriate.
For your easy reference, you can click here to see last season's recruiting thread.
And you can click here for information on the NCAA recruiting calendar for the academic year..
Enjoy!
I started this late this time around (November 2024), so a lot of history that might normally be included won’t be this time.
REQUEST TO RCBers
In an effort to keep recruiting information and Q&As easily accessible in one thread, please consider posting your recruiting comments and questions for this recruiting season in this pinned thread. Alternatively I will post a link here to your post in order to keep the recruiting info connected.
Also, if you know of an error or omission, please let me know so I can correct it.
Thank you and ROCK CHALK JAY HAWK K U!
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-25 KANSAS JAYHAWKS RECRUITING SYNOPSIS
Sources: Rivals, 247Sports, ESPN and others
National Rank & Ratings used for HS recruits are Rivals.
COMMITTED/SIGNED UPDATED 2025-04-05NOTE WELL: with new NCAA rules in effect for AY2025-26 that set new ROSTER limits for all NCAA sports and removed scholarship caps, setting Scholarship limits equal to each sports ROSTER limit, it is looking like true "walk-ons" are not actually going to exist anymore unless the program chooses to limit itself to fewer scholarship players for economic reasons. In the past there was always an allowance in the roster limit for walk-ons above and beyond the scholarship limit. Starting AY2025-26 student-Athletes can still agree to play without a scholarship, but I would interpret the new "S=R Limit" ruling as walk-ons impacting how many scholarships a program can offer since the roster limit cannot be exceeded.
NOTES and LEGEND for COMMITTED/SIGNED UPDATED 2025-04-05
(1) RSCI: 3; ESPN100: 2|5*; 247sports.com: 2/5*; On3: 3/5*
(2) RSCI: 15; ESPN100: 26/4*; 247sports.com: 20/4* ; On3: 23/4*. Played for Overtime Elite three seasons. Data is last available before services dropped him because he enrolled JAN2025.
(3) RSCI: -; ESPN100: -; 247sports.com: 73/4* ; On3: 127/3*. Played for Overtime Elite two seasons
(4) Nickens is a dual sport athlete, his primary being football, so his scholarship is counted against Football, making him a Basketball walk-on for scholarship tracking purposes. But he will still count against KU's roster limit, which I am hearing will also be impacted by the penalty.
(5) Dawson is a combo guard who started all 32 games with Loyola (Chicago) this AY. The junior guard earned All Atlantic 10 second team honors this AY. Next AY will be his senior and final year of college ball.
(6) White originally committed to Kansas early on his high school career, then opted to go to USC instead. From there he transferred to Louisville, then to Illinois. He will finally finish his senior season at KANSAS.
^ Transfer with 3 years left to play.
+ Transfer with 2 years left to play
# Transfer with 1 year left to play
& JUCO recruit with 3 years left to play
% JUCO recruit with 2 years left to play
© Eligible for extra Covid year (normal 5 years to play 4 eligibility began AY2020-21 or earlier)
RECRUITING CLASS RANKING UPDATED 2025-03-28
7 - Rivals (including Bryson Tiller, even though he enrolled JAN2025, technically making him a 2024 recruit)
28 - 247Sports.com (excluding Tiller)
15 - ESPN.com (excluding Tiller; 9 including Tiller)
16 - On3.com (excluding Tiller)
?? - RSCI (not published until recruiting season is over)
OFFERED (Multiple sources; where available, National Rank & Ratings are Rivals.)
The following list contains only recruits with a reported KANSAS offer (per Rivals, 247Sports, ESPN)
or a listing on JayhawkSlant's "Hoops Hot Board".
(NB: ! after Position indicates recruit is listed on JayhawkSlant's “Hoops Hot Board”; !! means Shay likes him despite no reported offer at posting time.)
UPDATED 2025-04-06
Link to the RCB thread TRANSFER PORTAL 2025.
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-25 SIGNING PERIODS FOR D1 MEN'S BASKETBALL
Early Signing Period window: .... 2024-11-13 thru 11-20
Regular Signing Period window: 2025-04-16 thru 05-21
Source: NLI Future Signing Dates Prospective Student-Athletes Signing AY2024-25 and Enrolling AY2025-26 .
OTHER IMPORTANT DATES UPDATED 2025-02-24
TRANSFER PORTAL
MONDAY 2025-03-24 through TUESDAY 2025-04-22, the last date for ALL PROSPECTIVE transfers to enter the portal and be eligible to play next Fall without an NCAA waiver. The only exception will be for players who experience a coaching change at their current schools. Regardless of the window, they have 30 days after the change takes place to enter the transfer portal.
Source: NCAA D1 Transfer Window Dates 2024-2025 .
NBA DRAFT RELATED
SUNDAY 2025-04-26, 11:59 PM ET: NBA deadline to declare for the 2025-06-25 draft (60 days out)
WEDNESDAY 2025-05-28, 11:59 PM ET: NCAA deadline to withdraw from draft and retain eligibility assuming no agent is hired or an NCAA certified agent is hired.*
Date is ten days after the final day of the annual NBA Draft Combine, which is scheduled for
SUNDAY May 11 through SUNDAY May 18, 2025.
Note the NCAA deadline is NOT the same as the NBA's draft withdrawal deadline (5:00 PM ET 2025-06-15, 10 days before the NBA draft is held over two days starting on Wednesday 2025-06-25).
*With the NCAA rules approved in August 2018, effective with the 2019 NBA Draft players can hire an NCAA certified agent and still return to school.
Sources:
• NCAA Memorandum 2025-02-21 SUBJECT: Information Regarding the 2025 National Basketball Association
Draft and Combine, Agents and Workouts
• NBA.com: Key Dates 2024-25
• NBA.com: 2025 NBA Draft Order: Picks 1-58 (LINK TO BE UPDATED)
• InsideHigherEd.com: 'Committed Change' for Men's Basketball.
DEPARTING & RETURNING AY2024-25 PLAYERS
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DEPARTING PLAYERS AFTER AY2024-25 ((S)cholarship, (W)alk-on, *past red shirt)
NB: Due to COVID19, the NCAA approved an additional year of eligibility and another year to use it in for all AY2020-21 players. The first “Super Seniors” did not count against original team scholarship limits for AY2021-22 to give programs some flexibility in transitioning to the new rule. All subsequent year Super Seniors through AY2025-26 (final year for redshirted SSrs) count against roster and scholarship totals. A © indicates a player eligible for an extra Covid year. See RCB: COVID-19 Super Seniors Basic Info for a more through explanation.
GRADUATING “SUPER SENIORS” and SENIORS
SUPER SENIORS (barring transfers in for next AY these will be KU's final COVID-19 eligible members)
C Hunter Dickinson (S)©
G Dajuan Harris Jr* (S)© (graduated May 2024)
G Shakeel Moore (S)©
SENIORS
F KJ Adams Jr (S)
G Patrick Cassidy (W) (graduated May 2024)
G Zeke Mayo (S)
PROJECTED EARLY ENTRANTS (EEs)
None known at post.
TRANSFERRING OUT
F Zach Clemence* (S)
G AJ Storr (S)
G Rylan Griffen (S
G David Coit (S) has another year as his JUCO year no longer counts against his NCAA eligibility.
G Rakease Passmore (S)
F Flory Bidunga (S) He looked at Auburn, but he is COMING BACK! 2025-04-06
OTHER LOSSES
F Dillon Wilhite (W) graduating early and going pro in the world of finance.
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RETURNING PLAYERS and AY2024-25 STATUS by Class ((S)cholarship, (W)alk-on), *Redshirt)
NOTE WELL; I am including here the AY2024-25 walk-ons who will still have eligibility left for AY2025-26. However, with the NCAA rules changing effective AY2025-26 to eliminate scholarship caps - setting scholarships allowed equal to the maximum allowed roster size (15 for both Men's and Women's hoops) - it is entirely possible that we will not see walk-ons in the future. This would mean that if KU does not use all of its 14 available scholarships (15-1 for the last NCAA scholarship penalty), they could offer a ride to any of these guys they want to keep, as talk on the street says KU is doing with Noah Shelby. But otherwise it looks as if our cherished walk-ons will be a thing of the past.
SENIORS
G/F Justin Cross* (W)
JUNIORS
G Wilder Evers* (W)
G Noah Shelby* (S) (word on the street is that former walk-on Shelby will be on scholarship AY2025-26)
SOPHOMORES
F Flory Bidunga (S)
G Elmarko Jackson* (S)
G Jamari McDowell* (S)
G Will Thengvall (W)
RED SHIRT FRESHMEN
NA
SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE UPDATED 2025-04-06
14 (Final installment of the NCAA penalty to be taken AY2025-26, when scholarship and roster limits change to 15 players)
- 4 returning scholarship players (after known EEs/Transfers out)
= 10 openings (after known EEs/Transfers Out)
- 5 new scholarship players (HS recruits, transfers in, upgraded walk-ons?)
∴ 5 scholarships available as of update date; 4 if the final payment on the NCAA penalty does indeed also impact the roster limit as well as the scholarship limit. meaning Jaden Nickens, even though counting against KUFB first, will also count against KU Men;s Hoops scholarship limit. (That just seems wrong to me. It effectively means two sports athletes cost the school 2 scholarships, even though they only have to pay for one.)
KUMBB used all 13 scholarships for AY2024-25, so the final penalty scholarship loss must be taken in AY2025-26. The changes in scholarship caps and roster limits for AY2025-26 are part of a major settlement agreement involving three lawsuits against the NCAA and the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC: House v. NCAA, Hubbard v. NCAA and Carter v. NCAA. Accordingly, KU will have 14 scholarship players (+1 walk-on available if the roster limits are not impacted by the penalty) next AY, then be at a full 15 player roster and 15 scholarships possible starting AY2026-27.
Sources:
SI.com 2022-11-02: Bill Self Suspended Four Games to Start Kansas Basketball Season
NCSA - New NCAA Scholarship and Roster Limits for the 2025-26 School Year
___________________________________________________________________________________
FORMER RECRUITS (Rankings not updated once they are off KU's radar)
For your easy reference, you can click here to see last season's recruiting thread.
And you can click here for information on the NCAA recruiting calendar for the academic year..
Enjoy!
I started this late this time around (November 2024), so a lot of history that might normally be included won’t be this time.
REQUEST TO RCBers
In an effort to keep recruiting information and Q&As easily accessible in one thread, please consider posting your recruiting comments and questions for this recruiting season in this pinned thread. Alternatively I will post a link here to your post in order to keep the recruiting info connected.
Also, if you know of an error or omission, please let me know so I can correct it.
Thank you and ROCK CHALK JAY HAWK K U!
___________________________________________________________________________________
ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-25 KANSAS JAYHAWKS RECRUITING SYNOPSIS
Sources: Rivals, 247Sports, ESPN and others
National Rank & Ratings used for HS recruits are Rivals.
COMMITTED/SIGNED UPDATED 2025-04-05
(Date format is YYYYMMDD)
Pos Rnk/Rating NAME HT/WT HOMETOWN COMMITED/SIGNED
SG 3/***** Darryn Peterson(1) 6-5/195 Canton, OH 20241101/20241113
F 21/**** Bryson Tiller(2) 6-10/240 Atlanta, GA 20241116/20241116
F 200/*** Samis Calderon(3) 6-8/200 Espirito Santo, Brazil 20241113/20241113
TRANSFERS
SG Jayden Dawson(5) 6-4/195 Omaha, NE 20250404/20250405
G/F Tre White(6) 6-7/205 Dallas, TX 20250404/20250405
WALK-ONS
G -/- Nickens, Jaden(4) 6-3/170 Chatsworth, CA 20241114/20241204(FB) NOTES and LEGEND for COMMITTED/SIGNED UPDATED 2025-04-05
(1) RSCI: 3; ESPN100: 2|5*; 247sports.com: 2/5*; On3: 3/5*
(2) RSCI: 15; ESPN100: 26/4*; 247sports.com: 20/4* ; On3: 23/4*. Played for Overtime Elite three seasons. Data is last available before services dropped him because he enrolled JAN2025.
(3) RSCI: -; ESPN100: -; 247sports.com: 73/4* ; On3: 127/3*. Played for Overtime Elite two seasons
(4) Nickens is a dual sport athlete, his primary being football, so his scholarship is counted against Football, making him a Basketball walk-on for scholarship tracking purposes. But he will still count against KU's roster limit, which I am hearing will also be impacted by the penalty.
(5) Dawson is a combo guard who started all 32 games with Loyola (Chicago) this AY. The junior guard earned All Atlantic 10 second team honors this AY. Next AY will be his senior and final year of college ball.
(6) White originally committed to Kansas early on his high school career, then opted to go to USC instead. From there he transferred to Louisville, then to Illinois. He will finally finish his senior season at KANSAS.
^ Transfer with 3 years left to play.
+ Transfer with 2 years left to play
# Transfer with 1 year left to play
& JUCO recruit with 3 years left to play
% JUCO recruit with 2 years left to play
© Eligible for extra Covid year (normal 5 years to play 4 eligibility began AY2020-21 or earlier)
RECRUITING CLASS RANKING UPDATED 2025-03-28
7 - Rivals (including Bryson Tiller, even though he enrolled JAN2025, technically making him a 2024 recruit)
28 - 247Sports.com (excluding Tiller)
15 - ESPN.com (excluding Tiller; 9 including Tiller)
16 - On3.com (excluding Tiller)
?? - RSCI (not published until recruiting season is over)
OFFERED (Multiple sources; where available, National Rank & Ratings are Rivals.)
The following list contains only recruits with a reported KANSAS offer (per Rivals, 247Sports, ESPN)
or a listing on JayhawkSlant's "Hoops Hot Board".
(NB: ! after Position indicates recruit is listed on JayhawkSlant's “Hoops Hot Board”; !! means Shay likes him despite no reported offer at posting time.)
UPDATED 2025-04-06
Pos Rnk/Rating NAME HT/WT Hometown
F 4/***** Nate Ament 6-9/200 Warrenton, VA
G 14/***** Brayden Burries 6-5/185 Corona, CA
G 76/**** Tyler Jackson 6-1/157 Atlanta , GA
G 103/**** Carlsheon Young 6-4/185 Newcastle, OK
C -/**** Alejandro Aviles 6-8/215 Glendale, AZ
SG!! -/- Corbin Allen 6-6/185 Kansas City, MO *** on 247Sports
NOTES HS & JUCO Recruits
& JUCO recruit with 3 years eligibility left
% JUCO recruit with 2 years eligibility left
GRADUATE & 4 YEAR SCHOOL TRANSFERS BEING RECRUITED
(NB: JUCO Recruits are included in the main OFFERED listing above;
RE = Remaining Eligibility including C-19)
P NAME HT/WT Hometown/College RE KU Visit
See "Transfer Portal YEAR" link at end of this section.
NOTES Graduate & 4 year school transfers
# Graduate transfer, 1 year of eligibility left
^ Transfer with 3 years to play 3 (no COVID-19 year)
+ Transfer with 2 years to play 2 (with COVID-19 year)^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-25 SIGNING PERIODS FOR D1 MEN'S BASKETBALL
Early Signing Period window: .... 2024-11-13 thru 11-20
Regular Signing Period window: 2025-04-16 thru 05-21
Source: NLI Future Signing Dates Prospective Student-Athletes Signing AY2024-25 and Enrolling AY2025-26 .
OTHER IMPORTANT DATES UPDATED 2025-02-24
TRANSFER PORTAL
MONDAY 2025-03-24 through TUESDAY 2025-04-22, the last date for ALL PROSPECTIVE transfers to enter the portal and be eligible to play next Fall without an NCAA waiver. The only exception will be for players who experience a coaching change at their current schools. Regardless of the window, they have 30 days after the change takes place to enter the transfer portal.
Source: NCAA D1 Transfer Window Dates 2024-2025 .
NBA DRAFT RELATED
SUNDAY 2025-04-26, 11:59 PM ET: NBA deadline to declare for the 2025-06-25 draft (60 days out)
WEDNESDAY 2025-05-28, 11:59 PM ET: NCAA deadline to withdraw from draft and retain eligibility assuming no agent is hired or an NCAA certified agent is hired.*
Date is ten days after the final day of the annual NBA Draft Combine, which is scheduled for
SUNDAY May 11 through SUNDAY May 18, 2025.
Note the NCAA deadline is NOT the same as the NBA's draft withdrawal deadline (5:00 PM ET 2025-06-15, 10 days before the NBA draft is held over two days starting on Wednesday 2025-06-25).
*With the NCAA rules approved in August 2018, effective with the 2019 NBA Draft players can hire an NCAA certified agent and still return to school.
Sources:
• NCAA Memorandum 2025-02-21 SUBJECT: Information Regarding the 2025 National Basketball Association
Draft and Combine, Agents and Workouts
• NBA.com: Key Dates 2024-25
• NBA.com: 2025 NBA Draft Order: Picks 1-58 (LINK TO BE UPDATED)
• InsideHigherEd.com: 'Committed Change' for Men's Basketball.
DEPARTING & RETURNING AY2024-25 PLAYERS
___________________________________________________________________________________
DEPARTING PLAYERS AFTER AY2024-25 ((S)cholarship, (W)alk-on, *past red shirt)
NB: Due to COVID19, the NCAA approved an additional year of eligibility and another year to use it in for all AY2020-21 players. The first “Super Seniors” did not count against original team scholarship limits for AY2021-22 to give programs some flexibility in transitioning to the new rule. All subsequent year Super Seniors through AY2025-26 (final year for redshirted SSrs) count against roster and scholarship totals. A © indicates a player eligible for an extra Covid year. See RCB: COVID-19 Super Seniors Basic Info for a more through explanation.
GRADUATING “SUPER SENIORS” and SENIORS
SUPER SENIORS (barring transfers in for next AY these will be KU's final COVID-19 eligible members)
C Hunter Dickinson (S)©
G Dajuan Harris Jr* (S)© (graduated May 2024)
G Shakeel Moore (S)©
SENIORS
F KJ Adams Jr (S)
G Patrick Cassidy (W) (graduated May 2024)
G Zeke Mayo (S)
PROJECTED EARLY ENTRANTS (EEs)
None known at post.
TRANSFERRING OUT
F Zach Clemence* (S)
G AJ Storr (S)
G Rylan Griffen (S
G David Coit (S) has another year as his JUCO year no longer counts against his NCAA eligibility.
G Rakease Passmore (S)
OTHER LOSSES
F Dillon Wilhite (W) graduating early and going pro in the world of finance.
___________________________________________________________________________________
RETURNING PLAYERS and AY2024-25 STATUS by Class ((S)cholarship, (W)alk-on), *Redshirt)
NOTE WELL; I am including here the AY2024-25 walk-ons who will still have eligibility left for AY2025-26. However, with the NCAA rules changing effective AY2025-26 to eliminate scholarship caps - setting scholarships allowed equal to the maximum allowed roster size (15 for both Men's and Women's hoops) - it is entirely possible that we will not see walk-ons in the future. This would mean that if KU does not use all of its 14 available scholarships (15-1 for the last NCAA scholarship penalty), they could offer a ride to any of these guys they want to keep, as talk on the street says KU is doing with Noah Shelby. But otherwise it looks as if our cherished walk-ons will be a thing of the past.
SENIORS
G/F Justin Cross* (W)
JUNIORS
G Wilder Evers* (W)
G Noah Shelby* (S) (word on the street is that former walk-on Shelby will be on scholarship AY2025-26)
SOPHOMORES
F Flory Bidunga (S)
G Elmarko Jackson* (S)
G Jamari McDowell* (S)
G Will Thengvall (W)
RED SHIRT FRESHMEN
NA
SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE UPDATED 2025-04-06
14 (Final installment of the NCAA penalty to be taken AY2025-26, when scholarship and roster limits change to 15 players)
- 4 returning scholarship players (after known EEs/Transfers out)
= 10 openings (after known EEs/Transfers Out)
- 5 new scholarship players (HS recruits, transfers in, upgraded walk-ons?)
∴ 5 scholarships available as of update date; 4 if the final payment on the NCAA penalty does indeed also impact the roster limit as well as the scholarship limit. meaning Jaden Nickens, even though counting against KUFB first, will also count against KU Men;s Hoops scholarship limit. (That just seems wrong to me. It effectively means two sports athletes cost the school 2 scholarships, even though they only have to pay for one.)
KUMBB used all 13 scholarships for AY2024-25, so the final penalty scholarship loss must be taken in AY2025-26. The changes in scholarship caps and roster limits for AY2025-26 are part of a major settlement agreement involving three lawsuits against the NCAA and the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC: House v. NCAA, Hubbard v. NCAA and Carter v. NCAA. Accordingly, KU will have 14 scholarship players (+1 walk-on available if the roster limits are not impacted by the penalty) next AY, then be at a full 15 player roster and 15 scholarships possible starting AY2026-27.
Sources:
SI.com 2022-11-02: Bill Self Suspended Four Games to Start Kansas Basketball Season
NCSA - New NCAA Scholarship and Roster Limits for the 2025-26 School Year
___________________________________________________________________________________
FORMER RECRUITS (Rankings not updated once they are off KU's radar)
HIGH SCHOOL
P Rnk/Rating NAME HT/WT Hometown/HS Decision
F 8/***** Koa Peat 6-8/220 Gilbert, AZ Arizona
G 10/***** Mikel Brown Jr. 6-4/170 Daytona Beach, FL Louisville
C -/- Mouhamed Sylla 6-10/240 Scottsdale, AZ Georgia Tech
OTHER NOTES (Reclassified, etc.)"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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