{"id":338128,"date":"2023-10-12T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=338128"},"modified":"2023-10-12T15:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:00:18","slug":"why-wait-top-prospect-aj-dybantsa-reclassifies-from-2026-to-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=338128","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Why wait?&#039; Top prospect AJ Dybantsa reclassifies from 2026 to 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AJ Dybantsa, who had previously been considered the top prospect in the class of 2026, announced on Wednesday that he has reclassified to the class of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Dybantsa tweeted a graphic announcing his decision and appeared on 247Sports&#8217; show on CBS to speak about the news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To speed up my recruitment \u2014 it was in my head already that I wanted to reclassify, so why wait when I could explore different colleges, different routes right now instead of waiting until June 15?&#8221; he said to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The Prolific Prep (Napa, Calif.) small forward added that he had previously reclassified down in a previous year, so this jump puts him back in his proper age group.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The moment that AJ Dybantsa (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ADybantsa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ADybantsa<\/a>) announced he would reclassify from Class of 2026 to Class of 2025 <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f5e3.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udde3\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 5<img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/2b50.png\" alt=\"\u2b50\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> SF explains the decision and his recruitment <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f3c0.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udfc0\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ag46ymRqzC\">pic.twitter.com\/ag46ymRqzC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 247Sports (@247Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/247Sports\/status\/1712140555432407271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dybantsa told 247Sports he is leaning toward attending college but &#8220;all of the options are open right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In reclassifying, Dybantsa remains not just one of the top prospects in the class of 2025 but in the nation regardless of class. 247Sports ranked him at No. 1 in his new class, ahead of star power forward Cameron Boozer, who over summer was ranked ahead of even Cooper Flagg before Flagg had an elite summer and reclassified to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Dybantsa, listed at 6-foot-9 and 200 pounds, worked out with a <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/aj-dybantsa-worked-out-with-lebron-durant-chris-paul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">variety of NBA players<\/a> over summer, including \u00a0LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Chris Paul. He also attended Jayson Tatum&#8217;s camp.<\/p>\n<p>With this experience, he&#8217;s accelerating his recruitment timeline and will begin the process in earnest. Already holding 14 collegiate offers, more should flow soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>AJ Dybantsa, the top player in the class of 2026, reclassified to 2025 with his eye set on accelerated recruitment.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338130,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338128\/revisions\/338130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}