No. 1 overall recruit AJ Dybantsa visiting North Carolina this weekend

AJ Dybantsa, the No. 1 overall player in the 2025 class, will be taking an official visit to North Carolina this weekend, a source confirms to On3.

His trip to Chapel Hill will be his fifth official visit. Kansas and Kansas State hosted him a few weeks back. Auburn and USC each had him on campus last year, but the Trojans are no longer being considered.

The 6-foot-9 small forward is originally from Brockton, Massachusetts but now attends Utah Prep in Hurricane, Utah.

Dybantsa is scheduled to also visit Alabama, Baylor, and BYU in that order.

The Five-Star Plus+ prospect has a top seven of Alabama, Auburn, Baylor, BYU, Kansas, Kansas State and North Carolina.

Dybantsa’s father has said AJ will likely make a decision in the month of February.

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On3 national recruiting analyst Jamie Shaw wrote this about Dybantsa following the latest rankings update.

“In June I was at the USA Basketball U17 Training Camp. The setting of the camp had a couple of pre-approved media members along with NBA Scouts watching as they whittled down the list from 33 to the final 13. Sitting among the NBA Scouts throughout the open sessions of the Training Camp, during our conversation one scout matter-of-factly stated, “AJ Dybantsa would be the No. 1 player in this year’s draft (2024), next year’s draft (2025), and in the 2026 NBA Draft.”

“This thought process has been a common sentiment among scouts over the past few months of being able to watch high school prospects play live. Another NBA scout told me in conversation, “At this stage, Dybtantsa is the best domestic prospect I’ve scouted in the past 10 years.”

“After watching Dybantsa throughout the summer, in various team and camp settings, the conversation for No. 1 in this update was not a very long one. In fact, Dybantsa has continued to separate himself from his high school-aged peers and is currently in a top tier of his own within his high school class.

“At On3 we have never shied away from transparency in our rankings process. At the end of the day, we are ranking toward NBA Draft night. At this point in the process, as we wrap up these players’ final summer of travel ball, having eyes firmly planted on senior seasons, Dybantsa’s attainable ceiling is simply too high to ignore. That is why he remains in a tier of his own in the 2025 recruiting cycle.”