Which prospects will sign during the early signing period?

The early signing period for basketball begins tomorrow on November 10th and lasts through the 17th.

This gives high school seniors the opportunity to sign their National Letter of Intent (NLI), and lock in their scholarship offer. In essence, players are fully pledging themselves to the university and making it official. Players can be later released from their NLI, usually in the case of a major coaching change, but for a variety of other reasons as well.

So, why do some players not sign early, despite already being committed to a school? There are several reasons. Maybe the player wants to see how the upcoming season goes, who will leave to join the pros, or who else will commit. Worst-case scenario, the player is second-guessing their commitment.

I asked each of the players in the On3 100 if they would sign early.

Recruits expected to sign early

*If you do not see a player’s name, they either did not reply or do not know whether or not they will sign early.

All rankings are according to the On3 Consensus

• No. 1 Shaedon Sharpe (Kentucky)
• No. 2 Dereck Lively II (Duke)
• No. 3 Keyonte George (Baylor)
• No. 4 Dariq Whitehead (Duke)
• No. 6 Cason Wallace (Kentucky)
• No. 7 Chris Livingston (Kentucky)
• No. 11 Kyle Filipowski (Duke)
• No. 15 Brandon Miller (Alabama)
• No. 16 Skyy Clark (Kentucky)
• No. 21 Kel’el Ware (Oregon)
• No. 25 Jalen Hood-Schifino (Indiana)
• No. 26 Dillon Mitchell (Texas)
• No. 27 MJ Rice (Kansas)
• No. 28 JJ Starling (Notre Dame)
• No. 32 Jalen Washington (North Carolina)
• No. 33 Gradey Dick (Kansas)
• No. 34 Seth Trimble (North Carolina)
• No. 40 Isaac Traudt (Virginia)
• No. 41 Jett Howard (Michigan)
• No. 42 Malik Reneau (Florida)
• No. 44 Mark Armstrong (Villanova)
• No. 48 Felix Okpara (Ohio State)
• No. 50 Jaxon Kohler (Michigan State)
• No. 51 Donovan Clingan (UConn)
• No. 52 Leon Bond (Virginia)
• No. 53 Terrance Arceneaux (Houston)
• No. 54 Zuby Ejiofor (Kansas)
• No. 55 Roddy Gayle Jr. (Ohio State)
• No. 56 Milos Uzan (Oklahoma)
• No. 57 Tyrell Ward (Xavier)
• No. 59 Aidan Shaw (Missouri)
• No. 60 Isaac McKneely (Virginia)
• No. 62 Dylan Anderson (Arizona)
• No. 64 Derrian Ford (Arkansas)
• No. 68 Tre Holloman (Michigan State)
• No. 69 Jayden Epps (Illinois)
• No. 70 Daniel Skillings (Cincinnati)
• No. 71 BJ Edwards (Tennessee)
• No. 73 Brendan Hausen (Villanova)
• No. 75 Devin Ree (LSU)
• No. 77 Alex Karaban (UConn)
• No. 78 Emanuel Sharp (Houston)
• No. 80 Justin Taylor (Syracuse)
• No. 81 Austin Nunez (Arizona State)
• No. 82 Chandler Jackson (Florida State)
• No. 84 De’Ante Green (Florida State)
• No. 87 Taylor Hendricks (UCF)
• No. 88 Otega Oweh (Oklahoma)
• No. 90 Kaleb Banks (Indiana)
• No. 91 Favour Aire (Uncommitted)
• No. 92 Cameron Corhen (Florida State)
• No. 93 Tyler Nickel (North Carolina)
• No. 94 Barry Dunning (Arkansas)
• No. 97 Noah Clowney (Alabama)
• No. 98 Kimani Hamilton (Uncommitted)
• No. 99 Denver Anglin (Georgetown)
• No. 100 Ven-Allen Lubin

This list will be updated.