BYU Recruiting Rumors: BYU the favorite to land AJ Dybantsa?

On a random afternoon, your phone starts to buzz. Lighting up your home screen, you can see that one of your buddies has just made an outrageous claim: BYU basketball is the team to beat in the recruiting race for AJ Dybantsa. Yes, the top recruit in the 2025 recruiting class--who recently transferred to Utah Prep and reportedly took a visit to BYU--apparently has a very strong interest in playing college hoops in Provo.

The Dybantsa conversation begins around the 42:00 mark.

"Who's the team to beat, if I were asking you right now for AJ Dybantsa? And immediately, you know what the guy said? BYU."

- CBS College Basketball

Unless you're close with AJ, and you aren't, you have no way of confirming this rumor. I mean that's crazy, right? Only a few months ago, such a report would be taken with a significant grain of salt, yet the recent momentum behind the BYU basketball program makes the news almost... believable.

It's like Monty Navarro being told that he may have a claim to the D'ysquith family fortune--his mother's maiden name on his birth certificate said D'ysquith, but why should he believe such a rumor when the source may not be rock-solid? Despite all this, both rumors seem to hold a degree of authenticity.

"When the casual college basketball fan hears that, they'd say "What?" but [it's] for real. He's going to school in Utah right now. BYU just hired a coach with a pro background."

Now, does this mean Dybantsa to BYU is a lock? No, of course not, straw-man. In the modern age of college hoops, nothing is a lock until the ink has dried on the NLI (and sometimes not even then). What this rumor does indicate, however, is that BYU basketball is moving in a very positive direction and a serious contender for the top talent in the nation. A year ago they'd be the last one you'd expect.

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