Darryn Peterson is considered a top-two prospect in college basketball ahead of the 2025-26 NCAA season. The combo guard enters the competition with high expectations, following a busy high school career that started at Cuyahoga Falls High School in Cuyahoga, Ohio, continued at Huntington Prep in West Virginia and ended at Prolific Prep.

Peterson has drawn high praise from analysts in recent months. His coach on the Kansas Jayhawks, Bill Self, is high on the freshman, too. A couple of months ago, Self explained the differences between Peterson’s expectations and former stars such as Andrew Wiggins or Joel Embiid:

“As a freshman coming in with the ability to put a team on his back, I’ll be honest, I don’t know if I’ve had [someone like Peterson],” Self said last month. “We didn’t ask Wigg

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