The recruiting wheel never seems to stop spinning for college basketball coaches, taking up most of their time during the offseason while adding to their responsibilities in-season.

BYU coach Kevin Young altered the course of his 2025 recruiting cycle after landing top overall recruit AJ Dybantsa.

“Once we got AJ committed, and we knew he was coming along, we pushed pause on all of our recruiting,” Young said at Big 12 media day in Kansas City this week. “We pretty much stopped recruiting any other high school player, including like, really, really good players, in terms of five-star guys, international guys if they were young.”

An athletic 6-foot-9 forward, Dybantsa had his choice of schools as the top-rated class-of-2025 recruit in the 247 Sports composite.

When he opted to play at B

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