We’re about to hit arguably the most important stretch of the 2025 college basketball recruiting calendar.
Four evaluation periods – meaning college coaches are permitted to watch potential recruits in person at NCAA certified events – will take place over the next month. The NEPSAC Scholastic Showcases will cover the next two weekends, and the July live periods will include national championships for the various AAU circuits. The book has essentially been closed on the 2025 class, and the 2026 class has come into focus.
The recruiting trajectories will soon change for prospects all around the country, especially the rising senior class – many of which will eye commitments later in the summer and into the fall. Before then, it’s a good time for a quick check-in. There have been various recruiting developments around New England in the last couple months. Some prospects have had meteoric stock-rising spring seasons that warrant further acknowledgement, other top recruits are starting to set up official visits and there have even been a few early commitments.
Here are six takeaways from the latest in recruiting around the region.
Amir Jenkins is having an exciting June
The nationally-ranked guard from Worcester Academy has spearheaded BABC’s 34-0 run this spring, and he’s continuing to be recognized as one of the best prospects in the country. He was invited to the NBPA Top 100 camp last week in Rock Hill, S.C., where he played for former NBA player John Wall’s team. It was a memorable experience for Jenkins (Worcester, Mass.), who wanted to see how he stacked up against the nation’s best. He rubbed elbows with Kyrie Irving, Shaun Livingston and Isaiah Thomas in addition to Wall, who was a player he looked up to growing up.
“During the games he was just telling me different stuff he sees,” Jenkins said of Wall. “He told me to keep going and I’m nice and I’m cool with it, just keep going.”
It’s a big month for Jenkins, who has official college visits scheduled. He will visit Providence on June 24, and he plans to take visits to Xavier and West Virginia before the end of June. Providence was the first high-major school to offer him last summer, and he said the communication with their coaching staff has been consistent since. He took an unofficial visit to PC for their Midnight Madness last season, and has maintained good relationships with head coach Kim English and assistant Corey Wright.
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Jenkins said he hasn’t targeted a college decision date yet, but knows what the best fit will look like.
“The right school is family-oriented,” Jenkins said. “I want to feel like I’m at home, and I want to play my type of basketball, I want to fit the style of play, like I want to go to a school that’s going to fit my style of play and I’m going to help them win. I just want to win at all times.”
Quinn Costello continues meteoric rise
Costello (Medford, Mass.) has arguably been the biggest stock-riser in the country this spring, and it went up a level last week. The 6-foot-10 Newman and Middlesex Magic forward was a late addition to the NBPA Top 100 camp, and once again made a huge impression. He was the camp’s most efficient scorer at 1.36 points per possession. The next closest finished at 1.23.
In a span of 24 hours last Thursday and Friday, Costello received nine scholarship offers, and he now holds 18 high-major offers in total. When 24/7 Sports updated its Class of 2026 national rankings this week, Costello cracked the Top 100 at No. 74. His rise is reminiscent of several Magic players of the past whose recruitments blew open with monster springs; add Costello to the list that includes Pat Connaughton, JP Estrella and Ryder Frost.
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Class of 2026 commitments starting to roll in
It’s obviously early. The June and July live periods haven’t yet begun and most of the rising senior class won’t start making college commitments until later in the summer and the fall before the school season begins. But a handful of prospects around New England have gotten a head start. On April 15, Notre Dame-West Haven and Middlesex Magic wing Landon Krygier announced his commitment to Sacred Heart. Earlier this month, Newman rising seniors Timmy Bollin and Louis O’Keefe announced their commitments to Brown and Princeton, respectively.
Bollin, who plays for the Magic, and O’Keefe were both instrumental in Newman’s NEPSAC Class AAA championship this winter. Bollin, at 6-foot-6, has elite hustle, competitiveness and intangibles on both ends of the floor. O’Keefe has won games for Newman with his shotmaking. I think they’ll both impact winning at a high level in the Ivy League, and they’ll be key components this winter as Newman looks to repeat.
Theo Edema’s stock is soaring
The Cushing and Team New England 7-foot center has been on the local radar for at least the last year, but now he’s starting to go national. He might be New England’s biggest stock-riser this spring in the 2027 class. You can’t argue with the offers he’s received in the last month: Kansas, Alabama, Villanova, Oklahoma State and Tennessee. He’s officially high-major.
It’s no surprise; Edema is a skilled 7-footer who’s an elite rim protector and a capable shooter. There aren’t many of those. I was talking to one of his coaches a few weeks ago who said that the next step for him is figuring out how to handle success while staying hungry for more and doing the right things in his development – and he’s doing that. He’s added five pounds of muscle this spring and he’s on the right trajectory. The best is yet to come for Edema, who I believe should be nationally-ranked by the end of the grassroots season.
The 2027 clock has started ticking
June 15 marked the first day that college coaches are permitted to contact recruits in the 2027 class, and several prospects around the region have attracted immediate interest. Antonio Pemberton, the top guard in the region’s 2027 class, got an offer from Maryland just after midnight before getting Oklahoma State and Penn State. Josiah Adamson (Boston, Mass.), the guard for CATS and Expressions Elite, announced an offer from Old Dominion. Dozens of others got phone calls and interest from several schools.
It’s a good reminder that recruits should be exercising caution during the recruiting process, especially this early. As our Ethan Fuller wrote in this feature last summer, there is nothing tangible or binding about a verbal offer. And in the era of the transfer portal and NIL, they mean even less.
Full-circle moment for Sebastian Wilkins
Sebastian Wilkins (Canton, Mass.) was the last big piece of New England’s 2025 recruiting class when he announced his commitment to Duke on May 23. In one way, the 6-foot-8 forward’s pledge to the Blue Devils was written in the stars. Wilkins’ first Instagram post was a photo gallery of his visit to Duke in April 2019. In the caption, he wrote, “got to visit my future college. Duke blue devils.” Six years later, he made it happen.
Wilkins announced his scholarship offer from Duke on April 18, exactly six years after that Instagram post. A pretty neat full-circle moment for one of New England’s biggest stars.
