Fans of New England basketball will be following AJ Dybantsa wherever he goes. The next stop: Hurricane, Utah. Dybantsa, the consensus top 2025 boys player in the country and a Brockton, Mass., native, is transferring to Utah Prep for his senior season, joining a program that has rapidly ascended among national prep teams. Dybantsa spent...
Fans of New England basketball will be following AJ Dybantsa wherever he goes. The next stop: Hurricane, Utah.
Dybantsa, the consensus top 2025 boys player in the country and a Brockton, Mass., native, is transferring to Utah Prep for his senior season, joining a program that has rapidly ascended among national prep teams.
Dybantsa spent last season in California suiting up for perennial powerhouse Prolific Prep, and the previous two years in the NEPSAC at St. Sebastian’s.
He’s also playing AAU basketball in California this summer with the Oakland Soldiers in the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League.
A slender, 6-foot-8 wing, Dybantsa is widely considered the best high school basketball player in the country following the graduation of Cooper Flagg (Newport, Maine). He was the 2023 Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year as a freshman at St. Sebastian’s. Dybantsa averaged 21.2 points, 9.4 rebounds, and 3.5 assists in his lone season at Prolific Prep.
Utah Prep became its own entity just two years ago after splitting from RSL Basketball. It announced a move to a massive, 55-acre campus in Hurricane with the intent to build out a nationally-recognizable boys basketball team. Justin “LJ Yamzon” is the team’s head coach, and the roster also includes four-star guard JJ Mandaquit from Hawaii.
Utah Prep has already announced that it will participate in the 2025 Hoophall Classic, a yearly showcase in Springfield, Mass. for elite high school teams.
