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Kentucky basketball offers 2025 guard Brayden Burries

Kentucky basketball offers a scholarship to guard Brayden Burries for 2025.

Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope offered a scholarship to 2025 forward Tounde Yessoufou, and then continued to ramp up his work on next year’s class by also offering guard Brayden Burries.

Burries is currently rated five stars by 247sports, who have him rated as the 11th overall player in the class. The combo guard is rated as the third best at his position and the top player from the state of California.

Related: Braylon Mullins puts Kentucky in his top 10

The 6’4″, 200 lb Burries announced the offer from Kentucky on the social platform X. He also has outstanding offers from a number of other schools, including Ohio State, Alabama, Louisville, Duke, and Kansas among many others.

Getting Burries in for a visit to Lexington would ideally be the next move, and they’re sure to impress upon him how well he would fit in the Wildcats offense.

Pope and his staff are working hard on the 2025 class, and landing a combo of Burries and Yessoufou would be a great start to next year’s group.

Multiple Duke basketball players and recruiting targets participating in various offseason camps

Multiple Duke players, alums and recruiting targets participating in offseason camps.

The Duke Blue Devils basketball team has yet to start the season, but the summer is as pivotal as ever for players to improve their game. Whether it’s skill work, weight lifting, conditioning, or playing in actual games, this is the time to work on your craft.

For Duke, the team has moved to campus, practicing, working out, and bonding since June. With the calendar flip to July, things have changed slightly as this year’s roster members have been invited to various camps and player development sessions nationwide.

We documented in June that Cooper Flagg was selected as the only college player to be a part of the Select Team tasked with practicing with Team USA basketball as they prepare for the Olympics. We are now here to add that Tyrese Proctor and Sion James were invited to participate in the 2024 Chris Paul Elite Camp. In addition, freshmen wings Kon Knueppel and Isaiah Evans were selected to participate in Jayson Tatum’s Elite Camp.

There’s a Duke flavor at both camps. Paolo Banchero, a former Blue Devil, appeared at Paul’s and dominated the competition in some pickup games.

This is also an opportunity for Duke to use it as a mini-recruiting tool. Names like Nate Ament, Jalen Montonati, Nikolas Khamenia, Hudson Greer, Shelton Henderson, Acaden Lewis, and Brayden Burries are all receiving interest from Duke or have offers from Duke. It wouldn’t be farfetched to imagine the high schoolers chatting things up with Proctor, James, Knueppel, and Evans about Duke and what it feels like to be a Duke player.

Plus, it helps when Paolo Banchero and Jayson Tatum are there. It’s too early to tell, but maybe a year from now, we’ll look back and see how many commits for Duke were at these off-season camps.

 

 

Tennessee basketball offers 2025 five-star combo guard Brayden Burries

Tennessee basketball offers a scholarship to 2025 combo guard Brayden Burries.

Tennessee offered a scholarship to 2025 combo guard prospect Brayden Burries.

“University of Tennessee offered,” Burries said.

The 6-foot-4, 200-pound five-star combo guard is from Eleanor Roosevelt High School in San Bernardino, California.

Burries ranks as the No. 15 prospect in the class of 2025. He ranks as the No. 3 combo guard and No. 1 player in California, according to 247Sports.

Burries has scholarship offers from Tennessee, UCLA, TCU, Washington State, San Diego State, California Baptist, Cal Poly, Ohio State, Michigan, BYU, Louisville, Texas, Alabama, Arizona State, Vanderbilt, Illinois, Loyola Maryland, Duke, Arizona, LSU, Stanford, St. John’s, Minnesota, USC, Houston, Kansas, California and Washington.

Center DeWayne Brown is Tennessee’s only commitment in its 2025 recruiting class.

Ohio State basketball offers two new 2025 prospects on Tuesday

The Bucks sent out two new offers on Tuesday

Ohio State men’s basketball is still without at 2025 commitment, but the coaching staff is hard at work to change that soon.

On Tuesday, the Buckeyes offered two prospects, each of them in the current class. The first one went out to California shoot guard [autotag]Brayden Burries[/autotag], who at 6-foot, 4-inches and 200-pounds is one of the top players in the country.

The 247Sports Composite Rankings has him as the nations No. 13 overall prospect and 3rd rated shooting guard, giving him 5-star status. It’s no coincidence that the Buckeyes pulled the trigger after his performance at the Pangos All-American Camp, where 247Sports Brandon Jenkins has reported that Burries dominated the competition.

The other prospect that received an offer was New Hampshire point guard [autotag]Keyshuan Tillery[/autotag]. The 6-foot and 184-pounder isn’t as highly ranked, but still is the nations No. 167 overall prospect and 26th rated point guard according to the 247Sports Composite.

It’s great to see the Ohio State coaching staff looking all across the country for the right fits. Hopefully these two offers make an impact in each of their respective recruitments.

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Brayden Burries dominates The Throne to lead The Vale to championship

Roosevelt’s The Vale basketball team beat No. 3 Columbus to win The Throne behind five-star Brayden Burries’ dominant efforts.

Against some of the top competition in the nation, Roosevelt High School (Eastvale, Calif.) junior Brayden Burries proved why he’s a five-star recruit against some of the other top players in the class of 2025.

Burries led the Vale, Roosevelt’s team, to a championship in The Throne, a tournament between 16 teams. Eleven of the teams are ranked in the Super 25 national rankings and three have been ranked previously this season, making it a who’s-who of boys basketball.

The who’s-who is Burries, who recorded 34 points and 10 rebounds in the semifinals and then hit the game-winning and-one floater over the No. 3 team in the country, Columbus, in the waning seconds of the championship game:

He also hit a contested layup in the final minutes of semifinals, vitally important to clinching this game.

In doing so, he and Roosevelt showed they could match up with an elite unit at Columbus led by the Boozer twins, Cameron and Cayden. Ranked the No. 2 and No. 14, respectively, players in 247Sports’ 2025 composite rankings class of 2025, Burries’ success indicates his ranking at No. 12 may be too low despite the five-star mark.

Listed at 6-foot-4 and 200 pounds, Burries won MVP with averages of 27 points and eight rebounds in the tournament. In addition to his elite finals and semifinals outings, he recorded a 26-point, 10-rebound double-double in the quarterfinals. He drove and finished with poise and agility, as shown above and in this high-arching finish:

Roosevelt went 31-4 during its season, which put them at No. 19 in the Super 25 entering the week.  After losing to No. 5 Harvard-Westlake twice in the playoffs, this tournament ties a bow on an extremely impressive season, one in which the Mustangs were undoubtedly among the best in the nation.

At The Throne, they proved it.

LSU offers 4-star shooting guard from Riverside, California

There are currently no Crystal Ball projections for Brayden Burries, but Loyola Marymount is a 20% favorite to land him per On3.

[autotag]Matt McMahon[/autotag] and his recruiting staff have made a trip out west to California to check out one of the best shooting guards in the class of 2025.

[autotag]Brayden Burries[/autotag] is a 6-foot-4, 185-pound, 4-star shooting guard from Riverside, California, where he plays for Eleanor Roosevelt High School. The Eleanor Roosevelt Mustangs finished their 2022 season 23-7 with a loss to Heritage Christian in the playoffs.

There are currently no Crystal Ball projections for Burries, but Loyola Marymount is a 20% favorite to land him per On3.

LSU currently does not have any commits for the 2025 recruiting class but they have offered seven shooting guards.