UNC Basketball: Top-Ranked Recruit Announces In-State Transfer

Five-star UNC basketball target Tyran Stokes is heading to Southern California for his junior year of high school.

UNC basketball is in contention for the top-ranked prospects on both the 2025 and 2026 recruiting trails. Five-star forwards AJ Dybantsa, No. 1 among the nation's rising high school seniors, and Tyran Stokes, sitting atop the 2026 rankings ever since Dybantsa's reclassification to 2025 back in the fall, spent last season at powerhouse Prolific Prep just north of San Francisco.

And on Saturday afternoon, Stokes made public his decision to transfer to Notre Dame High School, located just outside Los Angeles in Sherman Oaks, for his junior campaign.Shortly after advertising his transfer, the 6-foot-7, 235-pound enforcer and the 6-foot-9, 200-pound Dybantsa combined for 46 points in their Oakland Soldiers' 23-point victory at the prestigious Peach Jam prep showcase in North Augusta, S.C.Tyran Stokes grew up a UNC basketball fan.

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