Paul Biancardi updated his ESPN Top 100 rankings for the high school basketball recruiting class of 2025 on Thursday and several Virginia men’s basketball recruiting targets rose in the rankings. A total of seven players who have either included the Cavaliers in their most recent cut lists or have scheduled official visits (or have already taken official visits) to UVA are included in the most recent edition of the ESPN Top 100.
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Consensus five-star small forward Nate Ament continues to be one of the top overall prospects in the class of 2025. The Virginia native was ranked No. 8 in the Top 100 back in early July and Biancardi now has him ranked No. 4 overall. Ament has taken multiple unofficial visits to UVA and is expected to take an official visit to Virginia on the weekend of September 13th.
JJ Mandaquit, London Jemison, and Keyshuan Tillery were ranked No. 48, No. 49, and No. 50, respectively, in the ESPN Top 100 back in July. In this week’s update, Biancardi has moved each of those players up one spot, so Mandaquit is now No. 47, Jemison is No. 48, and Tillery is No. 49. Mandaquit and Jemison are expected to take official visits to Virginia on the weekend of September 27th and Tillery just visited UVA last weekend.
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Derek Dixon had the biggest jump of any UVA recruiting target in the ESPN Top 100, moving up five spots from No. 56 to No. 51. A combo guard from Washington, D.C., Dixon took an official visit to Virginia back in April and is expected to announce his college decision by the end of the month.
Finally, two UVA basketball recruiting targets stayed put in the ESPN Top 100, as Washington, D.C. small forward Cam Ward is still No. 53 and Charlottesville point guard Chance Mallory is No. 85. Mallory is expected to visit UVA officially on September 13th, the same weekend as Ament, and Ward has not scheduled an official visit yet, though he did already visit the Cavaliers unofficially over the summer.
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