247Sports Rankings Update: Cooper Flagg, Cameron Boozer and AJ Dybantsa sit at the top of high school hoops

Cameron Boozer’s biggest competition for the top spot in the 2025 class will likely come from a prospect who’s not even in that class yet.

While he and Flagg were both played in the E16 division, it was Dybantsa (who played up in EYBL and led the entire Peach Jam in scoring) who had arguably the most polished individual offensive arsenal of the three.

Like Flagg, Dybantsa’s rate of improvement has been off the charts in recent months — particularly with the ball in his hands. He’s figured out his spots, improved his efficiency and developed an offensive game that transcends class.

Loved what I saw from AJ Dybantsa this weekend.

Transforming from an obviously talented young prospect to one of the best players in the EYBL.

Developing as a shooter, figuring out his spots, & starting to operate in offensive structure. https://t.co/9knlE5Fyjr pic.twitter.com/SfBdgo21Qm

— Adam Finkelstein (@AdamFinkelstein) May 14, 2023

Although he’s wowed evaluators with his rapid upward trajectory, Dybantsa has always been a basketball phenom. When talking to 247Sports’ Isaac Trotter, Dybantsa’s former coach at St. Sebastian (Mass.) Needham, Dave Hinman, revealed that 6-foot-7 small forward has been playing varsity high school hoops since he was in eighth grade. Even as an underdeveloped middle schooler, Dybantsa impacted winning. 

“I had seen him play and you’re like, ‘There’s no way this kid is in the eighth grade,’” a St. Sebastian’s rival coach at Phillips Andover Academy, Terrell Ivory, told Trotter. “We have to play against this kid? There was a lot of hype and he lived up to it in his eighth grade year.”

Now, it’s worth noting that Dybantsa is not your typical sophomore. Dybantsa isn’t just more proven, he’s also older. But stories like his eighth grade varsity dominance and what he did playing up in EYBL have only fueled rumors of his reclassification.