Preseason POY Tracker: Dybansta Edges Boozer!

A.J. Dybansta, the nation’s high prospect who continues to be undecided on his faculty vacation spot, leads race within the 2024-25 Mr. Basketball USA Tracker powered by Ballislife.com. The 6-foot-8 small ahead at Utah Prep (Hurricane, Utah) edged Cam Boozer of Columbus (Fla.), the 2022-23 Mr. Basketball USA selection, in a decent race amongst 22 candidates. The Mr. Basketball USA Tracker is now in its eighteenth season.

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As a sophomore in 2022-23, Duke-bound Cameron Boozer of preseason FAB 50 No. 1 Columbus (Miami, Fla.) made historical past by turning into the first sophomore ever to be bestowed with essentially the most prestigious particular person honor in highschool basketball.

Boozer was a shock winner, not due to his talent-level, however as a result of no sophomore within the historical past of the sport had ever been touted so extremely, not even all-timers comparable to Lew Alcindor or LeBron James. As a junior in 2023-24, Boozer went from the hunter to the hunted, as gamers as Dylan Harper (Rutgers) and Cooper Flagg (Duke) emerged as the highest Mr. Basketball USA candidates alongside the returning nationwide participant of the yr. After Flagg re-classified to the 2024 class and led his crew to a wire-to-wire end within the FAB 50 National Team rankings, he emerged because the 2024 Mr. Basketball USA honoree.

In October of 2023, A.J. Dybansta, an extremely proficient wing who transferred from St. Sebastian’s Faculty (Needham, Mass.) to Prolific Prep (Napa, Calif.), was one other elite participant who re-classified, in his case from the 2026 to the 2025 class. Dybansta emerged as a critical nationwide participant of the yr candidate as properly and wound up No. 4 within the remaining 2023-24 Mr. Basketball USA balloting behind Flagg, Harper (No. 2) and Boozer (No. 3).