Tyran Stokes, 2027’s top high school basketball recruit, commits to Kansas, Bill Self
The top boys basketball player in the country has finally made his college decision and, surprise, it’s a blue blood.
Mar 31, 2026; Glendale, AZ, USA; Tyran Stokes (4) during the McDonalds All American Boys Game at Desert Diamond Arena. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images | Mark J.
Rebilas-Imagn Images Our long national… well, not really a nightmare, more that weird dream that doesn’t seem to end, anyway whatever, it’s over. Tyran Stokes has made his college decision official. It is not Kentucky.
It’s the other school that felt like a serious player in this recruitment all along: Kansas . Good for Bill Self, remarkably bad for Mark Pope. Kansas already had a 5-star signee in Taylen Kinney, one of the top point guards in the class of 2026.
Not just that, the Jayhawks had three other signees, so Stokes makes that five. Self could, feasibly, build a positionally sound lineup out of only his five high school signees, all but one of whom is ranked in the top-100 in 247Sports’ recruiting rankings. Kentucky had, uh, none of that.