Four-star combo guard Christian Jeffrey released his top eight including Tennessee basketball on Sunday night, 247sports Travis Branham first reported.
The Vols joined Butler, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi State, Oklahoma State, Penn State and Texas A&M in Jeffrey’s top group.
Top150 guard Christian Jeffrey has cut his list down to eight schools and scheduled his first official visit for the fall, he tells @247Sports.
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Jeffrey ranks as a four-star recruit and the No. 93 player in the 2025 recruiting cycle according to the 247sports composite rankings. The 6-foot-3, 200-pound prospect also ranks as the No. 14 combo guard in his recruiting class.
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The blue-chip recruit is a Brooklyn native but plays his prep basketball at Mt. Zion Prep in Maryland. Jeffrey took an official visit to Maryland earlier this summer and has an official visit scheduled to Butler next month.
Tennessee basketball currently holds one commit in its 2025 recruiting class and it comes from four-star center DeWayne Brown. The Hoover, Alabama native committed to the Vols over Mississippi State back in April. Brown’s commitment is good enough to give Tennessee the No. 19 recruiting class in the 2025 recruiting cycle according to the 247sports team rankings.
It’s still early in the 2025 recruiting cycle and the Vols have hosted a number of blue-chip prospects on campus including five-star Caleb Wilson, four-star Dakari Spear, four-star Aleks Alston and many more. They’re also hosting five-star combo guard Darius Adams on a visit later this fall.
In the new transfer portal era it is difficult to project how many scholarships that Tennessee will have to work with next offseason. But the Vols will definitively lose six seniors off their roster next season— Zakai Zeigler, Jahmai Mashack, Jordan Gainey and incoming transfers Chaz Lanier, Darlinstone Dubar and Igor Milicic.
