Five-star forward Tounde Yessoufou is officially visiting Tennessee basketball on Sept. 14, On3’s Joe Tipton first reported on Friday morning.
Yessoufou ranks as a five-star recruit the No. 20 player in the 2025 recruiting cycle according to the 247sports composite rankings. The Santa Maria native also ranks as the No. 2 player in the state of California in his recruiting cycle.
A 6-foot-5, 211-pound forward, Yessoufou stars at St. Joseph High School in California where he helped lead the Knights to a 31-4 record last season. The blue-chip recruit averaged an impressive 32.3 points and 10.2 rebounds per game.
Yessoufou’s visit to Tennessee next month marks his first visit to see the Vols during his recruitment. So far in his recruitment, the five-star’s taken two visits to Arizona, one visit to Southern Cal and Washington and has upcoming official visits scheduled to Baylor as well as Tennessee.
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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. 20 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.
