Four-star combo guard Josiah Sanders released his top five including Tennessee basketball on Saturday afternoon. The Vols joined Colorado, Northwestern, San Diego State and Stanford in the 6-foot-4 guard’s top group.
NEWS: Josiah Sanders, On3’s No. 136 overall recruit in the 2025 class, has narrowed his list of schools to five, he tells @On3Recruits.
The 6-4 Combo Guard breaks down each of his finalists and has set official visits to each program (On3+): https://t.co/rl8mf9y4xi pic.twitter.com/DwJUMcFP4r
— Joe Tipton (@TiptonEdits) August 10, 2024
Sanders ranks as a four-star recruit and the No. 115 player in the 2025 recruiting cycle according to the 247sports composite rankings. The Denver native also ranks as the No. 15 combo guard and the top player in the state of Colorado in his class.
The home state Buffaloes are the only school that Sanders has visited in his top group but he has official visits scheduled to all five schools for this fall. Sanders scheduled his official visit to Tennessee for Sept. 14— the same weekend that Tennessee faces Kent State in football. His trip to Knoxville is his third of five official visits scheduled for this fall.
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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.
