Four-star point guard JJ Mandaquit released his top nine on Monday with Tennessee basketball making the cut. BYU, California, Creighton, Hawaii, Louisville, Southern Cal, Virginia and Washington joined the Vols in Mandaquit’s top group.
Madaquit also has official visits lined up to BYU, Cal, Creighton, Louisville, Southern Cal, Virginia and Washington but hasn’t lined up a visit to Tennessee yet. If the Vols want to become real players in Madaquit’s recruitment then they’ll need to get him on campus sometime in the coming months.
NEWS: 2025 four-star PG JJ Mandaquit is down to nine schools, he tells @On3Recruits.
The Top-50 recruit has scheduled seven official visits (On3+): https://t.co/fYP5eQX4s5 pic.twitter.com/TeBjTpX956
— Joe Tipton (@TiptonEdits) August 19, 2024
Mandaquit ranks as a four-star recruit and the No. 53 player in the country according to the 247sports composite rankings. The 6-foot-1, 190-pound prospect also ranks as the No. 8 point guard and the No. 3 player in the state of Utah in the 2025 recruiting cycle.
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The blue-chip point guard is a Hilo, Hawaii native originally but player his high school basketball at Utah Prep School in Hurriance, Utah.
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 as well as incoming transfers Chaz Lanier, Darlinstone Dubar and Igor Milicic.
