With Tennessee students and basketball players back on campus for the start of the school year, the Vol basketball program is starting to host recruits on campus. That started this weekend with four-star shooting guard Dante Allen currently on his official visit to Tennessee.
Allen ranks as a four-star recruit and the No. 77 player in the country according to the 247sports recruiting rankings. The 6-foot-3, 210-pound guard also ranks as the No. 12 sooting guard and the No. 13 player in the state of Florida in the 2025 recruiting cycle. Allen is a Miami native but is playing his senior high school basketball at Montverde Academy outside of Orlando. He went to the Riviera Preparatory School where he helped lead the Bulldogs to a 25-8 record for his junior season.
The blue-chip guard previously released his top four that includes Georgia, Notre Dame, Villanova and Tennessee. Allen previously took an official visit to Notre Dame last summer and has an official visit scheduled to Georgia next weekend and to Villanova next month.
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The 2025 recruiting class is a critical one for Tennessee basketball. Tennessee definitively has eight scholarships to work with this offseason. Tennessee’s current roster contains only 11 scholarship players meaning the Vols are two under the limit entering the season. Rick Barnes’ 10th team at Tennessee also has six seniors including returners Zakai Zeigler, Jahmai Mashack and Jordan Gainey as well as incoming transfers Igor Milicic Jr (Charlotte), Darlinstone Dubar (Hofstra) and Chaz Lanier (North Florida).
With at least eight scholarships to work with this offseason, Tennessee will sign more high school prospects this cycle than they have in a number of years. The Vols last signed five recruits in the 2022 recruiting cycle and will likely be in that ballpark if not matching it in the 2025 cycle.
Tennessee currently holds one commit in its 2025 recruiting class with four-star center DeWayne Brown committing to the Vols back in the fall. 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. 21 recruiting class in the 2025 recruiting cycle according to the 247sports team rankings.
