Darius Adams has heard from nearly 15 college basketball programs since decommitting from UConn on Saturday, according to national recruiting analyst Travis Branham. The La Porte (Ind.) La Lumiere School product and 2025 McDonald’s All-American is the No. 26 overall prospect and No. 4 combo guard in the class of 2025 and the highest-ranked uncommitted player. Several of the nation’s top programs — Tennessee, UNC, Maryland, Indiana and Alabama — are showing interest.
“Since Adams has reopened his recruitment, he’s already heard from nearly 15 schools,” Branham said, via the “College Basketball Show” on Tuesday. “That comes as no surprise. He’s a McDonald’s All-American and one of the top high school players in the country. Tennessee is one of the schools that is showing interest and could really pick up some steam with Adams. Tennessee recruited him heavily out of high school. They finished in his finalists. Tennessee missed out on Rodney Rice. I’ve also been told that North Carolina has shown interest, as has Maryland, Indiana and Alabama, among others. While this is open, I am told that this thing can move fairly quickly.”
Adams committed to UConn in September over finalists Michigan State and Tennessee. Alabama was also a key player in his recruitment before he picked the Huskies. He visited Knoxville two weeks before his commitment to the Huskies.
“Coach (Rick) Barnes is hard on his players, but I like that,” Adams said of Tennessee after the visit. “It’s good seeing such an (established) coach practice and practice for a long time. It was good to see, for sure. I want a coach that cares for his players. Not just for their skills, but one that really cares and one that’s going to push me to be my best. And a winning program and obviously a style of play I can play in and somewhere I can go in right away and play.”
Scouts view Adams as a high-level scorer and confident shooter from deep. He’s garnered a reputation for his basketball IQ and ability to mesh with other talented players.
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“Adams is a skilled and smooth guard with good positional size at 6-foot-5 and an instinctive feel for the game,” director of scouting Adam Finkelstein wrote in his scouting report. “He’s a multi-dimensional scoring threat who can make threes and mid-range pull-ups in a variety of different ways. The long-range shooting projects as the first domino in his individual offense at the next level. He has good touch, a fairly compact and very repeatable release, both as a spot-up threat, and with flashes of movement shooting as well. He is skilled, smooth, smart, has good size, and his best basketball still in front of him as he continues to make strides physically.”
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