The nation’s No. 1 basketball recruit, Tyran Stokes of Notre Dame (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), is not going to play highschool basketball his senior marketing campaign on the college in SoCal’s San Fernando Valley after Ballislife.com discovered he has been withdrawn from the college on Wednesday.
The information was confirmed by Notre Dame Athletic Director Alec Moss. There isn’t any affirmation of any reasoning for his withdrawal.
Stokes is likely one of the nation’s finest basketball prospects and at present ranked the No. 1 prospect within the nation by Rivals.com, ESPN.com and 247Sports.com.
He’s coming off a junior season through which he led Notre Dame’s to California’s No. 2 general rating with a 28-8 report and runner up end within the SoCal open regional playoffs. Notre Dame completed ranked No. 10 within the closing 2024-25 FAB 50 nationwide Group Rankings, as Stokes used his distinctive mixture of energy, explosiveness and competitiveness to common 21.0 ppg, 9.3 rpg and three.4 apg. Stokes was named the Cal-Hello Sports activities State Junior Participant of the Yr in addition to the Nationwide Junior of the Yr by Ballislife.com.
Notre Dame opened because the No. 10 workforce within the 2025-26 Preseason FAB 50 Nationwide Group Rankings, however not having the 6-foot-6, 225-pounder in its lineup clearly adjustments issues for a workforce that has targets of capturing the 2026 Mission League title, the CIF Southern Part open crown and CIF state open title. Sargeant will nonetheless discipline a superb workforce led by junior guard NoVarro Bowman Jr. (14 ppg) and San Diego St.-bound ahead Zach White (12.6 ppg), but it surely’s protected to say Notre Dame wouldn’t have opened up No. 10 within the nation if not for the presence of Stokes.
Tyran Stokes has withdrawn from Notre Dame. pic.twitter.com/PhvQ4SqfzK
— eric sondheimer (@latsondheimer) November 5, 2025
Stokes, who turned 18 on October 12, was on the Blue Knights’ soccer workforce however has not performed since Notre Dame beat L.A. Loyola on October 3. He performed a complete of two varsity soccer video games as a senior.
Stokes was closely recruited by many Blue Blood school basketball packages and the Louisville, Ky., native just lately narrowed his school selections to Oregon, Kentucky and Kansas. He performed his first two seasons of highschool basketball at Prolific Prep, a program that was then situated in Napa, Calif., however has since moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. and is the preseason No. 1 workforce within the 2025-26 FAB 50.
