Jeff Borzello
Paul Biancardi
Paul Biancardi
Basketball Recruiting
Nationwide Recruiting Director for ESPN.com
18 years of teaching expertise at Division I stage
Former Horizon League coach of the 12 months at Wright State
Prime-25 senior Braylon Mullins dedicated to UConn on Wednesday, giving Dan Hurley and the Huskies their third top-25 dedication within the 2025 class.
Mullins selected UConn over dwelling state Indiana and North Carolina, taking official visits to all three applications and internet hosting coaches from all three faculties a number of instances over the previous month.
“I felt like enjoying for Coach Hurley was the most effective resolution and match for myself,” Mullins instructed ESPN. “Coming off back-to-back nationwide championships, he understands successful and that meant quite a bit to me.”
Hurley and his employees turned up the warmth on Mullins final spring, extending a scholarship provide after which bringing him on campus in the summertime. Mullins pointed to the connection he developed with Hurley — in addition to the prospect to win a title — as the important thing elements in his dedication.
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“I additionally had a terrific relationship with Coach Hurley. We might textual content, discuss, FaceTime,” Mullins stated. “The connection I constructed with him and successful nationwide championships got here collectively and helped me and my resolution. A nationwide championship is the final word aim while you go to school. I wish to have an opportunity for that.”
“[Hurley is a] very upfront particular person,” Mullins continued. “He’ll make you’re employed exhausting. He provides you exhausting teaching. Some folks do not prefer it. It brings the most effective out of me.”
A 6-foot-5 capturing guard from Greenfield Central Excessive College (Indiana), Mullins is among the premier scorers and shooters within the 2025 class. He is ranked No. 24 within the ESPN 100, boosting his inventory significantly throughout his spring and summer time with Indiana Elite on the Adidas 3SSB circuit after battling a stress fracture throughout the highschool season.
In 17 video games on the 3SSB circuit, Mullins averaged 19.4 factors and shot 47.3% from 3-point vary — making at the very least 4 3-pointers in 9 video games. He went 6-for-6 from 3 throughout a Might sport towards Upward Stats and hit eight 3-pointers in an April sport towards DreamVision.
Mullins is greater than only a shooter, with the power to learn the protection, make good selections and be an efficient playmaker in both transition or the half courtroom. He is a motion shooter who understands methods to transfer with out the ball and get open.
“Braylon is a terrific decision-maker, at all times making the appropriate play on the proper time,” Greenfield Central coach Luke Meredith stated. “He is the most effective shooter within the nation in my view. Nice imaginative and prescient, good measurement for his place, keen passer, good with each palms ending and passing and an elite basketball IQ besides. Only a particular participant and a fair higher younger man.”
Mullins is UConn’s third top-25 dedication within the 2025 class — just one different faculty has a number of top-25 recruits already within the fold (Duke, with two).
Mullins joins Darius Adams (No. 19), who introduced in late September, and Eric Reibe (No. 23), who dedicated final week. In accordance with ESPN Analysis, that is the primary time for the reason that ESPN recruiting database began in 2007 that UConn has had a number of top-25 recruits in the identical class.
The Huskies have now landed 10 ESPN 100 prospects over the previous three lessons.
