{"id":4794,"date":"2025-10-02T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:02:12","slug":"junior-county-commits-to-uconn-as-part-of-2026-recruiting-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=4794","title":{"rendered":"Junior County commits to UConn as part of 2026 recruiting class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>Jeff Borzello<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\"><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"multi-authors\">Jeff Borzello<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source\">Basketball recruiting insider<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>Jeff Borzello is a basketball recruiting insider. He has joined ESPN in 2014.<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Paul Biancardi<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\"><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"multi-authors\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"author-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/biancardi_paul.png&amp;h=80&amp;w=80&amp;scale=crop.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paul Biancardi<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source\">Basketball Recruiting<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li> National Recruiting Director for ESPN.com\n<\/li>\n<li> 18 years of coaching experience at Division I level\n<\/li>\n<li> Former Horizon League coach of the year at Wright State<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"timestamp \">Oct 2, 2025, 11:31 AM ET<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Fast-rising four-star senior guard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/basketball\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/260139\/junior-county\">Junior County<\/a> told ESPN that he has committed to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c7561e25-c7f2-5ddd-4191-899a98236d54\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/41\/uconn-huskies\">UConn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>County, one of the top-five shooting guards in the 2026 class, chose the Huskies over a final list that also included <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c845c06f-f087-b63d-1bcc-8013bd715b59\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/12\/arizona-wildcats\">Arizona<\/a>, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e2d16cd8-2b1d-9683-9351-ea8ccc3892cb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/84\/indiana-hoosiers\">Indiana<\/a>, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5858f992-9c44-5441-8357-6b2af9bde93e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/120\/maryland-terrapins\">Maryland<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0abd1640-6f95-275f-418a-652659452398\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/2509\/purdue-boilermakers\">Purdue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After taking trips to each of his other finalists, County took his final visit to UConn last weekend, when the Huskies made their final pitch and secured his commitment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was the feeling I got while watching practice, talking to [coach Dan] Hurley and going around campus,&#8221; County told ESPN on Thursday. &#8220;I believe I&#8217;ll be able to develop and grow into the best version of myself while I&#8217;m there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Hurley&#8217;s trademark coaching style appealed to County.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a great relationship and I love the intensity,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s able to get the best out of his players every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 6-foot-4 combo guard who plays for Wasatch Academy (Utah), County is the No. 43 player overall in the SC Next 100, ranking as the No. 4 shooting guard. What stands out about County is his scoring versatility, along with his consistent intensity.<\/p>\n<p>County averaged 13.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists for the Utah Prospects on the Nike EYBL circuit last spring and summer, including a pair of 20-point outings and two games in which he knocked down four 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I&#8217;ll be able to make winning plays on both ends of the floor,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They see me being able to make those winning plays on and off the ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>County is Hurley&#8217;s first commitment in the 2026 class, after landing a top-five group in the 2025 class that featured two top-25 recruits in Braylon Mullins and Eric Reibe. It was the third straight top-10 class for the Huskies, who finished with the No. 8 class in 2024 and No. 3 in 2023 &#8212; winning back-to-back national championships in between.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/recruiting\/basketball\/story\/_\/id\/46465574\/junior-county-commits-uconn-part-2026-recruiting-class\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello Basketball recruiting insider Jeff Borzello is a basketball recruiting insider. He has joined ESPN in 2014. Paul Biancardi Close Paul Biancardi Basketball Recruiting National Recruiting Director for ESPN.com 18 years of coaching experience at Division I level Former Horizon League coach of the year at Wright State Oct 2, 2025, &#8230; <a title=\"Junior County commits to UConn as part of 2026 recruiting class\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=4794\" aria-label=\"Read more about Junior County commits to UConn as part of 2026 recruiting class\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Junior-County-commits-to-UConn-as-part-of-2026-recruiting.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4796,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/4796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}