-Class of 2026 Boys Recruiting Class Rankings

*Updated around the beginning of each month,

*Our rankings are based off of analysis of all three junior rankings metrics, and WAGR (for int'l athletes) for the athletes which we have received confirmation of commitment. We may not have full information regarding all of the top int'l athletes; please send us any information that we may be missing!

1. Vanderbilt University: Luke Colton, Tyler Mawhinney

2. University of Georgia: Hamilton Coleman, Drew Woolworth, Mason Howell

3. University of Tennessee: Tyler Watts, Pennson Badgett

4. University of Alabama: Phillip Dunham, Bailey Sutter

5. University of Texas: Brooks Harper, Sterling Hurd

6. University of Virginia: Hugo Le Goff, Jager Pain

7. University of Arkansas: Lev Grinberg, Neo Berg

8. University of Oklahoma: Coltrane Mittag, Max Emberson

9. Pepperdine University: Kailer Stone, Luke Ringkamp

10. University of North Carolina: Asher Vargas, Preston Hage

Teams to watch:

University of Illinois: Le Khanh Hung, Harrison Zipfel

Auburn University: Smith Summerlin, Alex Holder

Clemson University: Gabriel Holtz, Daniel McBrien

Arizona State University: Oscar Couilleau, Ching-Wei Hsieh, Raul Gomez

Texas A&M University: Landon Ashcraft, Owen Bolles

University of California, Los Angeles: Matthew Hull, Baron Nguyen

Georgia Tech: Patmon Malcolm, Brody McQueen

Brigham Young University: Drake Harvey, Austin Shelley

10/19: Auburn enters our top-10 list at #8, as they picked up their 2nd verbal commitment in this class from Indiana's Alex Holder, who is just working his way into national competition after a solid performance at the US Junior. The Tigers' top recruit is top-15 JGS ranked Smith Summerlin, who has several years of elite competitive results.

10/25 UNC Chapel Hill enters our top 10 list with their second commitment of this class, Preston Hage. He joins Asher Vargas, who has had a strong summer and sits just out of our top-10 individual list. After calculating our new individual rankings, we realized that we didn't give Pepperdine's athletes enough credit (yes, our bad), and we moved the Waves up to #8 on our list, just ahead of UNC at #9.

11/16 Virgina enters the top 10 at #6 with the commitment of Hugo Le Goff of France, who is 160th in WAGR rankings. The Cavaliers are making this an international class, as Le Goff joins Canadian Jager Pain, currently 28th in JGS. Auburn drops out of the top-10.

12/27: It's been quiet on the 2026 commitment front, and now that Blades Brown is turning pro, there may not be many shakeups in the rankings. Changes in rankings in 2025 will occur according to the performance of current commits.