UIL constitution college Oak Cliff Religion Household has angered a whole lot of Dallas-area coaches this offseason by including no less than six high-profile recruits as transfers for women basketball.
Now, its extremely profitable boys basketball program has added four-star senior King Grace, the seventh-ranked capturing guard within the nation within the Class of 2025.
Waxahachie coach Corey Johnson mentioned Saturday that Grace has transferred to Religion Household after averaging 22 factors, 2.1 assists, 4.3 rebounds and 1.5 steals to earn all-state and all-area honors whereas main Waxahachie to the Class 6A Area II quarterfinals. Grace, who lists presents from Houston, Texas Tech, Cincinnati, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Kansas State, LSU, TCU and SMU, joins a Religion Household group that gained three consecutive Class 4A state titles and is shifting as much as 5A this season.
Additionally, Religion Household seems to have come near including four-star small ahead Seven Spurlock, who performed at Frisco Memorial the final two years and is a top-100 nationwide recruit within the Class of 2026. Spurlock is transferring to Prolific Prep in California, 247Sports reported earlier this month, however there have been experiences from nationwide media through the spring and summer time that he frolicked at Religion Household, which Memorial coach Quinton Gibson confirmed Saturday.
“He had left us and went to Religion Household for a bit of bit,” Gibson mentioned.
UIL guidelines prohibit college students from transferring for athletic functions, and opposing coaches are upset that Religion Household has been in a position to construct a dynasty on the boys aspect and is within the course of of making a potential tremendous group in women basketball whereas having bigger geographic boundaries than conventional public faculties as a result of it’s a constitution college. Religion Household, which has by no means been discovered by the UIL to have damaged any guidelines, dominated 4A with the likes of NBA champion Jordan Walsh of the Boston Celtics and marquee recruits T.J. Caldwell (now at Ole Miss), Doryan Onwuchekwa (now at Georgia Tech) and JT Toppin (now at Texas Tech) whereas successful 4 state titles within the final six years.
There have been a rash of elite boys basketball recruits leaving Dallas-area faculties as transfers this offseason. Most have headed out of state.
Grace, rated the sixth-best recruit in Texas and the 52nd-best participant within the nation, was one in all two standouts that Waxahachie misplaced. 4-star senior middle Parker Jefferson, the Twelfth-ranked recruit in Texas, mentioned Saturday that he has transferred to Inglewood Excessive College in California.
“I’m not shocked by any motion that occurs in highschool basketball,” Johnson mentioned. “For us, what we will do when they’re at our college is give them our all, and no matter determination {that a} household makes that they really feel like is finest for them, I sort of go away that as much as the household.”
5-time state champion Duncanville additionally misplaced a star participant, as four-star small ahead BJ Davis-Ray transferred to JSerra Catholic in California, Duncanville coach David Peavy mentioned Saturday. Davis-Ray was the ninth-ranked recruit in Texas within the Class of 2025.
Hyperlink Academy in Missouri has added four-star small ahead Trent Perry from Frisco Lone Star and four-star guard Keonte Greybear from Frisco Emerson. Perry was rated the fifth-best participant in Texas within the Class of 2026 and was a second-team all-area choice final season.
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