By SAM LANCE
Class of 2025 four-star big man Jaden Toombs has committed to SMU, he announced live to 247Sports.
Toombs — the 6-foot-10, 245-pound center from Dynamic Prep (TX) and the Drive Nation Nike EYBL AAU program — will be teaming up with Jermaine O’Neal Jr. The two are best friends and have been living together since eighth grade. They also play together on Drive Nation and at Dynamic Prep.
“It’s great to stay with him,” Toombs told ZAGSBLOG. “That’s like my brother… It definitely is a blessing.”
Andy Enfield now has two four-star prospects to start his 2025 class and first ever high school recruiting class as head coach of SMU.
“It’s a school that’s hungry for success joining the ACC,” Toombs said. “I have the chance to build something at home in Dallas.”
Dynamic Prep is about 30 minutes from SMU’s campus. Toombs and O’Neal Jr. will both have the chance to be hometown heroes.
“It’s great to have someone that I look at as a brother come to the same college as me,” O’Neal Jr. told ZAGSBLOG. “But it was never a priority for us. We have never talked about teaming up together because we both know we have separate paths and different obstacles we have to overcome for ourselves.”
SMU is in the mix for one of the best guards in the 2025 class as well, Jerry Easter, who officially visited this past weekend. Four-star power forward Sebastian Williams-Adams will be visiting the weekend of Sept. 27.
Toombs is ranked the No. 44 overall prospect in the 2025 class per 247Sports and the No. 6 overall center. His favorite NBA player is Nikola Jokić.
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