{"id":7382,"date":"2025-07-13T19:43:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T19:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7382\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T19:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T19:43:04","slug":"tennessee-schedules-visit-with-4-star-pg-deron-rippey-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7382\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee schedules visit with 4-star PG Deron Rippey Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennessee Basketball<\/a> has reportedly scheduled an official visit with four-star point guard Deron Rippey Jr.<\/a>, according to Dushawn London<\/a>. The Vols will host Rippey on October 25-26, the last of eight official visits scheduled.\u00a0<\/p>\n

London on Saturday reported that Rippey will visit Kentucky first, August 1-3, followed by Miami (Aug. 27-29), North Carolina (Aug. 31-Sept. 2), Alabama (Sept. 12-14), Texas (Sept. 19-21), Syracuse (Sept. 26-29) and Indiana (Oct. 17-19).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rippey is a four-star prospect in the On3 Industry Ranking, coming in at No. 16 overall in the 2026 class. He\u2019s the No. 4 point guard in the class and the No. 1 player in New Jersey, where the Brooklyn, N.Y., native, attends Blair Academy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a five-star in the ESPN recruiting rankings, ranked No. 18 nationally, No. 5 at point guard and No. 1 in New Jersey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Point guard Deron Rippey Jr. \u2018is a blur athletically \u2026 makes natural reads\u2019<\/p>\n

Rippey was Saturday\u2019s MVP at the Adidas 3SSB event in South Carolina, according to On3\u2019s Jamie Shaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps no player has taken advantage of this week more than Deron Rippey<\/a>,\u201d Shaw wrote<\/a>. \u201cThe 6-foot-1 point guard is a blur athletically, but it is his pace that gets him to his spots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe makes natural reads with two feet in the paint, and he made shots today. Currently On3\u2019s No. 3 point guard in the 2026 class, he has very boldly staked his claim for a bump up the list. We will see how July finishes up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shaw reported that Tennessee was watching Rippey on Saturday, along with Alabama, Kentucky, Duke, Indiana, Louisville and North Carolina, among others.<\/p>\n

Who the Vols were watching during live-evaluation weekend<\/p>\n

Tennessee coaches also spent the weekend watching five-star shooting guard Caleb Holt<\/a>, four-star small forward Bo Ogden<\/a>, four-star power forward Latrell Almond<\/a>, four-star small forward Chris Washington<\/a> and four-star small forward Gage Mayfield<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Holt was another one of Shaw\u2019s standouts from Saturday\u2019s live-evaluation play in South Carolina.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a winning quality that Caleb Holt<\/a> brings each time he steps on the floor,\u201d Shaw wrote. \u201cWhether that is to make a hustle play, or score a pivotal bucket, or get a defensive stop, Holt seems to always be in the right place at the right time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 6-foot-5 shooting guard recently announced he would transfer to Fort Lauderdale (FL) Prolific Prep. He made shots today, along with finishing at the rim, and consistently making positive plays.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee Basketball has reportedly scheduled an official visit with four-star point guard Deron Rippey Jr., according to Dushawn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,4504,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-7382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-regwall","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}