Aaliyah Chavez, the nation’s No. 1 recruit in the 2025 class and the sole uncommitted player left in ESPN’s HoopGurlz top-100 ranking, announced her commitment to Oklahoma on Tuesday afternoon. She chose the Sooners over Texas Tech, Texas, LSU, South Carolina and UCLA.
“I’m not just joining a program, I’m joining a family,” Chavez said. “I’m ready to give my all to make this my home and bring a national championship to the city of Norman.”
Chavez, the Gatorade national player of the year, joins a Sooners recruiting class that already includes guard Keziah Lofton and forward Brooklyn Stewart, the 50th and 62nd-ranked players, respectively, in 2025. The group was ranked No. 25 in ESPN’s most recent ranking of the top-25 recruiting classes at the beginning of March, but Chavez’s commitment should vault them into at least the top 20.
“They have great coaches, coaches that I have been talking to since I was in eighth grade,” Chavez said. “They match how I want to play. I want to play fast and that’s why I chose (Oklahoma).”
The 5-foot-11 point guard hailing from Lubbock, Texas, won the 5A Texas state championship earlier this month with her Monterey High School team. She scored 19 points in the title game en route to being named…
