During the fall recruiting season, the Syracuse basketball staff is anticipated to target one of the best big players in the 2026 class.
According to top 247Sports national analyst Dushawn London, the Orange coaching staff will evaluate 2026 four-star center Keiner Asprilla.
The 7-foot Asprilla, a top-50 national junior talent, attends Saint Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City, New Jersey.
According to his X profile, Asprilla currently has over ten scholarship offers. It wouldn’t surprise me if the ‘Cuse awarded him a scholarship on Sunday.
According to his X account, Asprilla’s full offer sheet includes colleges like Pepperdine, Missouri, Kansas, Villanova, LSU, Seton Hall, UCF, Auburn, Bryant, Kansas State, and Northern Illinois.
Asprilla competed for the 17U team of the New York Renaissance at the annual Peach Jam event in North Augusta, South Carolina, which is run by Nike’s EYBL circuit.
According to the EYBL’s website, at Peach Jam, Asprilla averaged 7.0 points and 8.0 rebounds in 18.6 minutes per game. Several national experts and scouts lauded him for his performance at the Peach Jam event.
Asprilla is ranked in the top 50 nationally for the 2026 class by nearly every major recruiting agency. At the time of writing, the industry-generated 247Sports Composite ranked him No. 41 overall, No. 2 at center, and No. 2 in New Jersey.
Within his cycle, Asprilla ranked No. 40 nationally, No. 2 at center, and No. 3 in New Jersey, according to the industry-generated On3 Industry Ranking.
I know of at least 15 high school juniors who have received scholarship offers from Syracuse basketball, the most recent being four-star small forward and top-55 national prospect Vaughn Karvala of Oregon High School in Oregon, Wisconsin.
Many of the 2026 prospects have received offers, including point guards, shooting guards, and small forwards on the wing. The Orange have offered one center in the junior cycle: four-star Aliou Dioum, a top-70 national talent from CIA Bella Vista in Phoenix.
The 6-foot-11 Dioum, a top-10 center in the 2026 class, revealed his Syracuse basketball scholarship offer on October 30.
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