Texas among top contenders for 5-Star PF Koa Peat

With one elite blue-chip power forward already signed in the 2025 recruiting class, Texas is still pursuing 5-Star big man Koa Peat on the trail from Arizona.

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Texas basketball and head coach Rodney Terry are still targeting a handful of priority prospects on the recruiting trail for the 2025 class a couple of months after early signing day back in November. Texas's only signee during the early signing period for the 2025 class was high-four-star power forward John Clark.

Priority 5-Star 2025 PF Koa Peat still has Texas basketball in the mix late in this recruiting cycle before the spring

Arguably, the Longhorns' top out-of-state priority on the trail in the 2025 class before the late signing period in a few months is the elite five-star Gilbert (AZ) Perry power forward Koa Peat. Terry and the Longhorns staff have been involved in Peat's recruitment going back a few years.

Texas was one of the first major conference programs to offer Peat back in the spring of 2021.

Peat included Texas among his top five finalist schools that he recently announced on social media in the past couple of months. The Arizona State Sun Devils, Arizona Wildcats, Houston Cougars, Baylor Bears, and Texas all cracked Peat's final five schools.

Texas has some work to do in this recruitment, though, to make up ground with the leading Arizona schools. The in-state ties for Peat to Arizona and Arizona State, combined with the hot start for the Wildcats to Big 12 play, has helped those schools build a lead in this recruitment over the past few months on the trail.

On3 reported on Jan. 8 that Texas, Arizona, and Arizona State are the three schools in the top group for Peat in the late stages of his recruitment. If Texas makes a big push for Peat on the trail, there is still the possibility that the Longhorns can win this recruitment in the coming weeks and/or months for the 2025 class before the late signing period.

Peat officially visited Texas in the fall of 2023. He's officially visited all schools he had previously named among his top five finalists, with the most recent trip in-state going to Tucson to see the Wildcats in early October.

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