Class of 2025 five-star guard Braylon Mullins chooses UConn

Another class of 2025 Indiana basketball recruiting target is off the board.

Braylon Mullins, the frontrunner for Indiana’s 2025 Mr. Basketball Award, committed to UConn Wednesday evening.

The Greenfield-Central star chose the Huskies over Indiana and North Carolina. He made his announcement live on 247Sports from the gym at Greenfield-Central.

“I felt like it was the best spot for me out of the three finalists I had,” Mullins said following the announcement. “I didn’t want to play for any other coach than coach (Dan) Hurley. He’s a player’s coach. And player development was definitely a key piece for my development. I knew he would get me somewhere with my goals, so I wanted to play for him.”

The decision by Mullins pulls another highly-touted prospect off the board of available prospects for the Hoosiers. Indiana hosted the five-star guard for an official visit last month on the same weekend as Trent Sisley and Eric Reibe.

Sisley chose the Hoosiers and Reibe committed to UConn.

According to the 247Sports composite rankings, Mullins is regarded as the No. 23 prospect in the 2025 class.

The decision by Mullins is a setback for Indiana, which spent significant time recruiting Mullins the past few seasons. The Hoosiers offered him a scholarship more than a year ago. However, after a standout spring and summer recruitment with Indiana Elite, his recruitment went national.

Mullins also had scholarship offers from Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Kansas, Michigan, Purdue and Duke.

As a junior at Greenfield-Central, Mullins led the program to a 24-1 record. He averaged 25 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.2 steals and shot 43 percent on 3s.

Indiana is still involved with several prospects in the rising senior class. However, as prospects continue to come off the board, it’s increasingly likely that the Hoosiers will have to be heavily involved in the transfer portal market next spring.

Indiana signed six players from the transfer portal last spring and added just one freshman, Bryson Tucker, to the 2025-26 roster.

In May, at Huber’s Winery in Borden, Indiana, Mike Woodson said the days of signing a large group of high school players were over.

“It’s what it is. You just don’t know. I would love to grow a team with high school kids, they stay with me for four years, man, but those days are gone, man,” Woodson said. “You’ll get a player that’s disgruntled and ‘hey, I want more minutes.’ I’m trying to put together a team where you can’t worry about minutes. It’s gotta be about team. And you gotta commit to team because then everything else takes care of itself, man.

“And that’s with any coach in college basketball. That’s what you gotta navigate, man, because everybody wants to play, everybody wants to go to the NBA, well, shit that’s not realistic. You can’t play everybody 40 minutes. Everybody is not going to play in the NBA. And that’s being real from a guy that spent 34 years of his life there. It’s what it is.”

While Indiana’s high school recruiting classes under Woodson have been small, he’s inked numerous highly-ranked prep prospects during his tenure in Bloomington.

Since Woodson arrived at IU in the spring of 2021, Indiana has signed five Recruiting Services Ranking Index (RSCI) top 30 recruits: Mackenzie Mgbako, Tucker, Jalen Hood-Schifino, Malik Reneau and Tamar Bates.

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