Final NERR Rankings for 2025 Prospects

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I don’t think this was ever discussed on the basketball-u boards and I didn’t see it posted here. The final NERR ratings for 2025 published in August. Ryan Altman ended up the highest rated Ivy recruit (#13). Jay Jones was #27 and Payton Kamin was #42.

Other Ivy recruits:

  • Isaiah Langham - Brown - 22
  • Landon Clark - Princeton - 24
  • Jack Sullivan - Yale - 31
  • Ryan Sullivan - Harvard - 46
  • Charlie O’Sullivan - Brown - 53
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The above surprised me and I wanted to sanity check myself:

Ryan Altman is unusually high for an Ivy recruit on NERR — he finished inside the New England top-15 (NERR shows him as a top-15/New England finalist and the Ivy’s highest-rated commit this cycle). That’s notable — Ivy commits usually land outside the top-20 on NERR, though there are a handful of precedents (most notably Harvard’s Chris Ledlum in 2019, who was inside the top-10).

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  • Historical context from NERR archives: most Ivy commits from New England over the last ~10 years appear in the NERR top-100/final lists, but typically they are clustered in the 20–60 range rather than inside the top-15. Examples:

    • Max (Maxwell) Lorca-Lloyd — a Penn commit in the 2019 class — was listed inside the final New England top-30 (about #25 on the 2019 New England list). That shows Penn has landed higher-end NE prep talent before, but Lorca-Lloyd still ranked lower than Altman’s #13.

    • Chris Ledlum (Harvard, class of 2019) was an outlier for the Ivies — he ranked inside the New England top-10 in 2019 (Ledlum was top-10 New England / top-2 Massachusetts that cycle). That’s a useful precedent showing the Ivies can occasionally land top-10 New England prospects.

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AJ Brodeur was #14 in NERR. I think that’s Penn’s highest as a freshman. Recent Ivy recruits above Altman’s rank are Danny Wolf (11), Brown’s Nana (12), Ledlum, and Noah Kirkwood (12). Some recent transfers into the league were higher as high school seniors. Casey Simmons was #3. And of course TJ Power was #1.

Everyone rated that high has been at least a multi year starter. Some took a year to develop on the college level.

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Not to throw too much cold water on this but I either can’t read numbers anymore or he was dropped to 16 after I posted this (either plausible but I’m inclined to blame myself). Either way, I would note that previous years had a deeper group of HM commits and 2025’s last HM appears to be at 13.