{"id":220818,"date":"2025-09-12T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/220818\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:12:09","slug":"top-10-recruit-arafan-diane-no-1-ranked-center-down-to-5-schools-tar-heel-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/220818\/","title":{"rendered":"Top-10 recruit Arafan Diane, No. 1 ranked center, down to 5 schools &#8211; Tar Heel Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nPosted Sep 12, 2025<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nArafan Diane, the No. 1 ranked center in the 2026 class, has narrowed his list of school down to five. Moving forward, the 7-foot senior of Iowa United Prep will consider the Arkansas Razorbacks, Houston Cougars, Indiana Hoosiers, Kentucky Wildcats, and Virginia Cavaliers. Diane, originally from Guinea, is the No. 9 overall player in the class, according to Rivals.&#13;<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/news\/arafan-diane-down-to-5-schools-arkansas-houston-indiana-kentucky-virginia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>On3.com<\/b><\/a>)&#13;<\/p>\n<p><b>Related:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/college-basketball-recruiting.aspx\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">College Basketball Recruiting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article160945.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NC State Basketball Lands 4-Star Center Trevon Carter-Givens<\/a><br \/>Trevon Carter-Givens, a 4-star center in the 2026 class, has committed to NC State. The 6-foot-10 center from SoCal Academy chose the Wolfpack over USC&#8230;<br \/>Thu Sep 11, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article160929.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">247Sports 2026 Rankings Update: Post-summer shakeup features big moves within top 10<\/a><br \/>Making his debut inside the top five is Cameron Williams, a high upside big man who combines size, skill, athleticism, and mobility. Now measuring in&#8230;<br \/>Thu Sep 11, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article160911.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5-star PG Deron Rippey Jr. cancels Alabama visit this weekend<\/a><br \/>Deron Rippey Jr., one of the top point guards in the 2026 class, will no longer make the trip to Alabama this weekend for an&#8230;<br \/>Wed Sep 10, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article160902.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia Tech basketball lands third Class of 2026 commitment in 4-star guard Kaiden Bailey<\/a><br \/>Damon Stoudamire landed his second commitment of the day and third commitment in the 2026 basketball recruiting class Monday when Kaiden Bailey, the No. 117&#8230;<br \/>Tue Sep 9, 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aD.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Top-10 recruit Arafan Diane, No. 1 ranked center, down to 5 schools\" title=\"Top-10 recruit Arafan Diane, No. 1 ranked center, down to 5 schools\" onerror=\"this.style.display = 'none'\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0; overflow:hidden;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Posted Sep 12, 2025&#13; Arafan Diane, the No. 1 ranked center in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":220819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-220818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115191266931272887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}