{"id":280728,"date":"2025-10-06T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/280728\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:56:09","slug":"four-star-center-davion-adkins-commits-to-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/280728\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-star center Davion Adkins commits to Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By ADAM ZAGORIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Davion Adkins,<\/strong> the four-star Class of 2026 center from Prolific Prep (FL), has committed to, he told ZAGSBLOG ahead of his public announcement Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-9, 216-pound Adkins chose the Jayhawks over Houston and Rutgers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be taking my talents to the University of Kansas,\u201d he told ZAGSBLOG. \u201cI chose Kansas because of the relationships that my AAU coach had with the coaching staff and their plan for me to be an immediate impact on the court and help me on my path to get to the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked on ESPN what Kansas was getting in him, he said. \u201cThey\u2019ll get a dog, defender, scorer, they\u2019ll get everything they want. They\u2019ll get a national championship, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prolific Prep coach <strong>Ryan Bernard<\/strong>i said of Adkins:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavion has immense upside due to his ability to play inside and out. He impacts the game at a high level now and is a long way from his ceiling. We are thrilled for him as he makes his college decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adkins on Saturday underwent emergency surgery in Las Vegas for a sports hernia, and is expected to be sidelined 3-4 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Newly-minted Kansas commit <strong>Tay Kinney<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zagsblog.com\/2025\/09\/28\/five-star-guard-taylen-kinney-commits-to-kansas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said he was recruiting both Adkins and <strong>Tyran Stok<\/strong>es to join him.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a dog,\u201d Adkins told ZAGSBLOG earlier this year. \u201cI\u2019m not going to give up. I play through everything, play through every hit, every contact, every little hit, every little bit of adversity and just keep playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five-star wing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zagsblog.com\/2025\/10\/03\/top-20-class-of-2027-prospect-javon-bardwell-commits-to-kansas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Javon Bardwell<\/a><\/strong> also committed this week to play for the Jayhawks for the 2027-28 season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamZagoria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Follow Adam Zagoria on Twitte<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>r<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Follow ZAGSBLOGHoops on Instagram<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZagsBlog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>And Like ZAGS on Facebook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ADAM ZAGORIA Davion Adkins, the four-star Class of 2026 center from Prolific Prep (FL), has committed to,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":280729,"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-280728","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\/115324740231589327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280728","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=280728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}