Alijah Arenas, the No. 5 ranked prospect in the national junior class, will reclassify and be included in the 2025 player rankings once the necessary paperwork is submitted. This is significant news not only for the rankings but also shakes up the top players available for the 2025 cycle.

A 6-foot-6 scoring swingman who attends Chatsworth (Calif.) High, Arenas could very well be the top-ranked junior recruit if he still were a member of the 2026 class. He looked the part of a top-three talent in high school basketball at The Classic at Damien and should undoubtedly be ranked as the No. 1 shooting guard in the national senior class.

“My family and I made the decision when it got to my junior year,” Arenas said on reclassifying. “We saw the options and wanted to take the big step of looking towards college. I am trying to get there and to the league early.”

During his weekend at The Classic at Damien, assistant coaches from Arizona, Kentucky, and USC were in the stands watching him put on a show. Those three programs are the schools that Arenas said are becoming his main focus.

“Those three schools are the ones that do the best job at making me feel like family,” Arenas said. “They are the three that I have been keying in on along with a lot of others.”

Arenas spoke on each contender with 247Sports: