Where Tennessee Basketball’s 2025 recruiting class is ranked after adding 5-star Nate Ament.

Tennessee Basketball’s 2025 recruiting class went from ranked No. 42 nationally all the way up to No. 9 after the addition of five-star small forward Nate Ament, the No. 3 overall player in the class.

Ament committed to Tennessee on Sunday, picking the Vols over Duke, Kentucky, Louisville and Arkansas, and signed on Monday. Tennessee’s class without Ament was ranked No. 42 overall, No. 13 in the SEC and had a class score of 89.84. With Ament, the class is now ranked No. 9 overall, No. 4 in the SEC and has a class score of 94.90.

Ament gives Tennessee four prep prospects signed in 2025, joining four-star shooting guard Amari Evans, four-star center Dewayne Brown and three-star point guard Troy Henderson. Tennessee has added two players from NCAA Transfer Portal so far The Vols have also signed two players out of the NCAA Transfer Portal so far in Maryland point guard Ja’Kobi Gillepsie and Vanderbilt power forward Jaylen Carey. Ament is the No. 3 overall player in the On3 ratings, the No. 2 small forward in the class and the No. 1 player in the state of Virginia. Evans, the 6-foot-5, 204-pound prospect out of Pittsburgh, is ranked No. 68 nationally, No. 20 at shooting guard and No. 7 in the state of Georgia, where he played in the Overtime Elite League in Atlanta.

The 6-foot-9, 235-pound Brown, out of Hoover, Ala., is ranked No. 100 overall. He’s the No. 10 center in the class and the No. 1 prospect in the state of Alabama. Henderson, who committed to Tennessee in March and signed last week, is ranked No. 248 overall. He’s the No. 34 point guard in the class and the No. 13 player in the state of Virginia. Gillespie is ranked as the No. 10 prospect in the NCAA Transfer Portal, according to On3, and Carey is ranked No. 59.

Tennessee still has three roster spots to fill to get to the full allotment of 13 scholarship players. Gillespie started all 36 games at Maryland this season, averaging 14.7 points and 4.8 assists in 31.6 minutes per game while shooting 45.3% from the floor and 40.7% from the 3-point line, where he made 87 of 214 attempts.

He’s a Greeneville, Tenn. native, who started his college basketball career at Belmont, averaging 17.2 points, 4.2 assists and 2.2 steals in 31.4 minutes per game as a sophomore at Belmont in 2023-24. Carey, the 6-foot-8, 245-pound sophomore, averaged 8.0 points and 5.7 rebounds in 20.2 minutes per game at Vanderbilt this season.