Syracuse basketball 4-star target star player moves to Montverde, nation’s No. 1 team
Syracuse basketball 2025 four-star recruit Dante Allen will spend his senior year at the country’s premier high school program.
According to social media posts, the 6-foot-4 Allen is transferring to the powerhouse Montverde Academy in Montverde, Fla., which finished the 2023-24 season undefeated and won the high school national championship.
Allen, a top-100 overall player and a top-15 shooting guard in the rising senior cycle, received a scholarship offer from the Orange staff in late April of this year. Dating back to mid-April, he is one of at least five prospects in the 2025 class to pick up a ‘Cuse offer.
Since landing a Syracuse basketball offer, per media reports, the ‘Cuse staff has been in consistent contact with Allen, and I believe he’s a prospect to monitor for potentially taking an official visit to the Hill in the coming months.
Syracuse basketball 2025 four-star target Dante Allen is headed to Montverde.
In 2023-24, Montverde had an absolutely stacked roster as the Eagles didn’t lose a game and, in early April, won the annual Chipotle Nationals in Brownsburg, Ind., while finishing this past season as the consensus No. 1 squad nationwide.
Montverde’s 2023-24 line-up featured Duke commit Cooper Flagg, a five-star power forward who is ranked the No. 1 prospect around the country in the 2024 class. Three former ‘Cuse recruits also were key contributors to the Eagles’ success last term: 2024 five-star point guard Robert Wright III (signed with Baylor), 2024 five-star center Derik Queen (signed with Maryland), and 2024 four-star point guard Curtis Givens III (signed with LSU).
In 2024-25, Allen as a senior will face off against elite competition, as Montverde suits up in the country’s premier high school hoops conference, the 14-member Nike Elite Youth Basketball League Scholastic (“EYBL Scholastic”).
As a junior in 2023-24, Allen averaged 21.0 points, 7.8 rebounds, 3.4 steals and 3.0 assists per contest in helping lead the Riviera Preparatory School in Miami to its second consecutive Florida High School Athletic Association (“FHSAA”) Class 3A state tournament championship.
This spring, Allen has proven a top performer on the AAU circuit while playing for the 17U team of the Miami-based Nightrydas Elite in Nike’s EYBL league. Through four EYBL sessions, Nightrydas is 14-1 overall, and it will be one of the favorites to cut down the nets in July at the season-ending Peach Jam in North Augusta, S.C.
Last weekend, the EYBL held a session in Kansas City, Mo. During that session, according to the experts at The Circuit, Allen averaged 17.5 points, 3.3 assists and 2.3 rebounds per encounter, while getting named to The Circuit’s All-EYBL Session IV second team.
Earlier in May, when the EYBL held a session in Indianapolis amid an NCAA live period, Syracuse basketball head coach Adrian Autry was in attendance for at least one of Nightrydas’ games.
Beyond the Orange, Allen’s full offer sheet includes schools such as Michigan, Villanova, Memphis, Miami, Florida Gulf Coast, UCF, LSU, Illinois, Creighton, Georgetown, Marquette and Notre Dame.
In several recent interviews, Allen has noted a handful of suitors recruiting him the hardest these days, and the ‘Cuse has been mentioned as part of that group.
