Imagine having the hype around you that the basketball world has put on AJ Dybantsa and then playing this composed while exceeding expectations. Wow. Just… wow ...

The hype around AJ Dybantsa has been brewing for a while. On Monday night in Las Vegas, the BYU Cougar proved why. In his college debut, the freshman forward led his team to a 71-66 win over Villanova ...

“It felt good,” Dybantsa said of his performance in his first official NCAA game (h/t Jay Drew of the Deseret News). “It was definitely different from the exhibitions (against the Nebraska Cornhuskers ...

AJ Dybantsa is currently seven months into his college basketball career at BYU. He only started taking class at the start of the fall semester and they ...

AJ says his parents are strict. Education comes first. The result is a top NBA prospect who is thriving on the court and in ...

The No. 8 BYU Cougars passed their first test in the 2025-26 college basketball season in large part because of their prized recruit, freshman AJ Dybantsa. The first-year forward delivered the goods ...

Despite taking a narrow loss, the story of Saturday night’s BYU-UConn matchup in Boston was AJ Dybantsa. A native of the Boston area playing on the Celtics’ home floor, Dybantsa bounced back from a ...

Kevin Young’s BYU squad didn’t flinch when things tightened. His freshman star simply took the ball, drove to the rim, and finished the job. AJ Dybantsa scored 21 points in his first college game. It ...

AJ Dybantsa's name seems likely to be in the basketball headlines for a long time. The superstar freshman at BYU is just beginning his college basketball career. But he's already been a top recruit, ...

This article was first published in the ChurchBeat newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Wednesday night. Some cynics don’t like the NBA rule that allows college students to ...

Is top NCAA prospect AJ Dybantsa a perfect fit for the Boston Celtics? Such a question would have been irrelevant not all that long ago, but with the Celtics starting their season all over the place ...

BOSTON — While it was a slow start for AJ Dybantsa in his highly-anticipated Boston homecoming, that set the stage for his show in the second half. BYU’s comeback attempt fell just short to UConn, but ...