The Huskies have an offer out for Jeremy Jenkins of Overtime Elite
The Washington Huskies men's basketball team still has zero signed players in the class of 2026.
That could change in the coming days. The Huskies are rumored and reported to be among the final teams being considered by top 2026 recruits such as Dylan Mingo and Tyran Stokes.
Even without a player committed to the program for 2026, Washington is still keeping an eye to the future.
According to a post on "X" from Sam Kayser (@KayserHoops), five-star 2027 power forward Jeremy Jenkins has named the Huskies as a team he's been in contact with.
The other teams Jenkins has said to be in communication with are the Oklahoma Sooners, Baylor Bears, Kentucky Wildcats, Indiana Hoosiers, Florida State Seminoles, Gonzaga Bulldogs and LSU Tigers.
Jenkins will plan official visits to the aforementioned programs in the near future.
Jenkins is a competitor in the Overtime Elite, which is a nine-team league for 16-20-year-olds that offers classes for basketball players to maintain their eligibility. Jenkins plays for the City Reapers.
According to the 247Sports Composite, the 6-foot-9, 245-pound junior is ranked the fifth-best power forward in the class, third best player in Georgia and 25th-best overall player in the class.
In 17 games this season, Jenkins has averaged 18.7 points per game on 50% shooting from the floor in addition to 2.4 assists and eight rebounds per game, respectively.
He received an invite to compete for the U16 Team USA national team May 2025 after participating in the team's minicamp April 2025.
Washington entered the 2025-26 season with an almost completely retooled team, that featured 13 newcomers on the 15-man roster.
The Huskies' '25 class featured six players, not including transfers: four-star point guard J.J. Mandaquit, four-star small forward Jasir Rencher, four-star shooting guard Courtland Muldrew, four star forward Hannes Steinbach, guard Brandon Roy and center/power forward Nikola Dzepina.
Dzepina didn't join the team until December.
The previous season, the team only had two players signed out of high school: guards Zoom Diallo and Jase Butler. Diallo is the only of the two still with the team.
Given the way head coach Danny Sprinkle has constructed the roster his first two seasons at the helm of the program, there might not be too much cause for concern about the lack of '26 commits.
That being said, there is a benefit to landing top recruits, even if they are one-and-done. If UW can land Jenkins, it would be a big boost to whatever the team's roster looks like in '27.
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