It’s Kansas Jayhawks basketball for highly touted Prolific Prep center Adkins
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- Davion Adkins committed to Kansas hours after emergency hernia surgery.
- Adkins, a 6-9 center, ranked top-50 nationally, averaged 11.0 points and 3.3 blocks.
- Kansas secured its fourth recent high school commit, expanding its 2026 recruiting haul.
Davion Adkins didn’t let a sudden stay in the hospital for emergency hernia surgery delay his college commitment announcement on Sunday night.
Adkins — who had the operation Saturday in Las Vegas, where his Prolific Prep basketball team had a Sunday game against St. John Bosco of California — just several hours after undergoing surgery pledged to play basketball at Kansas.
Adkins, a 6-foot-9, 205-pound high school senior center from Prolific Prep in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who according to the school will miss an estimated 3-4 weeks of basketball following surgery, chose the Jayhawks over Houston and Rutgers.
He made the announcement at halftime of the Dynamic Prep-Notre Dame Border League basketball game on ESPN2.
“It’s a hard decision to make,” Adkins said on the ESPN2 broadcast. “I can only choose one school out of 19 (offers). I cut it down to three. I’ll be going to Kansas.”
Adkins also at one point considered Auburn, Indiana, UCLA, Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kentucky and others.
“Going on my visit compared to other visits ... I saw it’s family oriented,” Adkins added of head coach Bill Self’s KU program in Lawrence.
A Dallas native, Adkins is ranked No. 24 in the recruiting class of 2026 by Rivals.com, No. 34 by 247sports.com and No. 46 by ESPN.com.
He told 247sports.com: “I love the culture they have. It’s a really heavy winning culture, My coach also had a great relationship with Bill Self, so it already felt like a family.”
Of Self, he said: “He’s not a yes man. He tells you the truth. He told me to my face what I need to work on, and I told him, ‘I got you. I’m going to do everything to get me on the floor.’
“You’re going to see me flying around getting blocks, getting rebounds, making winning plays. He (Self) sees me playing the 3, 4 or 5 in college. I’d rather play the 5 in college because I can kill any 5 I want to in college,” he told 247sports.com.
Adkins averaged 11.0 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.3 blocked shots per game while shooting 54.8% from the field at the NBPA Top 100 camp in South Carolina earlier this summer.
Adkins was the top-rated player in Texas prior to announcing plans to leave Dallas’ Faith Family Academy for Prolific Prep for his final year of high school basketball. Prolific Prep has relocated from Napa, California to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
“I like the way they (KU coaches) develop and send bigs, wings, and guards to the league (NBA), I know they could develop me really well based on their history,” Adkins told On3.com.
Adkins is the fourth high school player to commit to KU. All four commitments have come in the span of the last seven days. Three are from the class of 2026 and one is from the class of 2027.
Adkins is joined by Taylen Kinney, a 6-2, 185-pound senior point guard from the Overtime Elite program in Atlanta (originally from Newport, Kentucky) who committed to KU a week ago; Trent Perry, a 6-5, 190-pound senior combo guard from Link Academy, originally from Frisco, Texas who committed on Wednesday; and Javon Bardwell, a 6-foot-6, 175-pound junior combo guard from the Overtime Elite program in Atlanta. Bardwell committed Friday.
Kinney is ranked No. 13 in the recruiting class of 2026 by 247sports.com, No. 17 by ESPN.com and No. 22 by Rivals.com. Perry is ranked No. 77 in the class of 2026 by ESPN.com, No. 120 by 247sports.com and No. 139 by Rivals.com. Bardwell is ranked No. 13 in the recruiting class of 2027 by 247sports.com, No. 18 by Rivals.com and No. 40 by ESPN.com.
There’s a chance Bardwell will reclassify to 2026 and play at KU in the 2026-27 season.
“There might not have been a bigger presence at the front of the rim than Davion Adkins. The post player (with a 7-2 wingspan) is a supreme rim protector, not only showing a quick, explosive burst, but also excellent timing,” wrote recruiting analyst Jamie Shaw of Rivals.com after watching him compete at an AAU event in July.
“Adkins is a high-flyer, and while needing others to set up his opportunities, he takes a consolidated approach to creating his advantages. He will need to expand his shooting touch, become a threat from outside of 5-feet offensively, but the presence he brings on defense erases a lot of mistakes,” Shaw added.
In an interview with Zagsblog.com, Adkins said: “I’m a dog. I’m not going to give up. I play through everything, play through every little hit, every contact, every little bit of adversity and just keep playing.”
This story was originally published October 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM with the headline "It’s Kansas Jayhawks basketball for highly touted Prolific Prep center Adkins."
