A Big Ten team is currently viewed as the favorite for a 2026 five-star point guard leading a New York program.
Big Ten Team Has Buzz for Five-Star Point Guard
Last weekend, Washington hosted the country’s No. 1 point guard in the 2026 cycle, Dylan Mingo, on an official visit, according to recruiting services. Following that trip, the Rivals Recruiting Prediction Machine currently has Washington out in front for the 6-foot-5 Mingo, a standout rising senior at the powerhouse Long Island Lutheran High School in Brookville, N.Y.
As Mingo visits other suitors, another team could move past Washington as the front-runner to prevail for him. Last month, Mingo told Rivals national analyst Jamie Shaw that he is eyeing visits to other schools such as Virginia, Baylor, UConn, Miami, N.C. State, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Alabama.
Earlier this week, Shaw forecast that Mingo will ultimately pick either Baylor or UConn, although his confidence level is low, at 20 percent. Shaw writes that Mingo’s recruitment is fairly open at this point, noting that additional squads to watch may include Alabama and Penn State, where his older brother, Kayden, is a freshman guard.
In recent days, Rivals refreshed its 2026 national rankings, holding Mingo in high regard. He currently checks in at No. 3 nationally, No. 1 at point guard and No. 1 in New York within his class. Other recruiting websites also have Mingo as a top-10 national prospect and one of the top point guards/combo guards around the country in the 2026 cycle.
In total, Mingo holds nearly 20 scholarship offers. Other teams who have offered him include Syracuse, St. John’s, Providence, Missouri, Florida State, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Louisville, Illinois and Dayton.
Dylan Mingo Eyes All-American Senior Season
As a junior during the 2024-25 campaign, Mingo helped guide Long Island Lutheran to a top-five national ranking and a berth in April’s Chipotle Nationals in Fishers, Ind., near Indianapolis. In the upcoming 2025-26 season, Mingo will likely contend for All-America honors, and Long Island Lutheran should be in the mix for another bid to the Chipotle Nationals, an annual season-ending tournament that crowns a national champion in high school hoops.
Mingo and the Crusaders are a member of the prestigious Nike Elite Youth Basketball League Scholastic (“EYBL Scholastic”), which is arguably the country’s premier high school hoops conference. Thus, Mingo will battle top-flight competition this coming season.
This past May, national analyst/scout Samad Hines published a way-too-early top 25 in high school basketball for the 2025-26 campaign. Hines slotted Long Island Lutheran at No. 5 overall.
This spring and summer on the AAU circuit, analysts and scouts anointed Mingo as a top performer as he competed for the 17U team of the Bronx, N.Y.-based PSA Cardinals in Nike’s EYBL league. In the EYBL’s regular season, Mingo averaged 19.2 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game. He shot 43% from the field and 76% from the free-throw line.
In late June, the scouting experts at The Circuit named Mingo their defensive MVP and to their All-EYBL first team for the Nike circuit’s regular season.
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