{"id":545035,"date":"2026-01-18T17:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/545035\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:21:12","slug":"5-star-pg-dylan-mingo-sets-commitment-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/545035\/","title":{"rendered":"5-star PG Dylan Mingo sets commitment date"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dylan Mingo<\/a>, a five-star point guard in the 2026 class, is ready to announce his college decision. The 6-foot-5 senior out of Long Island Lutheran (NY) will make his commitment on Thursday, January 22nd, a source told Rivals. Mingo will decide between his four finalists \u2014 Baylor<\/a>,\u00a0North Carolina<\/a>,\u00a0Penn State<\/a>, and\u00a0Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mingo is the No. 1 ranked point guard and the No. 2 overall player in the 2026 class, according to Rivals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prior to cutting his list down, Mingo also visited Miami, UConn, and Alabama.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mingo talks programs involved\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a previous interview with Rivals, Dylan Mingo discussed each of the schools pursuing him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UNC: \u201cHubert Davis<\/a>, he reaches out a lot. He pretty much just talks about how this year they should be really good, how they\u2019re going to get things back on a UNC level. He tells me how he could see me coming in there playing as a freshman.\u201d<\/p>\n

BAYLOR: \u201cThe Baylor visit was great. I mean, my old teammate\u00a0VJ Edgecombe<\/a>\u00a0went there. So just speaking to him a lot about how it was and how he developed there. \u2029And it was fun just seeing all the analytics and how much they get people to the NBA and how much they raise people\u2019s draft stock.\u201d<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON: \u201cWhen I went on that visit, I saw how seriously they are taking basketball. This year, they have a really good team and they put a lot of time into their team.\u201d<\/p>\n

PENN STATE: \u201cI loved my Penn State visit, especially because my brother was there.\u00a0Coach (Mike) Rhoades<\/a>\u00a0is going to get things rolling. They have a solid team this year. \u2029So it\u2019s fun to see what they\u2019re going to do this year. That atmosphere was crazy. \u2029They showed a lot of love, especially for me and my brother. So me and my brother, teaming up for college, that would be great.\u00a0Kayden (Mingo)<\/a>\u00a0is a captain as a freshman, so that\u2019s really big.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mingo also discussed in a previous interview what he\u2019s looking for in a school.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to play for a coach that values me a lot,\u201d Mingo said. Well, not even just the coach, the whole program. I want to have a strong relationship with the coaches, especially the head coach, and the whole coaching staff.\u00a0And a winning program. I\u2019d like to compete for a championship, and also a program that\u2019s willing to play a freshman.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on Mingo<\/p>\n

National Recruiting Analyst Jamie Shaw recently had this to say about Mingo:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the move from No. 3 to No. 2 was not a significant one by the numbers, it was a move that netted\u00a0Dylan Mingo\u00a0an extra star. The long-armed, 6-foot-5 lead guard is the youngest player in the updated Rivals150 ranking. He is also seeing a lot of production come his way. The crafty PG earned MVP honors of the NBPA Top 100 Camp this summer, and averaged 19.3 points, 7.8 rebounds, 2.6 assists, and 2.3 steals per game in Nike\u2019s EYBL Circuit play this summer. He is one of the top perimeter defenders in the class, and he can consistently put pressure on the paint and deliver passes from different levels at different angles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dylan Mingo, a five-star point guard in the 2026 class, is ready to announce his college decision. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,12064],"class_list":{"0":"post-545035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dylan-mingo-26-long-island-lutheran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}