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UConn Basketball’s 2027 Recruiting Class Is the Best in the Country, and the Big East Should Be Nervous

By Wesley Donovan • October 5, 2026 • 3 min read

Two years removed from back-to-back national championships, the going theory around UConn was that Dan Hurley had already peaked — that 2023 and 2024 were a closing window, not a new baseline. Jordan Page spent Sunday night making that theory look foolish.

The 6-foot-5 wing out of Raleigh committed to UConn on October 4th, picking the Huskies over North Carolina, NC State and a handful of other blue bloods who assumed proximity and tradition would matter more than they did. ESPN’s own report on the commitment had Page checking in at No. 14 overall and No. 10 per 247Sports in the 2027 class, not as a developmental project but as a top-15 national recruit walking into a program two years removed from its last title.

That alone would be a nice get. It’s not the whole story. Page is now the second five-star UConn has landed in this class, joining NaVorro Bowman Jr., the No. 12 prospect in the country according to ESPN, a commitment Yahoo Sports covered as proof UConn is quietly assembling the best class in the country. Recruiting insider Joe Tipton broke the news first:

Two five-stars in one cycle isn’t a rounding error. ESPN’s Jeff Borzello flagged just how rare it actually is:

This is UConn’s first class with two ESPN five-stars in at least 20 years — pick whatever era you think you remember clearly, it wasn’t that one.

That’s a long wait to end, and it’s ending while Hurley’s roster still has two championship banners going up in the rafters. Programs don’t luck into that timing. They recruit into it.

Page explained his reasoning during a commitment announcement on NBATV with Adam Finkelstein, and it wasn’t subtle. He said Hurley sold him on “hats and rings,” on lottery picks and championships, on joining a winning culture instead of trying to build one from scratch. For a kid who had Chapel Hill on his visit list, that’s not nothing to say out loud, on air, with UNC still in the room.

Finkelstein broke down why Page specifically was the fit UConn targeted all along:

Now the caveat, because it’s real: commits decommit. Kids flip. Coaches leave, NIL packages get rewritten overnight, and an October verbal from a junior in high school is not a legally binding anything. Recruiting rankings shuffle constantly between now and signing day, and the 2027 class doesn’t finalize for another 15 months. St. John’s, Marquette and Villanova aren’t handing UConn the Big East because two teenagers picked Storrs over a couple of campus visits.

Hurley is using those two championship banners as the pitch itself, and the 2027 class is reacting like teenagers who grew up watching parades, not rebuilds. The Big East spent two years bracing for a post-championship hangover that never arrived — NOBODY bothered telling the next generation of recruits to wait for one. Marquette and Villanova can keep selling player development. UConn is now selling results with receipts, and every coach left in the conference should already be dialing whatever five-star is still available before the next commitment lands. The gap the league assumed would close by now is instead getting wider, one five-star at a time. Keep up with the rest of the college basketball coverage as National Signing Day approaches. This class isn’t done growing.

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