Another Indiana basketball recruiting target in 2025 is off the table.

Braylon Mullins, the leading candidate for Indiana's 2025 Mr. Basketball Award, committed to UConn on Wednesday night.

The Greenfield Central star chose the Huskies over Indiana and North Carolina. He made his announcement live on 247Sports from the gym at Greenfield-Central.

Mullins' decision removes another highly touted prospect from the list of available prospects for the Hoosiers. Indiana welcomed the five-star guard for an official visit last month, the same weekend as Trent Sisley and Eric Reibe.

Sisley chose the Hoosiers and Reibe committed to UConn.

According to the 247Sports composite rankings, Mullins is considered the No. 23 prospect in the 2025 class.

Mullins' decision is a setback for Indiana, which has spent a lot of time recruiting Mullins in recent seasons. The Hoosiers offered him a scholarship more than a year ago. However, after a stellar spring and summer recruiting stint with Indiana Elite, his recruitment went national.

Mullins also had scholarship offers from Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Kansas, Michigan, Purdue and Duke.

As a junior at Greenfield-Central, Mullins led the program to a 24-1 record. He averaged 25 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.2 steals and shot 43 percent on 3s.

Indiana still has several prospects in its rising senior class. However, as prospects continue to disappear, it's becoming increasingly likely that the Hoosiers will have to enter the transfer portal market heavily next spring.

Indiana signed six players from the transfer portal last spring and added just one freshman, Bryson Tucker, to the 2025-26 roster.

In May, at Huber's Winery in Borden, Indiana, Mike Woodson said the days of signing a large group of high school players were over.

“It is what it is. You just don't know. I would love to build a team with high school kids, they stay with me for four years, man, but those days are over, man,” Woodson said. “You're going to get a player who's upset and says, 'Hey, I want more minutes.' I'm trying to put together a team where you don't have to worry about minutes. It has to be about the team. And you have to commit to the team because then everything else takes care of itself, man.

“And that goes for every coach in college basketball. That's what you have to go by, man, because everyone wants to play, everyone wants to be in the NBA, well, shit, that's not realistic. You can't play everyone for 40 minutes. Not everyone will play in the NBA. And that is the reality of a man who spent 34 years of his life there. It is what it is.”

While Woodson's high school recruiting classes in Indiana were small, he attracted numerous top-ranked prep prospects during his tenure in Bloomington.

Since Woodson arrived at IU in the spring of 2021, Indiana has signed five top-30 Recruiting Services Ranking Index (RSCI) recruits: Mackenzie Mgbako, Tucker, Jalen Hood-Schifino, Malik Reneau and Tamar Bates.

Submitted to: Braylon Mullins