Kohl Rosario #23 of the YNG Dreamerz shoots during an OTE League game on Friday, December 6, 2024 at OTE Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Mike Lawrence/Overtime)

After a long period without an addition to the Kansas men’s basketball roster, the Jayhawks are on the board once again.

Kohl Rosario, a 6-foot-5 shooting guard from Miami who attends Moravian Prep in Hudson, North Carolina, announced his commitment to KU in an Instagram post on Tuesday. He is reclassifying to the class of 2025 and will join the Jayhawks immediately ahead of next season.

Rosario is a fast-rising four-star prospect who received nine scholarship offers between May 19 and May 29. He had just concluded his season in Nike’s Elite Youth Basketball League, where he averaged 14.2 points and 3.2 rebounds while going 20-for-45 (44.4%) from beyond the arc, and then he scored 30 points on 10-for-10 shooting in a game at the Adidas NextGen EuroLeague in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, on May 24.

The programs offering scholarships to Rosario included KU as well as Duke and North Carolina, and Rosario ultimately picked the Jayhawks over an array of other schools he had either already visited or was expected to visit, such as Baylor, Duke, Florida State, Miami and Oregon. Rosario’s trip to Lawrence took place last week.

Rosario was originally a member of the high school class of 2025 at Florida Christian School before moving into the class of 2026, and now he is returning to 2025. It’s similar to the move Johnny Furphy, another late riser, made to join KU in the summer of 2023.

In doing so, Rosario gives KU a guard with shooting acumen — something KU coach Bill Self had explicitly stated earlier in June that he was still looking for, along with a backup big man — not to mention a healthy dose of high-flying athleticism. Rosario will join Loyola-Chicago transfer Jayden Dawson among the Jayhawks’ primary outside shooting options on the 2025-26 roster.

Prior to his EYBL showing, Rosario played for YNG Dreamerz in Overtime Elite during the 2024-25 campaign, the same league in which current Jayhawks Samis Calderon and Bryson Tiller had taken part. Rosario averaged 15.7 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.8 steals per game during the regular season, numbers that dipped slightly in the playoffs to 13.6, 4.9, 1.1 and 1.6.

KU now essentially has a five-man freshman class with Rosario, Calderon, the early enrollee Tiller, top prospect Darryn Peterson and area recruit Corbin Allen, who prior to Rosario’s commitment was the most recent addition to the Jayhawks’ roster when he signed officially on May 20.

In the month since, KU lost out on some high-profile targets, including international wing Dame Sarr, who picked Duke, and Texas Tech transfer forward Darrion Williams, who chose N.C. State. The Jayhawks have been involved with a series of international big men, as well as Rosario and Northwestern Oklahoma State transfer Camron McDowell, who also visited campus.

Right now, KU’s roster is expected to feature 11 scholarship players with the five freshmen plus transfers Dawson, Melvin Council Jr. and Tre White and returnees Flory Bidunga, Elmarko Jackson and Jamari McDowell.

The Jayhawks are limited to 14 total players this year as a result of the House v. NCAA settlement in combination with a penalty from the Independent Accountability Resolution Process. KU has until July 6 to designate any players (walk-ons) who would have lost their roster spot as a result of the new limits; these players will be exempt from the total number for the remainder of their careers.