NCAA Basketball Recruiting: List of early contenders for 4-star 2025 C Eric Reibe

Harvard Crimson

The Crimson will be rebuilding after losing stars Malik Mack and Chisom Okpara to the portal. But Coach Tommy Amaker continues to get quality prospects, including class of 2025 top-50 guard commit, Elzie Harrington. Reibe would be the next great big man who’d be able to dominate the Ivy League out the gate.

In today’s NCAA Basketball world, it’s not super realistic to see someone like Reibe stay all four years at Harvard when power conference programs will certainly have interest. However, starting and having a big role as a freshman for the Crimson would be preferred to coming off the bench behind someone else at a bigger school.

Iowa Hawkeyes

Coach Fran McCaffery has had great success with forwards developing into offensive stars, including former National Player of the Year, Luka Garza. The latest example is Owen Freeman, a standout freshman big man who averaged 10.6 ppg and 6.6 rpg last season. 

With Payton Sandfort leaving after next season, Iowa could use someone like Reibe to have an instant impact to keep them competitive. They may not be as good as other options but he’d have a good shot at putting up big numbers here.

Kentucky Wildcats

At BYU, Coach Mark Pope was known for having a modern offensive system, with the frontcourt players able to space the floor. So Reibe would be a nice fit to the program. It’s also an option where all of the transfer forwards on the team are seniors, outside of former OK State big man, Brandon Garrison.

Reibe would definitely find a role at Kentucky and Coach Pope is used to prospects with international backgrounds. The only question here is which frontcourt players would join him in the 2025 class.