An exciting weekend for Arizona Athletics just keeps getting better! After Football secured a bowl game berth with its sixth win of the season over Kansas and Triathlon took home its second national championship in as many years, Tommy Lloyd made a 2026 recruiting splash. On Sunday, 2026 four-star small forward Cameron Holmes committed to Arizona Men’s Basketball.
The 6-foot-6, 195-pound Holmes is a local product from Goodyear, Arizona, playing his high school ball at Millennium High School. He held offers from 17 programs, including Arizona State, Baylor, Kansas, Oregon, TCU, UCLA, and more, but narrowed his top three choices to Arizona, Dayton, where his brother DaRon Holmes II played, and North Carolina last week before ultimately choosing the Wildcats. He has an official visit to Tucson scheduled for December 6 when Arizona hosts Auburn.
Per 247Sports, Holmes is the No. 4 player from the Grand Canyon State, 14th-best small forward, and No. 33 overall player in the class of 2026.
Cameron Holmes is the first player to commit to Arizona since Tommly Lloyd assembled the No. 2 nationally ranked recruiting class that featured five-stars Koa Peat, Brayden Burries, and Dwayne Aristode, as well as Bryce James a year ago. The 2025 recruiting class was also the highest-rated class in Arizona Men’s Basketball program history.
Holmes is the first piece in what will likely be a largely brand new roster for Tommy Lloyd and Co. in 2026. Veterans Jaden Bradley and Anthony Dell’Orso will have exhausted their eligibility, while freshmen Burries and Peat are expected to declare for the NBA Draft. Regardless of how the roster shapes up in 2026, Tommy Lloyd has once again proven that he can recruit high-level domestic talent with his first big pickup in the ’26 recruiting class.