Syracuse Basketball: 5-star Alex Constanza 'excited' to play for legendary head coach

Five-star Alex Constanza, who holds a Syracuse basketball offer and has visited 'Cuse, will spend his senior year playing for one of the greatest coaches in the history of high school hoops.

Per Constanza's dad, all-around good guy Ed Constanza, his son will suit up in the 2025-26 season at the Spire Academy in Geneva, Ohio, near Cleveland. Earlier this spring, Spire named the legendary Kevin Boyle as its new director of basketball and head coach of its national team.

Boyle is a giant in high school hoops. He most recently won numerous national championships as the head coach of the powerhouse Montverde Academy in Montverde, Fla., an elite program that has seen some of its players recruited by Syracuse basketball coaches in recent years.

In the 2024-25, the 6-foot-8 Alex Constanza was electric for the Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Although the elite guard/small forward missed a handful of games this past term due to a broken wrist that required surgery, Constanza averaged 29.8 points, 11 rebounds, five assists and 1.8 blocks per encounter, according to his dad.

Top national analyst/scout Samad Hines recently, via his X account, published his super early preseason top 25 in high school basketball ahead of the 2025-26 campaign. Hines has Spire at No. 4 around the country.

Syracuse basketball 2026 5-star target Alex Constanza is switching schools for his senior season.

Constanza, who this spring has competed on the AAU circuit for the 17U squad of the Marietta, Ga.-based Team Scoot in the PUMA-sponsored PRO16 league, received a scholarship offer from the Orange in mid-January of 2024. Last October, he officially visited the 'Cuse, a trip that went well, his dad has told me.

A top-15 national prospect in his cycle, Constanza has also officially visited Illinois. His dad has told me that his son is eying fall visits to schools such as Arkansas, BYU, Ole Miss, Arizona State and Baylor. A second official visit to Syracuse basketball is also a possibility.

Ed Constanza says that it was a "mutual move" for his son to move on from Westminster, a school that his son "loves."

Playing at Spire will allow Alex Constanza "to improve and the opportunity to be coached by a legend in this space we call basketball. He is looking forward to the challenge and understands the commitment level and sacrifice it will take to be successful," his dad said to me via text messages.

Constanza also considered two other juggernaut high school hoops programs: Prolific Prep, which is relocating its campus from Napa Valley, Calif., to Fort Lauderdale, and the Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Va., where Syracuse basketball legend Carmelo Anthony recently was named the team's co-general manager of basketball operations.

Ultimately, Constanza gravitated toward what Spire has to offer and being a "part of this new beginning at Spire both for him and Coach Boyle." Constanza is "excited" for this opportunity and "looking forward to the challenge," his dad says.