College basketball expert believes Kentucky will be one of the best teams in the SEC
Many who project how the SEC will unfold this season on the hardwood don’t have the Kentucky Wildcats as one of the top teams in the conference. That is not the case, for Terrence Oglesby from the Field of 68 who recently put out his Way Too Early SEC Rankings, and he had the Wildcats second behind only Alabama.
This is the highest Kentucky has been ranked in any preseason ranking list all off-season. Some of the surprises on the list were Ole Miss being fourth and Auburn being ninth. Many project Auburn to be right up there with Alabama atop the SEC, but not Oglesby. Ole Miss is a team many pick to be better this season but not fourth in the conference.
The SEC top to bottom is going to be really good this season, meaning no game either at home or on the road is an easy victory for any team. This league will be so good that a team with five conference losses very well could be the top seed in the SEC Tournament.
It’s great to see Kentucky finally getting some respect from the national media because this team will be excellent. The Wildcats have a ton of depth all over the floor and balance when it comes to scoring and defending. This, plus knowing this team is made up of veteran players, should give Big Blue Nation hope for a top seed in the SEC Tournament and a run in the NCAA Tournament.
The Kentucky Wildcats will head into this season criminally underrated, but they will be one of the top teams in an elite SEC.
For the third straight recruiting cycle, John Calipari has gotten a commitment from the son of a player he coached at Memphis.
Following Adou Thiero in 2022 and D.J. Wagner in 2023, the Kentucky head coach has done it again.
On Thursday afternoon, UK men’s basketball received a commitment from class of 2024 wing Billy Richmond.
His commitment to the Cats came just hours before Kentucky was to tip off its annual rivalry game against Louisville, another program that had extended a scholarship offer to Richmond.
A 6-foot-5 prospect who is ranked by the Recruiting Services Consensus Index (RSCI) — which combines the rankings from the nation’s top recruiting services into one single metric — as the No. 29 overall player in the 2024 recruiting class, Richmond committed to UK from a small list of final college options that also included Alabama, LSU and Memphis.
In an interview with NBA insider Shams Charania, Richmond made his choice to come to Lexington.
“The reason I picked Kentucky is (a) great coaching staff. Calipari always keeps it real with me,” Richmond said. “That’s a big reason.”
Five-star recruit Billy Richmond of Camden, NJ., makes college decision among Alabama, Kentucky, LSU and Memphis:
The addition of Richmond boosts Kentucky’s 2024 recruiting class to five players: Richmond joins guards Boogie Fland and Travis Perry and centers Somto Cyril and Jayden Quaintance as incoming Wildcats for next season.
