Dual-Sport Kentucky Basketball Target Announces In-State Transfer…

Coach Mark Pope brought in a ton of talent via the transfer portal for the 2024-25 season, and all of these players have Big Blue Nation excited. When listening to what the national media has to say, fans are hearing a lot about Jaxson Robinson, Amari Williams, Koby Brea, and Lamont Butler. These names are being floated around for good reason, but the name the national media isn’t talking a lot about is Andrew Carr.

Last season at Wake Forest, Carr averaged 13.5 points per game while shooting 37.1% from deep. The 6’10 power forward also pulled down 6.8 board per game last season for the Demon Deacons, so he isn’t afraid to help on the boards.

will be the case now that he is at Arkansas.

Coach Calipari just landed an elite recruit in the 2025 class, Darius Acuff Jr, who is one of the best guards in the class. Shortly after this commitment, some college basketball personalities began to say all of Kentucky’s recruiting success during the Calipari era was solely because of Coach Cal and had nothing to do with the Kentucky brand. That is just blatantly not true. Now to give Coach Calipari credit, he is the best recruiter in college basketball, and he will continue to succeed on the trail in Fayetteville, as he has already proved, but Kentucky sells itself easily.

Coach Mark Pope will be able to prove this to be true when he starts to land elite players in the 2025 class and beyond. Coach Pope was not an elite recruiter when he came to Kentucky, but he isn’t selling himself to recruits. He is selling the history of Kentucky basketball, and hearing from some elite players in this class, this strategy is working so far.

Coach Calipari is a legend, and he will succeed at Arkansas, but to say that Coach Cal was the only reason that Kentucky had recruiting success during his time in Lexington is just in no way true.