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The commitments in the transfer portal keep coming for new Kentucky coach Mark Pope after the Wildcats landed West Virginia guard Kerr Kriisa and Dayton sharpshooter Koby Brea — one of the top 3-point shooters in college basketball.
Brea, who led Division I by shooting 49.8% on 3-pointers last season after making 100 of his 201 attempts from deep, is the sixth transfer Pope has landed this offseason.
The news of his commitment comes less than 24 hours after the program landed Oklahoma State big man Brandon Garrison, who was ranked as the No. 24 available player in the transfer portal by CBS Sports’ David Cobb.
Kentucky landed Oklahoma’s Otega Oweh and Wake Forest’s Andrew Carr from the transfer portal last weekend and added San Diego State star guard Lamont Butler to the 2024-25 roster from the transfer portal last week.
Butler, the 2023-24 Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year, was the second transfer portal commitment Pope landed this month. Earlier this month, Drexel star forward Amari Williams committed to the Wildcats. Williams, a three-time CAA Defensive Player of the Year, was the second newcomer UK landed since Pope’s arrival after Collin Chandler flipped his commitment from BYU to Kentucky.
Chandler, a member of the 2022 recruiting cycle, spent the last two years on a Mormon mission. He was Pope’s highest-rated signee (No. 33 overall) during his tenure at BYU.
With Kentucky star freshman Reed Sheppard declaring for the NBA Draft and Joey Hart transferring to Ball State, the Wildcats have zero returning scholarship players remaining.
Four-star guard Billy Richmond decommitted from the Wildcats’ once-heralded recruiting class a few hours after Chandler committed to the Wildcats. Chandler’s commitment comes after several members of UK’s 2024 recruiting class re-opened their recruitments following the departure of coach John Calipari for Arkansas. Travis Perry…
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Author : Cameron Salerno
Publish date : 2024-05-27 16:29:03
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