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LEXINGTON — Cross one potential candidate off the list for coach Mark Pope and Kentucky basketball’s 2025 recruiting class.
Braylon Mullins, one of the top shooters in the 2025 cycle, cut his list of finalists to three Tuesday. UK was not among that trio.
Mullins will choose among Indiana, North Carolina and UConn.
The Wildcats once were considered one of the leading contenders — if not the odds-on favorites — to land Mullins. Instead, he’ll play his college ball elsewhere.
When Mullins trimmed his list to 10 schools, Kentucky was one of them along with Alabama, Duke, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, North Carolina, Purdue, Tennessee and UConn. An official visit to UK had been planned for the weekend of Oct. 26; the trip would have coincided with the football team’s home game versus Auburn. Now, that OV is off Mullins’ itinerary.
Per the 247Sports Composite, Mullins is a five-star recruit, ranked No. 23 in the 2025 class. His ranking among the major recruiting databases has been on a meteoric rise after superlative showings in AAU play this past summer. Earlier this year, Mullins was No. 73 nationally in the 247Sports Composite rankings — 50 spots below his current placing.
Mullins is viewed as one of the best pure shooters in the 2025 cycle.
Per Kentucky Sports Radio, Mullins connected on “47.3% of his shots from deep across 17 games played during the spring/summer.” And he achieved that efficient percentage while averaging 7.7 3-point attempts per game for Indiana Elite, which plays on the Adidas 3SSB circuit.
One of his Indiana Elite teammates is Malachi Moreno, a five-star center who on Aug. 16 became Kentucky’s first 2025 commitment. After Moreno’s pledge, he made a spirited pitch for Mullins to join him in Lexington.
“We did have that in mind,” Moreno told KSR. “I knew he was going to be great after — I mean he blew up the last three summers, I just knew he was going to be great. Once we had similar offers I was like, ‘Yo, we actually have an opportunity to be…
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Author : The Courier Journal
Publish date : 2024-09-26 09:16:48
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