For the last week, John Calipari has spoken like a man who plans on returning as Kentucky basketball’s head coach.
On Tuesday night, UK athletics director Mitch Barnhart confirmed that would be the case.
And because of this, Calipari has spoken extensively about his incoming 2024 recruiting class during each of his media opportunities since UK suffered an upset loss in the NCAA Tournament first round.
Just minutes after that defeat in Pittsburgh, Calipari’s somber postgame comments included a mention of his next group of UK freshmen.
“We have an unbelievable group coming in that I feel really good about,” Calipari said while answering a question about potentially changing his youth-heavy roster approach.
On Monday night during his final radio show of the 2023-24 season, Calipari again discussed several future Wildcats. It remains to be seen what the on-court roles will be for next season’s crop of UK freshmen: Clarity will arrive in the coming weeks and months as stay-or-go decisions are made by players from this season’s roster and UK pursues players from the NCAA transfer portal.
As Calipari prepares for his 16th season as head coach at Kentucky in 2024-25, here’s an in-depth look at the six first-year players he will be welcoming to Lexington later this year.
Of these players, four have signed their national letters of intent to play at Kentucky: Somto Cyril, Boogie Fland, Travis Perry and Jayden Quaintance. Both Karter Knox and Billy Richmond committed to UK after the fall signing period. Knox and Richmond are expected to sign with Kentucky in April.
Because Knox and Richmond haven’t singed their national letters of intent yet, UK and Calipari can’t comment on them.
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