Jon Rothstein gives promising Kentucky Basketball practice report
The College basketball insider had some good thoughts after watching the Cats practice.
College basketball is almost here.
With Midnight Madness events starting up across the country, one insider and reporter for the sport is paying visits to watch some of the top programs heading into the season.
Jon Rothstein, an insider for CBS Sports, watched the Kentucky Wildcats practice this week and had a report that the BBN should love to hear less than a month before the start of the season.
“The Wildcats have known commodities with Jaxson Robinson, Andrew Carr, and Drexel transfer Amari Williams, but the mystery surrounding Kentucky entering 2024-25 is the type of alignment that Mark Pope uses in the Wildcat backcourt to start the season,” Rothstein said.
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“There is a bevy of options at Pope’s disposal. Lamont Butler, Kerr Kriisa, Koby Brea, and Otega Oweh all look like potential starters for Pope, who has a brand-new team from last season. Kentucky looks like an NCAA Tournament team in 2025, but the makeup of the perimeter will be fascinating to watch from now until opening night on November 4.”
Obviously, hearing about the depth of the roster is nice, but hearing that this team looks like a tournament team at the moment should be music to our ears, especially after a complete rebuild.
We will have to see if they can put it together against real competition in just about a month, but at the moment, things seem to be in a good place.
Mark Pope is conducting a great experiment with UK men’s basketball
The fall official visit season is in full swing for class of 2025 men’s college basketball recruits, many of whom are still in the process of making list cuts and determining which schools they will be signing with. For better and worse, Mark Pope and Kentucky basketball have been major players in the recruiting space in recent weeks. Top prospects have been in Lexington on visits to the UK program, while others have removed the Wildcats from consideration. This weekend brings more of the same, only now there will be a pair of five-star recruits on the UK campus at the same time for their official visits. Starting on Friday, both five-star point guard Mikel Brown Jr. and five-star center Chris Cenac Jr. will be taking official visits. Both Brown and Cenac picked up Kentucky scholarship offers this summer from Pope and his new-look UK coaching staff. The pair are among several class of 2025 recruits still being pursued by Kentucky.
